Committees

• 2006-present Service on OSU Natural Resource Ecology and Management Departmental Committees: Search Committee:  Rangeland Ecologist faculty member Undergraduate Curriculum  Committee.

• 2004-2006  Service on OSU Plant and Soil Sciences Departmental Committees: Scholarship Selection Committee Chair Curriculum Committee Agronomy Career Development Event Supervisor.

• 2004-present  Service on OSU College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural  Resources Committees: Scholarship Committee           (Chair 2005-06).

• 2004-2006  Service on OSU College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural  Resources Committees: Student Technology Fees Committee.

• 2004  Service on FHSU Department of Biological Sciences Committees:   Microbial Ecologist Search Committee.

• 2003-04  Service on FHSU Committees: National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education  (NCATE): Candidate Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions  Review (Education) NCATE: Field Experience and Clinical Practice (Education) Academic Supervisor Select Education  Team (Education) Middle School Endorsement Committee (Education) Reassigned Time Committee.

• 2003-04 Service on FHSU College of Health and Life Sciences Committees: Faculty Advisory Council Curriculum Committee

• 2003-04   Service on FHSU Department of Biological Sciences Committees: Curriculum Committee, Scholarship Selection Committee, Graduate Committee, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Anatomy and Physiology Search Committee (chair), Tenure Committee

• 2003-04    Service on State and National Organization Committees: Kansas Association for Conservation & Environmental                   Education National Range Science Education Committee. Kansas Section: Society for Range Management Board of Directors Kansas Section: Society for Range Management Instruction and Education Committee.

• 2002-03 Service on FHSU Committees: NCATE: Candidate Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions Review, NCATE: Field Experience and Clinical Practice, Academic Supervisor Select Education Team, Pilot Award Selection Committee, Middle School Science Endorsement Committee, Reassigned Time Committee.

• 2002-03  Service on FHSU College of Health and Life Sciences Committees: Faculty Advisory Council Committee:                Curriculum Instruction, Scholarship & Service.

• 2002-03  Service on FHSU Department of Biological Sciences Committees:  Curriculum Revision Committee,  Scholarship Selection Committee, NCATE Review, Graduate Committee, Tenure and Promotion Committee.

• 2002-03  Service on State and National Organization Committees: FHSU representative to KS Association for Conservation & Environmental Education, National Range Science Education Committee, Kansas Section: Society for Range Management Promotion    and Planning Committee.

• 2001 FHSU Committee member: NCATE:  Candidate Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions Review committee. NCATE: Field Experience and Clinical Practice committee.

• 2001  Service on FHSU Department of Biological Sciences  Committees: Biological Sciences Dept. Chair Search                                  Committee Microbiologist Faculty Search Committee.

• 1999   Service on FHSU Department of Biological Sciences  Committees: Physiologist Faculty Search Committee.

• 1999  Service on UMHB Committees: UMHB  Athletic Training Faculty Search Committee

• 1998   Service on UMHB Committees: UMHB  Accounting Faculty Position Search Committee

• 1995  Search Committee Graduate Student Representative forb Landscape/Ecosystems Ecology Position. Division of Biology, Kansas State University.

Professional Memberships

(current and previous)

•    Society for Range Management

• Rangeland Science Education Council

• Oklahoma Native Plant Society

• National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture

• Kansas Wildflower Society

• Kansas Association for Conservation & Environmental Education

• Kansas Association of Teachers of Science

• American Institute of Biological Science

• Native Prairie Association of Texas

• Ecological Society of America

• The Nature Conservancy

• Native Plant Society of Texas

• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Research Center

• National Science Teacher's Association

• Oklahoma Academy of Science

• National Education Association

                    Awards and Recognitions

• 2006  Outstanding Advisor Award.  OSU Student Chapter of the Society for Range Management.

• 2006  Commencement Speaker.  Pioneer Pleasant-Vale (OK) High School Class of 2006.

• 2005  Commencement Speaker.  Alva (OK) High School Class of 2005.

• 2004  FHSU University Research Award.

• 2002  Keynote Speaker at the 25^th Anniversary Oklahoma Wildflower Workshop.  Alva, OK.

• 1998  Teacher of the Year.  University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Gamma Beta Phi.

