Education:

Bachelor of Architecture, May 1971, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois

Master of City and Regional Planning, May 1977, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois

Doctor of Philosophy (Geography), May 1980, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Research Interests:

Effects of human impacts on streams and watersheds

Fluvial and eolian geomorphology and sedimentology

Effects of Quaternary climatic change on landforms, soils, hydrology, and vegetation

Geoarchaeology

Teaching Interests:

Geomorphology                           Fluvial Geomorphology                  Arid Lands Geomorphology
Soil Genesis and Geography         Field Methods                               Water Resources       

Employment:

September 1993 – present: Professor, Department of Geography, University of Oregon

July 1993 - June 1996:  Head, Department of Geography, University of Oregon

August 1990 - December 1992:  Associate Vice President for Research, University of Oregon.

September 1987 - September 1993: Associate Professor of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.

September 1982 - August 1987:  Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Oregon.

September 1979 - August 1982:  Assistant Professor of Geography, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. (concurrently, Research Associate in Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Department of Archaeology).

June 1978:  Research Assistant, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, Madison, Wisconsin.  Field investigation of Quaternary stratigraphy of the Wisconsin River valley.  J. C. Knox, project director.

September 1977 - May 1978 and June - August 1976:  Instructor, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

June - August 1977:  Research Assistant, Department of Biological Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan.  Inventory and mapping of soils in Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Lake Superior, Wisconsin.  R. T. Brown, project director.

January - May 1976:  Research Assistant, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.  Research and preparation of proposals on effects of short-term climatic variations on hydrologic systems.  J. C. Knox, project director.

September - December 1975 and September 1976 - May 1977:  Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

September 1974 - May 1975:  Whitbeck Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

May - August 1974:  Research Assistant, American Society of Planning Officials (now the American Planning Association), Chicago, Illinois.  HUD-sponsored project on impacts of rural second-home developments in the U.S.  D. R. Mosena, project director.

September 1972 - May 1974:  Teaching Assistant, Department of City and Regional Planning, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois.

Research Publications:

“Evidence of Quaternary Climatic Variations in a Sequence of loess and related deposits at Birch Creek, Alaska: Implications for the stage 5 climatic chronology,” P. F. McDowell and M. E. Edwards, Quaternary Science Reviews 20: 63-76. (2001)

“Human impacts and river channel adjustment, northeastern Oregon: Implications for restoration,” p. 257-261 in Wigington, P.J., and Beschta, R.L., eds., Riparian Ecology and Management in Multi-Land Use Watersheds, Middleburg, VA: American Water Resources Association, 2000. 

 “Stream channel adjustment following elimination of cattle grazing,” F. J. Magilligan and P. F. McDowell, Journal of the American Water Resources Association 33: 867-878, 1997.

 “Response and recovery of stream channels following removal of cattle grazing,” P. F. McDowell and F. J. Magilligan, p. 469-475 in Wang, S.S. Y., Langendoen, E.J., and Shields, F.D., Jr., eds., Management of Landscapes Disturbed by Channel Incision: Stabilization, Rehabilitation, Restoration.  Oxford Mississippi: University of Mississippi, 1997. 

"Holocene lake-level variations and eolian activity in the Oregon Great Basin," P. F. McDowell and D. Dugas, in Proceedings of the Workshop “Ongoing Paleoclimatic Studies in the Northern Great Basin,” Reno, Nevada, May 1993,” U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1119, p. 53-54, 1996.

"Geomorphology and soils of the McCoy Creek site,"  P. F. McDowell, p. 259-266, in Adaptive Transitions and Environmental Change in the Northern Great Basin:  A View from Diamond Swamp, R.R. Musil ed., University of Oregon Anthropological Papers, no 51, 1995.

"Geomorphology and soils of the Dunn site,"  P. F. McDowell, p. 233-238, in Adaptive Transitions and Environmental Change in the Northern Great Basin:  A View from Diamond Swamp, R.R. Musil ed., University of Oregon Anthropological Papers, no 51, 1995.

"Late Quaternary geomorphic and soils stratigraphy of Yaquina Head" in Archaeology of Site 35LNC62, Yaquina Head, Central Oregon Coast, R. Minor, ed., U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resources Series, 1994.

"A framework for interpreting paleoclimatic variations in eastern Beringia," P.J. Bartlein, P.M. Anderson, M.E. Edwards, and P.F. McDowell, Quaternary International 12: 73-83, 1992.

"The Local-Global Continuum", D. Gregory, W. Meyer, B.L.Turner III, and P.F. McDowell, in Geography's Inner Worlds, R. Abler, M. Marcus, J. Olson, eds., p. 255-279.  Rutgers University Press, 1992.

