2001. Chosen as
a Lilly Teaching Fellow, MSU.
1999. Chosen as
a participant for the MSU Faculty Writing Project.
1999. Chosen as
a participant for the DIALOG program conference (Dissertations Initiative
for the Advancement of Limnology and Oceanography).
1998. Top Fin
award, Fisheries Division, Michigan Department of Natural Resources,
presented to the Watershed Approach to Re-engineering Committee.
1996. Presidential
Fellowship, The Ohio State University.
1996. Darwin Award
recipient. Presented by the faculty of the Department of Zoology,
the Ohio State University, for the best graduate student
presentation at a state or national meeting.
1995. Best Student
Paper Award - Honorable Mention (top 6 of 84 presentations). Annual
Meeting of the American Fisheries Society.
1995. American
Fisheries Society, J. Frances Allen Scholarship Runner-Up.
1993. Best Student
Paper Award - Honorable Mention (top 5 of 70 presentations). Annual
Meeting of the American Fisheries Society.
1993. Skinner
Travel Award, Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society.
1992. Best Fisheries
Paper, Ohio Fish and Wildlife Conference.
2003 - present.
Co-chair of Smallmouth and Largemouth Bass Regulations Committee,
Fisheries Division, Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
2003 - present.
Member of Curriculum Evaluation and Review Committee, Department of
Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University.
2002 - present.
Associate Editor, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.
2001 - present.
Member Scientific Advisory Committee, Michigan Environmental Council.
2000 - present.
Secretary, Michigan Chapter, North American Lake Management Society.
2001, 2002, 2003.
Panel member for the NSF sponsored Graduate Fellowships program, Environmental
Biology, Washington, D.C.
1999 - 2001. Member
of Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife,
Michigan State University.
1998 - 2003. Member
of Inventory and Assessment Committee, Fisheries Division, Michigan
Department of Natural Resources.
2000 - 2001. Member
of Internal Coolwater Regulations Review Committee, Fisheries Division,
Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
1998 - 1999. Chair
of Internal Coldwater Regulations Review Committee, Fisheries Division,
Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
1998 Member of
Curriculum Committee, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan
State University.
1997. Member of
Watershed Approach to Re-engineering Committee, Fisheries Division,
Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
1989-present.
I have reviewed manuscripts for Canadian Journal of Fisheries and
Aquatic Sciences, Ecology, Ecological Applications, Ecosystems, Environmental
Biology of Fishes, Fisheries Bulletin, Hydrobiologia, Limnology and
Oceanography, North American Journal of Fisheries Management, and
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.