Service

Mission

I professionally serve in various capacities with many organizations. In addition to the direct roles listed below, I serve as: outreach member to ESF initiatives in K-12 activities, faculty mentoring, and professional development; advisor to many students, our junior faculty, and environmentally-oriented community groups; reviewer of approximately ten scholarly articles in a wide-range of national and international journals each year; reviewer of approximately 15 proposals to local, state, federal and international agencies each year, and committee member on several departmental, a few college and cross-institutional initiatives. I am interested in both lending my expertise in water resources and ecological engineering to assist committees, communities, and institutions and in lending my time to learn from and assist others in addressing environmental stewardship needs.

Roles & Organizations

• Faculty Co-Advisor for Engineers Without Borders with a Honduras focus
• Associate Editor for Journal of River Basin Management
• Editorial Board for Hydrological Processes
• Faculty Co-Advisor for Salt City Chapter of American Water Resources Association
• Daily Weather Observer for NOAA NWS for SUNY ESF reporting
• Trainer of NOAA River Forecast Center personnel in Fluvial Geomorphology
• Graduate Curriculum Coordinator for SUNY ESF Department of ERFE
• Adjunct Faculty Advisor for SU - ESF Chapter of Habitat for Humanity
• Adjunct Board Member of Project Watershed in CNY
• Interim Management Committee with UNESCO's Hydrology for Environment, Life & Policy
• Member of SUNY ESF Faculty Committees such as HSS which orients around watersheds

Weather
In June of 2002 a small group at ESF launched an ESF Live Weather on the Internet, which compliments the data gathered by multiple remote stations and other meteorological links

Volunteering
From June of 1990 to September of 1992, I lived and worked in Honduras as a Peace Corps aspirant and volunteer. I am much indebted to the generous people of Honduras for providing me with a welcoming, enlightening, and enriching experience. While in Trujillo, Honduras I performed a tremendous diversity of duties. A primary project was to work with the Honduras Forestry Agency, a Canadian development organization, the UNESCO group, the Trujillo municipality, and many local leaders and educators, to research and establish two protected natural areas within a coastal Caribbean watershed. A concurrent step was to foster a local group to manage these areas, essentially an effort toward sustaining our work and placing myself out of a job.