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
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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
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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 25th 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: 2nd place Central Region Crops Judging
Contest.
2005-current Range Club Advisor.
2005 Undergraduate Range Management Exam Coach. 4th 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. 3rd 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 48th 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 25th 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.
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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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