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Service

Faculty are expected to contribute to the running of their academic disciplines, departments, universities, and, sometimes, communities.  Here are some of the ways I have served.

 

Academic Disciplines:

  • Co-Editor-in-Chief, Aeolian Research, 2009-2021

  • Moderator of Facebook page for International Society for Aeolian Research.

  • Moderator of Facebook page: The Scientific Endeavor.

  • Secretary/Treasurer of the International Society for Aeolian Research, 2009-2019.

  • Started and moderated GEOMORPHLIST, an e-mail distribution service, for the International Association of Geomorphologists, 1993-1999.

  • Secretary/Treasurer and then Chair of the Geomorphology Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers from 1997 to 1999.

  • Co-organizer of ICAR5/GCTE-SEN Joint Conference (International Wind Erosion Conference), Texas Tech University, July 2002. Here are the Proceedings.

  • Peer reviewer for dozens of journal articles, research proposals and textbooks

 

Department:

  • Department Chair, 2013-2018.

  • Graduate Advisor for Geography, 2019 to present.

  • I have served on and chaired many search committees for faculty.

  • I have been on many Third Year Review and Tenure and Promotion committees for faculty.

 

College and University:

  • Dean’s representative for many PhD defenses

  • Past member of Faculty Library Committee, Texas Tech University

  • Served as advisor for Multidisciplinary Science Masters Program, 2000-2006

  • Advisor for the “Environmental Evaluation” Interdisciplinary Master’s Program

  • Faculty Fellow of ICASALS, The International Center for Arid and Semiarid Lands Studies, Texas Tech University

 

Community

I have worked with local science teachers in several ways:

  • I served as advisor for the Multidisciplinary Science Master’s Program for several years and taught IS 5301 Nature of Science for Teachers for that program and a similar MS program called Middle School Math and Science

  • I taught workshops on the GLOBE Program (helping K-12 teachers get their students outdoors to learn environmental science) www.globe.gov 

  • I have served as judge at many science fairs

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