2003 – present: Student Adviser
Adviser of record for over 40 students, meeting regularly with most of them and informally serving as an advisor for many other departmental and non-departmental students.
Frequently staff departmental Open House tables.  Serve as an Orientation advisor for both new and transfer students, often over the summer.

2003 – present: Departmental Undergraduate Committee /Analysis and Planning Committee
(Chair 2004 – 2005 and 2006 – 2007).
This committee was responsible for compiling a draft departmental evaluation document and assembling a large portion of the information for the departmental program review.  This committee also compiled several draft reports on possible curricular changes.  The committee reviews all course proposals and committee members drafted 12 out of the 16 Intellectual Foundations course submission narratives originally submitted.    

2004 – present: Safety Officer
Hold training sessions for students and faculty.  Partially responsible for oversight of the departmental chemical inventory and hazardous waste stream. 

2004 – 2006: Library Liaison
Submitted departmental book requests and loudly advocated the addition of the GeoRef database.

2004 – 2005: Departmental ad hoc Bylaws Revision Committee
Updated and re-wrote the departmental bylaws. 

2004 –2005: Chair, Departmental ad hoc Course Evaluation Form Committee
Developed the new course evaluation form that is currently in use.

04/05, 04/06, 04/07: Sponsored Student Research at the Student Research and Creativity Day

2005 – 2008: School of Natural and Social Sciences Representative to the College Senate
Member of the College Senate, raising the concerns of the NSS faculty and voting in accordance with the majority feeling of the NSS faculty as determined at faculty meetings.

2006 – 2008: Member of the Academic Plan Standing Committee of the College Senate
Reviewed the Draft Memorandum of Understanding prepared by SUNY System Administration and compared to Mission Review II.  Presented four significant items of discussion to the Senate and Administration. 

2006 – present: Senate Representative to the Academic Quad/Bulger Renovations Committee
This committee was in the discussion phase of developing a plan for a significant redesign of the Academic Quadrangle and future disposition of the Ice Fountain. 

2004 – present: Research and Creativity Council (Associate Chair 2006 – 2008)
The Council runs the Faculty Research and Creativity Celebration / Fall Forum, assists in the evaluation of Faculty Research Incentive Grants, and has developed a Spring Forum to promote faculty networking and grant writing.

2004 – 2005: Research and Creativity Council Strategic Planning Committee
This committee review the colleges strategic plan completed the previous year, reviewed the faculty handbook on scholarship for implementation of strategic plan, developed some three year goals for support and promotion of faculty scholarship and held a stakeholders meeting to get feedback from the community at large.

2004 – present: Women in Science and Mathematics
Sponsors an on-going speakers series that brings notable woman scholars to campus.

2005 – present: Campus Radiation Safety Committee
This committee meets in accordance with regulatory requirements to review and evaluated the use and status of radioactive materials on campus and radiation producing equipment. The committee also discusses other issues of Health and Safety on campus.

02/05, 10/06, 10/07: Presentations for Faculty Scholarship and Creativity Day.
Created posters describing my current research projects

12/05: Presentation for the Buffalo State College Geology Club.
I presented a well attended talk entitled The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR): Answer to our oil woes or invaluable wildlife preserve ?

9/03, 9/04, 9/05: Sponsored Student Conservation Association presentations 
I hosted a member of the Student Conservation Association who came to speak about paid internship opportunities.

2004, 2005: Presidents Medal for Outstanding Graduate Student and Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence  This committee review all submitted portfolios and selected students for award consideration. 

2002 – 2004: Faculty Advisor for the Wilderness Club.

10/07: Moderator for a Public Forum on Forensic Science at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, 2007.

10/07: Session co-chair at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, 2007.
Co-chair of a session on Forensic Geoscience

10/06: Session co-chair at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, 2006.
Co-chair of a session on Forensic Geoscience

2004 – present: Reviewer
Review journal articles for the Journal of Forensic Science, Journal of South American Earth Sciences and Groundwater. (Cross-listed in Mastery of Scholarship)

2004 – present: Textbook Chapter Reviewer
Reviewed book chapters for Understanding Earth 5th edition, Grotzinger, Jordan, Press and Siever; Exploring Geology 1st edition by Stephen Reynolds, Julia Johnson, Michael Kelly, Paul Morin, and Chuck Carter; and Geology 4th edition by Stanley Chernicoff and Donna Whitney. (Cross-listed in Mastery of Scholarship)

2004 – present: Consultant and Expert Witness
One of the community service experiences of which I am most proud has been my role as a consultant and expert witness for Gary A. Abraham, Esq., representing the Concerned Citizens of Cattaraugus County, Incorporated in the matter of the Integrated Waste Systems (IWS) NYSDEC Application ID # 9-0438-00004/00014 Proposed Southern Tier Solid Waste Management Facility, colloquially known as the Farmersville Landfill.  I examined the hydrogeological model produced by consultants for IWS, evaluating the models assumptions. I also assessed other environmental issues associated with the proposed site of the landfill, including identifying possible hazards associated with the hydric soils located at the toe of the proposed landfill cell sites.
    Students in two of my Environmental Field Methods courses assisted in gathering various types of background material (soil survey maps, Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) for nearby projects, and newspaper articles IWS) and produced formal letters describing their findings that were submitted to the DEC at one of the public meetings held in Farmerville. Gary Abrahams, the attorney for the Concerned Citizens of Cattaraugus County, also addressed the class one year, providing the students with an example of how a lawyer views and presents scientific data. The following students deserve enormous credit for their work on the Farmersville project: Jennifer Kelly, Peter Fearon, Victoria Goodenough, Anthony Kellogg, Sarah Whittle, and Jeffery Cooper. 

2006 – present: Consultant
I am acting as an unpaid consultant for a citizens action group interested in maintaining oversight of the proposed Chaffee Landfill Expansion.  Basically my role is to point out potential areas of concern and help evaluate the proposed groundwater monitoring network.

2004, 2005, 2006: Volunteer and Scurvy Pirate
Each year, when possible I have helped with the Penn Dixie “Scare-assic Park ! A Pirate Adventure” fund raiser and the Brass Ring Thing fundraiser for the Carrousel Museum in Tonawanda.  Usually with site logistics, but also demonstrating various forms of fencing (with swords, not chain-link.)

2002-2004: I was an officer in a national not-for-profit, historical re-enactment fencing program and was responsible for overseeing activities in western New York, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia.  In 2003, I initiated a program for youth age 14 - 18 to participate in re-enactment fencing.  This is a sports program similar to FIE “Olympic-style” fencing, but training is free and the program is run by volunteers.   

• Each year I find that I am invited to serve the Buffalo State College in a broader range of areas.

• Completed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) 40-hour Health and Safety Training Course, May 21st, 2004.  Attend the yearly required 8-hour refresher course, 2005, 2006. 2007.

• Completed Hazardous Waste Identification and Management Training course, September 23, 2005.

• Elected to serve as a College Senate Representative for the Faculty of the Natural and Social Sciences.

• Associate Chair of the Research and Creativity Council, 2006 - 2008. Chair of two different Departmental committees.