Editorial Service:
Member, Board of Editors, Ecology and Ecological Monographs,
1982-1985.
Member, Board of Editors, Ecological Applications, 1994-1998.
Member, Board of Advisors to the Editor, New Phytologist,
1995-1998.
Member, Editorial Board, Oecologia, 1986-1989.
Member, Editorial Board, Biological Invasions, 1998-2003.
Member, Publications Committee, Ecological Society of America,
1998-2000.
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Biotic Invasions, Biological
Invasions 2(2): 2000.
Granting Agency Service:
Member, sub-panel for Ecology, National Science Foundation, 1982-1985.
Member, Panel for the Biological Research Centers Program, National
Science Foundation, 1987-1988.
Member, Panel for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research, National
Science Foundation, 1990.
Member, Review Panel, Office of Scientific Quality Review, ARS/USDA,
Beltsville, MD (October, 2004-Jan. 2005).
Other:
Member, The Council, Ecological Society of America, 1982-1985.
Consultant, The Nature Conservancy (Olympia Office), 1975-1981.
Member, U.S. Delegation to the Soviet Union in conjunction with
the Bi-national Agreement on the Preservation of Arid Ecosystems,
April, 1983.
Co-organizer, NSF-funded Workshop on "An assessment of the
likelihood for weediness to arise from the release of higher plants
altered through recombinant DNA genetics," October 11-13,
1987, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
Contractor, Office of Technology Assessment, U. S. Congress, May
1991-October 1992 (I wrote the OTA report on the consequences of
non-indigenous plants for the 1993 OTA publication “Harmful
Non-Indigenous Species in the United States.).
Co-editor, SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment)
symposium volume, “Assessing the Impact of Biotic Invasions” [Planning
meetings: Paris, France, December, 1996, and April, 1999; Stanford,
CA, April, 1997, April, 1998 and Cape Town, February & September
2000].
Chair, Technical report in Ecological Society of America series,
Issues in Ecology (Biotic Invasions), 1998-2000.
Member, IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature)
Specialist Group on Invasive Species, 1997-present.
Member, SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment)
Executive Committee, 1997-present.
Member, Steering Committee, GISP (Global Invasive Species Programme,
Phase I), 1997-2000.
Local Host Chair, 84th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society
of America, Spokane, WA (1997-1999).
Chair, Committee on “The Scientific Basis for Predicting
the Invasive Potential of Non-indigenous Plants and Plant Pests
in the United States”, National (U.S.) Research Council,
1999-2001.
Chair, Review of the Rangeland Weeds Project, CSIRO (Australia),
September 2000.
Chair, Review of the Pest Risk and Management Project, CSIRO (Australia),
October 2000.
Member, Executive Board, GISP-II (Global Invasive Species Program)
and Co-Chair, Evaluation, Assessment and Prediction Working Committee,
2001- 2004.
Member, E.O. Wilson Award Committee, American Society of Naturalists,
July 2002-2004.
Invited speaker, U.S. Department of State Speaker’s Program,
Brazil, Aug. 2002.
Member, working group, The National Commission on Science for Sustainable
Forestry (NCSSF). April, 2003.
Member, Non-native Species Task Group for the State of the Nation's
Ecosystems report. Heinz Foundation. 2003-2004.
Member, National Invasive Species Council (NISC)/ Invasive Species
Advisory Committee (ISAC) Subcommittee on Early Detection and Rapid
Response 2002-present.
Member, Ecological Society of America Rapid Response Team for Invasive
Species (a public affairs committee), October, 2004-present.
PhD external examiner, Department of Renewable Resources, University
of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (March 2005).
Site visit member, "Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Research
Network" Canadian Natural Science and Engineering Research
Council (NSERC). Toronto, Ontario (April 2005).
Panel member, ESA Press briefing, National Press Club, Washington,
DC, 3 March 2006
Panel member, USDA/USFS Invasive Species Peer Review Panel, Washington,
DC, October 2006
Co-PI and organizer, Indo-U.S. Science & Technology Forum workshop, “Indo-U.S.
workshop on invasive plants in Indian Protected Areas”, Corbett
National Park, India, November 2006.
Professional and Honorary Societies: Botanical Society of America
British Ecological Society
Ecological Society of America
International Association for Ecology (INTECOL)
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