SERVICE

updated 12 October 1999

Service is an important part of academic life. Professors are expected to serve their departments, colleges, the university, the profession, and the community. I have always believed that service is important and have dedicated myself to providing service to many groups. I received a University Service Award in 1998.

FIU

Professional Societies

Other Service

FIU

Departmental Service - Biological Sciences - FIU

Chair, Space Committee. 1995--1997.
Member Search and Screen Committee - Geology. 1999.
Member Search and Screen Committee - Plant Molecular Systematist. 1998.
Member, Search and Screen Committee - Comparative Anatomist. 1995.
Member, Search and Screen Committee - Comparative Physiologist. 1994--95.
Member, Search and Screen Committee - Evolutionary Biologist. 1994--95.
Member, Academic Standing Committee. 1998--1999
Member, Glaser Committee. 1998--present
Member, Undergraduate Committee. 1998--1999
Member, Tropical Biology Committee. 1998--present
Member, Curriculum Committee. 1994--1998.
Member Space Committee. 1995--1998.
Member, Building Committee. 1995--1998.

College Service - Arts & Sciences - FIU

Member, Laboratory Committee (North Miami Campus) - 1994--present
Member, Faculty Senate - 1996--present

University Service

Board of Directors. Organization of Tropical Studies. 1997--present.
Member, Nominating Committee. Organization for Tropical Studies. 1997--1998, 1999-- present.
Mentor. Women's Center, Florida International University. 1995--1996.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIEITIES

Professional Service - American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

Board of Governors. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. 1988--1993, 1994--1999.
Chair, Long Range Planning and Policy Committee. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. 1999--present.
Chair, Gaige Committee. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. 1995--1996.
Chair, Nominating Committee. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. 1993--1994.
Chair, Student Awards Committee. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. 1993-- 1994, 1995--1996.
Chair, Ad-Hoc Committee on Stoye Award in Ecology and Ethology. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. 1997--1998.
Chair and Judge, Stoye Award--General Herpetology. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting. College Park, Pennsylvania. 1999.
Chair and Judge, Stoye Award--General Herpetology. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting. Guelph, Ontario, Canada. 1998.
Judge, Storer Award--Herpetology. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting. College Park, Pennsylvania. 1999.
Judge, Storer Award--Herpetology. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting. Guelph, Ontario, Canada. 1998.
Judge, Stoye Award--Ecology and Ethology. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1996.
Judge, Stoye Award--General Herpetology. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting. Edmonton, Canada. 1995.
Judge, Stoye Award--Genetics, Development, and Morphology. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting. Edmonton, Canada. 1995.
Judge, Stoye Award--General Herpetology. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, California. 1994.
Judge, Stoye Award--Ecology and Ethology. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting, Champaign, Illinois. 1992.
Judge, Stoye Award--General Herpetology. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting, New York, New York. 1991.
Member, Executive Committee. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. 1999-- present.
Member, Editorial Board. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. 1993--present.
Member, Gaige Committee. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. 1993--1995.
Member, Local Committee. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. New York, New York. 1991. On the following subcommittees: Publications, Housing.
Member, Long Range Planning and Policy Committee. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. 1995--1998.
Member, Nominating Committee. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. 1992-- 1993, 1997--1998.
Member, Resolutions Committee. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. 1997.
Moderator, Contributed Paper Session. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and Herpetologists' League Annual Meeting. College Park, Pennsylvania. 1999.
Moderator, Contributed Paper Session. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and Herpetologists' League Annual Meeting. Guelph, Ontario, Canada. 1998.
Moderator, Contributed Paper Session. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and Herpetologists' League Annual Meeting. Seattle, Washington. 1997.
Moderator, Contributed Paper Session. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and Herpetologists' League Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1996.
Moderator, Contributed Paper Session. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting. New York, New York. 1991.
Moderator, Contributed Paper Session. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting. Charleston, South Carolina. 1990.

Professional Service - Herpetologists' League

Judge, Student Paper Award. Annual Meeting. State College, Pennsylvania. 1991.
Member, Long Range Planning and Finance Committee. 1996--present.
Member, SSAR/HL/ASIH Liaison Committee. For the Herpetologists' League. 1996--present.
Moderator, Contributed Paper Session. Annual Meeting. Veracruz, Mexico. 1987.
Secretary. 1996--present.

Professional Service - Other Groups

ACA (Amphibian Conservation Alliance)
Board of Trustees. 1997--present.

ATB (Association for Tropical Biology)
Moderator, Contributed Paper Session. Annual Meeting. Gainesville, Florida. 1985.

NSF (National Science Foundation)
Panelist, Special Emphasis Advisory Panel for Dissertation Improvement Awards. Washington, DC. 1992.
Panelist, Special Emphasis Advisory Panel for Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program. Washington, DC. 1992.

OTS (Organization for Tropical Studies)
Member, Host Committee. Silver Anniversary Symposium. Organization for Tropical Studies, Inc. Coral Gables, Florida. 1988.

SSAR (Society for the Study of Amphibians & