On behalf of the plaintiffs, Green et al. vs. US government. Deposed 27 March 2012 (Silver City, New Mexico) and 12 September 2012 (Tucson, Arizona); testified December 2013 and January 2014 (Tucson, Arizona).
Prepared written testimony regarding H.R. 3102, 108th Congress, 1st
Session, June 2004.
Inaugural director of the The Nature Conservancy's David H. Smith Fellows
Program in Applied Conservation Research (Arlington, Virginia,
1999-2000)
Organized and co-chaired the following symposia:
- Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on Savanna Ecosystems of the
Arid Southwest. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting,
Albuquerque, New Mexico (1997)
- Importance of precipitation amount and seasonality for ecosystem
structure and function. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting,
Baltimore, Maryland (1998)
Organized and moderated public panel session, Beyond the Headlines:
Prospects for Humanity as Earth Heats Up. Center for Inquiry, Tucson,
Arizona (2006)
Organized and participated in three-day workshop, Linking Producers and
Consumers: Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services. The Research
Ranch Foundation, Tucson, Arizona (2006)
Member, Technical Advisory Committee, City of Tucson and Arizona Game and
Fish Department. Committee is drafting a multi-species Habitat
Conservation Plan under the Endangered Species Act, Section 10(a)(1)(B)
(2004-present)
Member of the following advisory groups:
- Advisory Board, Center for Inquiry, southern Arizona chapter
(2006-present)
- Science Advisory Panel, Malpai Borderlands Group, Douglas, Arizona
(2003-present)
- Governor of Arizona's Invasive Species Advisory Council, Phoenix,
Arizona (2005-2007)
- Science Advisory Panel, Rincon Institute, Tucson, Arizona
(1993-2005)
- Board of Trustees, Research Ranch Foundation, Elgin, Arizona
(2004-2005)
- Science Advisory Committee, National Audubon Society Appleton-Whittell
Research Ranch, Elgin, Arizona (2002-2005)
- Science Advisory Committee, David H. Smith Postdoctoral Fellows
Program in Applied Conservation, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington,
Virginia (2001-2005)
Member of steering committees for the following symposia, workshops, and
discussion sessions:
- Grassland Management at the Millennium. Sponsored by
Ecological Society of America, Society for Range Management, and USDA
Forest Service. Omaha, Nebraska (1999)
- Ecosystem Simplification. Sponsored by Ecological Society of
America and Society for Range Management. Kona, Hawaii (2001)
- Applying State and Transition Models in the Face of
Biological Invasions. Sponsored by Ecological Society of
America and Society for Range Management. Kansas City, Missouri
(2002)
- Who Wants to Beat an Invasive Species? Nipping Invasive
Species in the Bud. Sponsored by Ecological Society of America and
Society for Range Management. Tucson, Arizona (2002)
- Managing Toward the Past: Using Historic Range of Variability
in Managing Rangelands. Sponsored by Ecological Society of
America and Society for Range Management. Casper, Wyoming (2003)
- Are you the Weakest Link in Climate Change? Sponsored by
Ecological Society of America and Society for Range Management. Savannah,
Georgia (2003)
- The Big Stuff that Really Matters. Sponsored by Ecological
Society of America and Society for Range Management. Salt Lake City, Utah
(2004)
- Linking Producers and Consumers: Assigning Economic Value to
Ecosystem Services. Sponsored by The Research Ranch Foundation.
Tucson, Arizona (2006)
- Beyond the Headlines: Prospects for Humanity as Earth Heats Up.
Sponsored by the Center for Inquiry. Tucson, Arizona (2006)
Review panelist for the following programs:
- USDA CSRS Rangeland Competitive Grants Program. Denver, Colorado
(1992)
- Environmental Protection Agency Science to Achieve Results Program:
Futures Research in Sustainability. Arlington, Virginia (2000)
- David H. Smith Fellows postdoctoral program in conservation biology.
Arlington, Virginia (2003, 2006)
- Environmental Protection Agency Science to Achieve Results Program:
Terrestrial Ecology. Washington, D.C. (2004, 2005, 2006)
- USDI Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife and habitat management review,
Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge (2004)
Ad hoc reviewer for the following programs:
- Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnolgica, Argentina
- CALFED Bay-Delta Program
- European Science Foundation
- NASA Global Change Fellowship Program
- National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
- National Science Foundation
- The Nature Conservancy Small Grants Research Program
- The Nature Conservancy David H. Smith Fellows Program
- USDA CSRS Rangeland Competitive Grants Program
- USDA CSRS National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program
Ad hoc reviewer for several book publishers and the following
journals:
- American Biology Teacher
- American Journal of Botany
- American Midland Naturalist
- Applied Vegetation Science
- Australian Journal of Botany
- Biological Conservation
- BioScience
- Conservation Biology
- Ecography
- Ecological Applications
- Ecological Monographs
- Ecology
- Ecology Letters
- Environmental Science and Policy
- International Journal of Wildland Fire
- Journal of Arid Environments
- Journal of Ecology
- Journal of Range Management
- Journal of Sustainable Forestry
- Journal of Tropical Ecology
- Journal of Vegetation Science
- Oikos
- Plant Ecology
- Radiocarbon
- Rangeland Ecology & Management
- Restoration Ecology
- Soil Science Society of America Journal
- Southwestern Naturalist
- Western Journal of Applied Forestry
- Western North American Naturalist
Inteviewed for, and quoted in, the following media outlets:
- Arizona Daily Star (Tucson daily newspaper)
- Arizona Illustrated (Tucson PBS affiliate)
- Arizona Republic (Phoenix daily newspaper)
- Arizona Daily Star (University of Arizona daily newspaper)
- Associated Press (newspapers)
- Carapace (quarterly newsletter)
- Experts Talk Issues, KWRS, Spokane, Washington (weekly radio
show; guest each week, January - May 2005)
- Fort Huachuca Scout (weekly newspaper)
- High Country News
- KVOA channel 4 (Tucson NBC affiliate)
- Lo Que Pasa (weekly newspaper)
- National Public Radio (radio)
- Native Plants (magazine)
- Nature Conservancy (magazine)
- New York Times (daily newspaper)
- Northwest Explorer (weekly newspaper)
- Time for Kids (weekly magazine)
- Tucson Citizen (Tucson daily newspaper)
Chair and member of many committees at all levels within the University of
Arizona--university, college, and department
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