Professional, Scientific, & Honor Society Activities
Professional Societies (1997 - present)
- American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE)
1997-1999: Vice Chairperson for the ASAE Geographic Information Systems Committee, (IET-216). As the Vice Chairperson, I assisted in selecting the topics to be presented at the annual professional society meeting, and collected presentation materials from various presenters, 1997-1999. - American Water Resource Association (AWRA)
1997-present: Associate Editor of Journal of American Water Resource Association (formerly known as the Water Resource Bulletin) since 1997.
Federal and State Appointments (1996 - present)
- 2000: Appointed as a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel in the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel Meeting conducted by US-EPA on Estimating Pesticide Concentrations in Drinking Water and Assessing Water Treatment Effects on Pesticide Removal and Transformation. September 26-29, 2000.
- 1998-1999: Selected by TNRCC to serve on a TMDL science and technical advisory committee to advise TNRCC about the proper procedures to adopt TMDL for the state of Texas, 1998-1999.
- 1998: Appointed as a member of the steering committee by the U.S. EPA to study long-term recommendations for improving estimates of pesticide concentrations in drinking water. May 21-24, 1998.
- 1997: Invited by the U.S.EPA to be a member of a national panel of 13 members on the subject of "assessment of methods to estimate pesticide concentrations in drinking water." A report outlining suggestions to the EPA was the result of this panel, October 1997.
- 1996-1997: Participated and reviewed an EPA Region 6 source water protection stakeholders report, 1996-1997.