• 1998  Recipient:  University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Faculty Research Support Grant. 

• 1998  Invited Seminar: Texas A & M Department of Rangeland Ecology and Management.  "Tallgrass Prairie Plant Community Responses to Grazing Systems & Grazing Intensity in the Flint Hills.

• 1997  Invited Speaker:  Twin Lakes Audubon Society.  Belton, TX

     Professional and Volunteer Activities           

•  2006 OSU Crops Judging Team Coach:  2^nd place Central Region Crops Judging Contest.

• 2005-current  Range Club Advisor.

• 2005  Undergraduate Range Management Exam Coach.  4^th place Team at Ft. Worth Society Range Management Meeting.

• 2005  Range Plant Coach.  Two students participated at Ft. Worth Society Range Management Meeting.

• 2004-current   Agronomy Career Development Event Supervisor.

• 2004-05    Co-advisor Agronomy Club.

• 2004   Crops Team Coach.  3^rd place Central Region Crops Judging Contest. 

• 2004  Hosted the Central Region Crops Judging Contest.

• 2004-current   Adjunct Faculty.  Fort Hays State University.

• 2004   Served as a judge in the 2004 Graduate Student Poster and Oral Presentation Competition at the Annual Society for Range Management meeting at Salt Lake City.

• 2004   Attended the Fort Hays State University Scholarship Recognition Program in Wichita. 

• 2003    Local Organizing Committee Chair:  Annual meeting and range tour of the Kansas Section of the Society for Range Management. 

• 2003    Local Organizing Committee Chair:  Fall meeting of the Kansas Grazing Lands Coalition. 

• 2003   Covered Crop Science classes for Dr. Bob Stephenson in the FHSU Dept. of Agriculture.

• 2003    Developed a poster on “Poisonous Plants and Pets” for the Hays Home and Garden Show.

• 2003   Attended the Fort Hays State University Scholarship Recognition Program in Wichita.

• 2002     Local Organizing Committee Chair:  Annual meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science.

• 2002     Attended the Fort Hays State University Scholarship Recognition Program in Wichita.

• 2001    Local Organizing Committee member for 48^th Annual Southwestern Association of Naturalists meeting.                

• 2000    Seminar presentation for the FHSU Biology Club.  “Invasion of Native Grasslands by Old World Bluestems”.

• 1999   Conducted a Native Blackland Prairie tour for the fall Native Plant Society of Texas meeting

• 1999    Attended  KLA-KSU Ranch Management Field Day.  18 August 1999.  Thies-Pyramid Ranch.   Gove, KS       

• 1997    Attended 25^th Anniversary Symposium for Brown and Goldstein.  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.  Dallas, TX.

• 1997    Attended the Texas Organization for Endangered Species Annual Meeting.

• 1996-97   Univ. of Mary Hardin-Baylor Faculty Committee Member:  Environmental Concerns

• 1995    Plant Ecology Research Laboratory Coordinator, Division of Biology,  Kansas State University.

• 1995     Speaker for Outdoor Women.  Fort Riley Middle School, Ft. Riley, Kansas.

• 1995    Science Fair Judge.  Kansas Junior Academy of  Science.

• 1994   Fourteenth North American Prairie Conference.  Program staff field/tour guide.

• 1994   Assisted with tours of  Konza Prairie Research Natural Area (KPRNA).

• 1990     Created and conducted S.E.E.  A Summer ecology experience for elementary and middle-school students.

• 1990-02   Regional Curriculum Contest.  Science test writer.  Test sponsor.

• 1989  Northwest Oklahoma Regional Science Fair Judge.

Community Service

• 2004-current   Member of the Enid Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA)  Board of Directors.

• 2005-current    Chair.  Grounds and Building Maintenance Committee.  Enid SPCA Standing Committee.

• 2001-04    President of the Humane Society of the High Plains (HSHP) Executive Board.

• 2000-01   Member of the Humane Society of the High Plains Executive Board.

• 1999     Conducted sessions for the Boy Scouts Annual Jamboree.  Hays, KS.

• 1999    Member of the Humane Society of the High Plains Advisory Board.

• 1999    Produced “HSHP Adopt-a-Pet” bulletin boards posted in area businesses and the Hays Public Library.  

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