University Service

I have supervised 30 undergraduate student theses (including 14 honors theses), 54 students in summer research, 49 independent study students.

I have been academic advisor to 142 students, 3 of whom won Goldwater Scholarships, and 1 who won a Fulbright Scholarship.

I have served on 3 Promotion Committees (chaired 2), and 3 Tenure Committees (chaired 1).

I have served the university on the following committees and boards:
Academic Task Force of the Strategic Plan, 2004-2006.
Board of Trustees Faculty Representative (elected), 2006-2008.
College Council (elected), 2005-2007.
Committee to Consider Faculty Handbook Revisions for Undergraduate Tenure and Promotion (elected), 2013-2015.
Employee Benefits Committee, 2005-2017, Chair 2009-2010, 2011-2016, Chair 2020-2021.
Investment Committee, 2011-2016, 2020-2021.
Presidential Task Force on Women, 2007-2008.
President’s Advisory Committee (elected), 2008-2011.
Provost Search Committee, 2006-2007.
Science, Society and the Arts ad-hoc Committee, 2005-2009.
University Library Committee, 2006-2009.

Professional Service

Member of Geological Society of America, American Geophysical Union, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Member of the Research Committee of AAPG, 2002-2005, Computer Applications and Internet Committee of AAPG, 2002-2005.

Session Chair AAPG National Meeting, 2007.

I have served as an Associate Editor for the Special Issue of the journal Interpretation on Balancing, Restoration and Palinspastic Reconstruction.

I have been a peer reviewer for manuscripts in Interpretation, GSA Bul., J. Str. Geol., Mar. & Pet. Geol., Tectonophysics, J. Asian E. Sci., J. Sed. Pet., Geol. Acta, J. Cave & Karst Studies, J. Geol. Ed., and other journals and book chapters, as well as a reviewer to several grant proposals from NSF and the Pet. Research Fdn.

I have served as an external reviewer for Tenure and Promotion cases in the United States and Europe, and on PhD Dissertation Committees.