Norman C. Melvin III (born July 11, 1950)[1] is a botanist and plant ecologist.
From 1990 to 1995 he was employed in Laurel, Maryland as a State Plant Ecologist by the USDA's Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS).
From 1995 to 2004 he was a botanist/plant ecologist at the NCRS Wetland Science Institute[2] (which the NRCS created in 1994).
In 2004 the NCRS underwent reorganization and replaced the Wetland Science Institute by the Wetland Technology Development Team (located in Fort Worth, Texas).
As Team Leader, he served as the national representative of the NCRS on issues related to the botany and ecology of wetlands.