Professional Affiliations & Community Service

• International Erosion Control Association since 1992.
  • Editorial board member for the association’s Environmental Connections Journal, summer ’07 to present.
  • Peer reviewer for the Publications Committee, Dec. ’05 to present.
  • Peer reviewer, conference submittals concerning streambank restoration, ’98 to present.
• U.S. EPA Office of Water.
  • Peer reviewer, Draft National Management Measures to Control Nonpoint Sources of Pollution from Hydromodification., ’06.
  • Peer reviewer, Draft Urban NPS Control; and Draft Watershed Erosion Assessment, ’03.
• Oregon Chapter, Association of Clean Water Agencies (ACWA).
  • Member of ACWA’s stormwater and education committees.
• NW Science Writers Association since 2009.
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Metro Regional Parks and Greenspaces. Served as the geomorphologist on the Natural Area Restoration Grants Review Committee, ’00 –’03.
• Oregon Department of Agriculture, Lower Willamette River Agriculture Water Quality Committee, ’02 –Present. Work with an interdisciplinary committee composed of representatives from public and private sectors to develop policy and rule language concerning agricultural water quality improvements. Currently working on monitoring program.
• Metro Regional Government,Water Resources Policy Advisory Committee and subcommittees on water quality, fish and wildlife protection., Portland, Oregon, ’98 –’05.
• East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District, associate director, ’96 –’03.
• Mt. Hood Community College, Natural Resources Technology & Forestry Programs. Served as adjunct faculty and advisory committee member, ’96 –’05.
• Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Erosion Control Policy Committee. Served on this committee to develop statewide erosion control policy, ’95 –’97.
• Oregon Department of Education, Natural Resources Education Committee. Represented water quality and watershed concerns for the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality on this committee recommending education requirements for certificates of initial and advanced mastery in natural resources, ’96 –’97.
• Plumas County Supervisors’ Sediment Management Committee (Feather River, CA), ’95 –’97. As a graduate student, I was invited to serve as the geomorphologist on this committee that developed a watershed protection program for the uppermost watersheds of the California Water Project, ’85 –’87 (thesis topic).