Reviewer of Scientific Journals

I have reviewed manuscripts for Journal of Wildlife Management, Northeast Wildlife, Wildlife Society Bulletin, American Midland Naturalist, The Condor, Journal of Field Ornithology, Urban Ecosystems, and Proceedings, Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences.
 

Involvement in Professional Organizations

The Wildlife Society (National, Northeast and Southeast Sections, and Maryland-Delaware and National Capital Chapters): Member, Urban Wildlife Committee, 1981-present, Chair, 1984-1986; Chair, Urban Wildlife Working Group, 1999-2000; Co-editor, Urban Wildlife News, the newsletter of the Urban Wildlife Working Group, 2002-present; Secretary-Treasurer, Maryland Chapter, 1983, President-Elect, 1984, President, 1985-86.

I am also a member of the American Society of Mammalogists, Association of Field Ornithologists, Wilson Ornithological Society, International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Wildlife Management Institute.

State and Local Activities

Appointed to State of Maryland’s Non-lethal Wildlife Management Task Force, 2000-2001.

Governor appointment to Maryland Wildlife Advisory Commission, 1994-present (vice-chair 1996-present).

County Executive appointment to Howard County Recreation and Parks Board, 2003-present.

University Activities

I am an active participant in the University’s Student Exchange Program between the states of Maryland and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This effort is part of the Partners of the Americas Program. In alternate years, 10-12 University of Maryland students, along with one or two faculty members, travel to Brazil for about two weeks to gain field experience in ecology and natural resources management in their “partner” state. And every other year, a like number of students and faculty from Rio de Janeiro travel to the University of Maryland for similar experience.

I organized and hosted two Project Wild workshops held at the University of Maryland (April 2004 and March 2006). Project Wild is an environmental education program of the Council for Environmental Education designed for K-12. University of Maryland students completing the workshop become certified to teach Project Wild.