"Quaternary stratigraphy and geomorphic surfaces of the Willamette Valley, Oregon,"  in Quaternary Non-glacial Geology of the Conterminous United States, R. B. Morrison, ed., Geological Society of America, Decade of North American Geology series, p. 156-164, 1991.

"Major perturbations of the hydrosphere-atmosphere-biosphere system," D. Anderson et al., in Global Changes of the Past, R.S. Bradley, ed., Papers arising from the 1989 OIES Global Change Institute, p. 43-59.  University Consortium for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Office for Interdisciplinary Earth Studies, Boulder, CO, 1991.

"Geomorphology, sediments and soil chemistry at Yaquina Head," in Yaquina Head: A Middle Archaic Settlement on the North-Central Oregon Coast, R. Minor, ed., U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office, Cultural Resources Series, no. 6, p. 11-28, 1991.

"Interglacial deposits at Birch Creek, northeast interior Alaska," M. E. Edwards and P. McDowell, Quaternary Research, 35(1): 41-52, 1991.

"Long-term environmental change," P. McDowell, T. Webb III, and P. Bartlein, in The Earth as Transformed by Human Action, B. L. Turner and others, eds., p. 143-162, Cambridge University Press, 1990.  Also reprinted in Ecological Time Series, T. M. Powell and J. H. Steele, eds., Chapman and Hall, 1995.

"Geomorphology and soils," in Archaeology of the North Yaquina Head Shell Middens, Central Oregon Coast, R. Minor, ed., U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office, Cultural Resources Series, no. 3, p. 6-18, 1989.

"Chemical enrichment of soils at archaeological sites: some Oregon case studies," Physical Geography 9(3): 247-262, 1988.

"Report on geomorphic investigations at the Kirk Park and Fern Ridge Reservoir archaeological sites," p. 231-243 in Late Archaic Settlement Pattern in the Long Tom Sub-Basin, Upper Willamette Valley, Oregon, University of Oregon Anthropology Papers no. 39, 1988.

"Quaternary deposits at Birch Creek, northeastern interior Alaska: the possibility of climatic reconstruction," M. E. Edwards and P. F. McDowell, in Proceedings of Joint Canadian-U.S. Symposium on Arctic Research, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1026, p. 48-50, 1988.

"Geomorphic Processes in the Pacific Coast and Mountain System of Oregon and Washington," in Geomorphic Systems of North America, W. Graf, ed., Geological Society of North America, Decade of North American Geology series, Centennial Special Volume 2, p. 539-549, 1987.

"Geomorphology of the Yaquina Head site," in Archaeological Investigations at Yaquina Head, Central Oregon Coast, R. Minor, ed., U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office, Cultural Resources Series, no. 1, p. 13-20, 1987.

"Report on geomorphic investigation at the Shattuck Farm archaeological site, Essex County, Massachusetts," in The Camp at the Bend in the River, Prehistory at the Shattuck Farm Site, B. E. Luedtke, Massachusetts Historical Commission Occasional Publications in Archaeology and History, No. 3, p. 350-359, 1985.

"Geomorphic setting of archaeological sites, southern Willamette Valley, Oregon," Tebiwa 21: 35-44, 1984.

"Soil chemical properties of the cultural fill at the Bostonian Hotel Site," in Archaeology of the Bostonian Hotel Site,  Massachusetts Historical Commission Occasional Publications in Archaeology and History, No. 2, p. 60-66, 1983.

"Environmental setting of Merrimack Valley prehistoric sites," with V. B. Kenyon, Man in the Northeast 5: 7-23, 1983.

"Evidence of stream response to Holocene climatic change in a small Wisconsin watershed," Quaternary Research 19: 100-116, 1983.

"Soil development in Holocene valley deposits of Brush Creek valley, Wisconsin" in Quaternary History of the Driftless Area, Wisconsin Geologic and Natural History Survey, Field Trip Guidebook No. 5, p. 136-154, 1982.

"Holocene fluvial stratigraphy and climatic change in the Driftless Area, Wisconsin," with J. C. Knox and W. C. Johnson, in Quaternary Paleoclimate, W. C. Mahaney, ed., p. 107-127, Geo Abstracts, Ltd., Norwich, England, 1981.

"Soils and surficial geology on four of the Apostle Islands," with S. Cary and L. Graumlich, Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 67: 14-30, 1979.

