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I. Service, Honors and Awards Professional Activities
Offices and committee memberships in professional organizations
- Served on Editorial Board of AEES Technical Notes (2004-present).
- Vice
Chair of the Ecological Engineering Committee for the American Society of
Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) (2006-2007)
Secretary of the Ecological Engineering Committee for the American Society of
Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) (2005-2006)
Chair of the Organizing Committee for the Third Annual Meeting of the
American Ecological Engineering Society meeting (2002-03)
Chair of By-laws Committee, American Ecological Engineering Society
(2001-2004)
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Other non-University committees, commissions, panels
- Co-organizer of Fourth Biennial Emergy Research Conference, Gainesville,
FL (2006)
Co-organizer of Third Biennial Emergy Research Conference, Gainesville, FL
(2004)
Co-chaired session on Ecological Machinery at 4th Annual AEES meeting,
Fayetteville, AR (2004)
Panelist for the "East St. Louis Syntegration" sponsored by Center for Economic
and Social Justice and Office of Illinois State Representative, Wyvette Young,
East St. Louis, IL (2002)
Co-organizer of Second Biennial Emergy Research Conference, Gainesville, FL
(2001)
Organizing Committee of the South Texas Environmental Conference, Corpus
Christi, TX (1999-2001).
Founding member of Organizing Committee for the Rio Grande Valley
Environmental Conference, Weslaco, TX (2000- 2001).
Co-organizer of First Biennial Emergy Research Conference, Gainesville, FL
(1999)
Paid consultancies
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Technical reviewer for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency draft report,
"Emergy methods for regional evaluations of the State of West Virginia." (2003)
Consultant to the Universidade de Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul on Strategic
Environmental Assessment. Collaborator: Professor Dr. Vito Comar. (2002)
Proposal reviewer
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Proposals reviewed
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Southwest Center for Environmental Research
and Policy (SCERP)
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Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station
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Professional Memberships
- American Ecological Engineering Society (2001-present, Founding Member)
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (2004-present)
International Society for Industrial Ecology (2001-present)
Society of Wetlands Scientists (2005-present)
International Ecological Engineering Society (1995-2000)
Ecological Society of America (1997-98)
Forest Products Society (1997-98);
International Society for the Systems Sciences (1998)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (1996)
American Water Resources Association (1996)
Southeastern Estuarine Research Society (1996)
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University
- Environmental Science and Policy Program Steering Committee (2003-present)
- Center for Integrative Environmental Research (2005-present)
- Maryland Sea Grant College Research Prospectus meeting (2005)
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
- 'AGNR101' course development committee (2004-2005)
- Graduation Marshall for NRMT program (2001-2006)
Department of Environmental Science & Technology (UMCP)
- Marketing Committee (2006)
- Search committee for Information Technology staff (2006)
- Department of Biological Resources Engineering (UMCP)
- Reorganization Committee (2005-2006)
- Library Liaison (2003-2006)
- Curriculum Committee (2004-2005)
- Graduate Review Committee (2001-03)
- Faculty Review Committee (2002-03)
- Holiday Party Committee (Chair: 2001, 2004)
- Maryland Open House Tours (2001-02)
- Ecological Engineering Curriculum Committee (2001-02)
- Natural Resources Management Program Review Committee (2001-03)
- Peer Teaching Evaluation (Adel Shirmohammadi, 2002)
Department of Environmental Engineering (TAMU-Kingsville)
- Committee to establish a Ph.D. in environmental engineering at TAMUK (1999-2001).
- Developed Ph.D. curriculum and courses to establish the first
doctoral degree in engineering in South Texas.
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Faculty Search Committee for Assistant Professor of environmental engineering
(2000).
Reviewed vitas, interviewed candidates, hired Dr. Alvaro Martinez.
- Faculty Search Committee for Associate/Full Professor of environmental
engineering (2001).
Reviewed vitas, interviewed candidates, hired Dr. Ni Bin Chang as
Full Professor.
- Committee to establish the South Texas Environmental Institute (1999-2001).
Responsible for strategic planning, development of ecological and
sustainable development focus areas, presentations to
external advisory board. Texas state legislature established
STEI in 2001.
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