Cornelia Mutel

Ecologist Cornelia F. Mutel is the author of Fragile Giants: A Natural History of the Loess Hills (Iowa, 1989) and The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa (Iowa, 2008) and the editor of A Watershed Year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008 (Iowa, 2010), among many other books. She is Senior Science Writer at IIHR–Hydroscience & Engineering at the University of Iowa College of Engineering. She lives in rural Iowa City, Iowa.