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Research Presentations:

“Stream monitoring protocols:  What is measured and why?” to be presented at Association of American Geographers annual meeting, New York, (Feb. 2001)

“Airborne remote sensing of spatial patterns of stream temperature and riparian condition in Oregon rivers,” C. E.Torgersen, with P. McDowell, R. N.Faux and B A.McIntosh, to be presented at Association of American Geographers annual meeting, New York, (Feb. 2001)

“Variability in channel form at three spatial scales -- segment, reach and channel unit,” presented at Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Pittsburgh PA (April 2000)

“Spatial variation in channel change on the Middle Fork John Day River, Oregon, over the last 100 years,” presented at American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting, San Francisco CA (Dec. 1999)

“Transformation of the Middle Fork  John Day River, Oregon, 1860s to 1990s, and Implications for Restoration,” presented at Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Honolulu, HI, (April 1999).

“Reach-scale variation in channel morphology related to valley width changes, Middle Fork of the John Day River, Oregon,” presented at American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting, San Francisco CA (Dec. 1998).

“Channel geomorphology and management issues,” presented at Desert Fish Conservation and Management Workshop, sponsored by the Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Malheur Field Station (Sept. 1998). 

“Bank erosion, sediment inputs, and channel morphology:  Effects of Cattle Grazing,” presented at Sediment Workshop, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Portland, OR, (April 1998).

“Stream channel response to removal of grazing disturbance,” F.J. Magilligan and P.F. McDowell, presented by F.J. Magilligan at Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Boston, MA, (March 1998).

“Geomorphic characteristics of salmonid-supporting streams, Umatilla National Forest, Oregon,” A.W. Lamb and P.F. McDowell, presented by A.W. Lamb at Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Boston, MA, (March 1998).

“Processes of pool development in ungrazed streams,” P. McDowell and F. Magilligan, Symposium on Impacts of Land Use on the Hydrologic-Geomorphic Response of Watersheds, American Geophysical Union fall national meeting, San Francisco, CA (December 1997).

 “Adjustments in channel morphology in cattle grazing exclosures,” presented at Conference on Riparian Use, Ecology and Management, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR, (May 1997).

“Response and recovery of stream channels following removal of cattle grazing,” presented at Conference on Management of Landscapes Disturbed by Channel Incision: Stabilization, Rehabilitation, Restoration, Oxford, MS (May 1997).

“Geologic and management influences on channel morphology,” presented at Workshop on The Role of Earth Sciences in Ecosystem Analysis, sponsored by U. S. Forest Service Region 6, Portland, OR, (April 23, 1997).

“Global data sets of modern and LGM surficial deposits,” by P. F. McDowell, L. Songer and P. Bartlein, presented at Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver CO, (October 28-31, 1996). 

“Eolian activity, climatic variation, and the archaeological record in Oregon’s Great Basin country,” presented at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, 1996, Lake Tahoe, CA, (Oct. 10-13, 1996).

“Channel unit assemblages in small upland streams: human vs. natural influences,” presented at Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina  (April 1996).

“Channel adjustment: a comparison of response following natural and human disturbance,” by F.J. Magilligan and P.F. McDowell, presented at Geological Society of America annual meeting, New Orleans, LA  (Oct. 1995).

“Thinking globally: Geomorphic change since the Last Glacial Maximum,” presented at Association of American Geographers annual meeting, San Francisco, California (April 1995).

"Historical variations in playa lakes of the Harney Basin, Oregon,"  presented at Association of American Geographers annual meeting, San Diego, California (April 1993).

"Late Quaternary climatic history and lake-level fluctuations in south-central Oregon," presented to Department of Geology, Portland State University, (May 1992).

"Geomorphology in Global Change Research", presentation in panel discussion "The Reenchantment of Geomorphology: the Future of Geomorphology," presented at Association of American Geographers annual meeting, San Diego, California (April 1992).

"Reconstructing the global soil landscape at 18,000 yr B.P.," presented at Late Quaternary Paleoclimate Boundary Conditions Workshop, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, (November 1991).

"Environmental controls of playa status and processes, western U.S.," P. McDowell, P. Bartlein, and S. Harrison, presented in Symposium on Quaternary Climatic Change in Arid and Semi-arid Western North America -- Evidence from the Great Basin, Desert Southwest, and Great Plains, at Geological Society of America annual meeting, San Diego, CA, (October 1991).

"Sensitivity of arid landscape wetland features (playas, lakes, and marshes) to climatic variations," presented at Symposium on Predicting Future Desertification from Paleoecological Evidence at Ecological Society of America annual meeting, San Antonio, TX, (August 1991).

"Controls of playa deflation and lunette formation in the northern Great Basin," presented (in absentia) at Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Miami, Florida (April 1991).

"A 300,000-year record of loess and paleosols in the Yukon Flats Basin, northeastern interior Alaska, U.S.A.", invited presentations at the Institute of Physical Geography, Uppsala University, (March 1991), and at Institute of Quaternary Geology, Lund University (April 1991), Sweden.

"Landscape response to past and future climatic changes in the northern Great Basin, U.S.A.", invited presentation, Dept. of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C. (February 1991).

"Climatic controls of past environmental change in the northwestern Great Basin," presented (in absentia) at the Great Basin Archaeological Conference, Reno, NV (October 1990).

"Present and past climatic and hydrologic contexts of lunette/playa systems in North America," presented at Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Toronto, Canada (April 1990).

"Understanding global climatic change through Quaternary Geomorphology," presented (in absentia) at the American-Bulgarian Seminar on Regional Economic Development and Geographical Aspects of Environment Management, Varna, Bulgaria (October 1989).

"Geomorphic response to CO2-induced warming in interior Alaska: Quaternary analogs," presented at Association of Pacific Coast Geographers annual meting, Fairbanks, Alaska (September 1989).

"Sedimentary and pedogenic evidence for Late Quaternary climatic variations in a loess sequence, northeast interior Alaska," P. McDowell and M. E. Edwards, presented at 18th Annual Arctic Workshop, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada (April 1989).

"Lacustrine and eolian influences on Holocene soil development in the basins of southeastern Oregon," J. Benjamin and P. McDowell, presented at Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Phoenix, AZ (April 1988).

"Chemical enrichment of soils at archaeological sites: Some Oregon case studies,"  presented at Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Phoenix, AZ (April 1988).

"The geomorphology of Elk Creek Valley, Oregon,"  J. E. Benjamin and P. F. McDowell, presented at Symposium on Archaeological Research in Elk Creek Valley and Southwest Oregon, Northwest Anthropological Conference, Tacoma, WA (March 1988).

"Lunettes in the Northern Great basin, U.S.A.: Distribution, age and paleoclimatic significance," presented at International Quaternary Association, 12th Congress, Ottawa, Canada (August 1987).

"Archaeological evidence for Holocene estuary development and sand dune activity at Tahkenitch Lake, Oregon," with R. L. Greenspan, R. Minor, and K. A. Toepel, presented at Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX (November 1986).

"The geomorphic surface concept in the Willamette Valley: a review and critical evaluation," presented at Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting, Eugene, OR (September, 1986).

"Eolian dunes in southeastern Oregon: a regional overview," presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN (May 1986).

"Morphology and stratigraphic context of Holocene dunes, Lake County, Oregon," Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 16(6): 588 (1984).

"Loess stratigraphy and landscape development, Yukon Flats area, interior Alaska," with M. E. Edwards, Abstracts and Program of the American Quaternary Association 8th Biennial Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, p. 80 (1984).

"Late-Quaternary environments in the southern Yukon Lowland, northeastern interior Alaska," M. E. Edwards and P. F. McDowell, VI International Palynological Conference Abstracts, Calgary, Alberta (1984).

"Geomorphic activity, climatic history and human occupation in southeastern Oregon pluvial lake basins," with J. A. Willig, Abstracts and Program of the American Quaternary Association 8th Biennial Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, p. 81 (1984).

"Geomorphic setting of archaeological sites, southern Willamette Valley, Oregon," presented at Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, Portland, OR (April 1984).

"Quaternary stratigraphy, Yukon Flats area, Alaska," with M. E. Edwards, presented at Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Washington, D. C. (April 1984).

"Influence of climatic anomalies on suspended sediment discharge,"  presented at Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Denver, Colorado (April 1983).

"Environment and archaeological site location: a multivariate test, Merrimack River Valley, New Hampshire and Massachusetts," with V. B. Kenyon, Abstracts and Program of the American Quaternary Association 7th Biennial Meeting, Seattle, Washington, p. 114, (July, 1982).

"Thresholds and geomorphic disequilibrium: estimating response and relaxation time in fluvial systems," presented at Association of American Geographers annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas (April, 1982).

"The environmental setting of prehistoric occupation sites in the Merrimac River Valley, New Hampshire and Massachusetts," with V. Kenyon, presented at the New England Anthropological Association annual meeting, Princeton, NJ (March 1982).

"Intervention analysis of sediment yield response to major floods," presented at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Los Angeles (April 1981).

"Detecting the influence of climatic variations on surface water quality: the Blackstone River, Massachusetts," Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 13(3): 165 (1981).

"Holocene fluvial activity in Brush Creek watershed in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin," Abstracts with Program of the American Quaternary Association 6th Biennial Meeting, Orono, Maine, p. 135 (August 1980).

"Sedimentology of fluvial deposits of a small stream: Brush Creek, southwestern Wisconsin," presented at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Louisville, KY (April 1980).

"Stream activity and climatic change during the Holocene in southwestern Wisconsin," presented at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA (April 1979).

Reviews:

Reviews of manuscripts, proposals and reports for National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Annals of the AAG, Quaternary Research, Random House, Inc., Mosby-Yearbooks Pub., Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co., Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, etc.

Review of Landscape, An Introduction to Physical Geography by W. N. Marsh and J. Dozier, Professional Geographer 33(4): 500-501 (1981).

Review of Earth and Man: A Systematic Geography by D. Steila, D. C. Wilms, and E. P. Leahy, Journal of College Science Teaching 11(4): 257 (1982).

Research Grants:  

Bonneville Power Administration, Columbia Basin Fish and Wildife Program, 2000-2001

University of Oregon Williams Fund, 1998, 2000

U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water and Watersheds Program, 1996-1999

U. S. Forest Service, Umatilla National Forest, 1994-5; 1997-8

National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Program, 1995-1997

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Global Programs, 1992-95

Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, 1988-89, 1990-91, 1992-93

The Nature Conservancy, 1987-1991

University of Oregon Summer Faculty Research Awards, 1983, 1987

Recent Professional Activities:

Member, Advisory Board, Riparian Working Group of the Society for Ecological Restoration Northwest Chapter, 1998- present.

Member, Editorial Board, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1994-96

Member, Board of Directors, Oregon Water Resources Research Institute, 1991-1994.

Participant, NOAA Workshop on Late Quaternary Paleoclimate Model Boundary Conditions, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, Nov 1991.

Participant, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Paleoclimatic Modeling, Saclay, France, May 1991.

Natural Science Research Council Guest Scientist, Department of Physical Geography, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, March-June 1991.

Chair, Geomorphology Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 1990-91.

Guest Scientist, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Global Hydrology Project), Laxenburg Austria, July 1990.

Participant, 1990 International Workshop on Circumpolar Climate Dynamics and Vegetation Change, Sigtuna, Sweden, June 1990.

Participant, 1989 Global Change Institute, sponsored by University Consortium for Atmospheric Research, Snowmass, Colorado. July 1989.

Member, Publications Committee for 1992 International Geographical Congress, Association of American Geographers, 1989-92.

Member, State of Oregon Governor's Watershed Enhancement Board Advisory Committee, 1987-1990.

Graduate Education:

Ph. D., University of Wisconsin-Madison:  specialization in geomorphology and climatology; minor in Department of Soil Science; thesis on "Holocene fluvial activity in Brush Creek watershed, Wisconsin" (J. C. Knox, major professor; G. Dury, W. Brinkmann, F. Hole (Geography and Soil Science), D. Mickelson (Geology), and R. Dott (Geology), committee members).

M. C. R. P., Illinois Institute of Technology:  thesis on "Changes in farm size in east central Illinois: economic theory and implications for regional planning," (P. A. Thomas, adviser; D. Korling and D. Bielenberg, examiners).

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Department and University Service:

University and College Committees:

Environmental Studies Executive Committee, 1991-1994, 1997-1999, 2000-2001

Institute for a Sustainable Environment Board, 1993-present

Internal Review Committee, Ten Year Program review for Department of Geological Sciences, 1998

Search Committee, Vice Provost for Research, 1998

Womens Faculty Resource Network, 1997-present

Planning for Excellence Advisory Committee (to Vice Provost for Research), 1997-98

Environmental Science Track Planning Committee, 1997-1998

Honors College Executive Committee, 1995-1996

Environmental Studies Committee, 1983, 1986-present;

Institute for a Sustainable Environment Planning Committee, 1992-1993

University Senate, 1991-1993

Committee on the Status of Women, 1983-1987; chair 1985-1987

Search Committee for CAS Dean, 1986-7

Faculty Research Committee, chair, 1990-1994

Strategic Planning Research Action Team, 1991-92

Committee for Planning and Selecting Scholarly and Creative Development Awards, 1992

Department Committees (all Geography unless otherwise noted):

Search Committee, 2000-01

Search Committee (ENVS), Environmental Studies-Geological Sciences joint faculty hire, 1999-2000

Director of Graduate Studies, 1997-present

Faculty Personnel Committee, 1997-present (chair, 1997-98)

Search Committee for Biogeographer, chair, 1987-88, 1989-90

Equipment Supervisor, 1982-1993

Affirmative Action Representative, 1982-1987

United Way Representative, 1983-1985

Library Representative, 1983-1987

Graduate Admissions Committee, 1983-1986; 1992-93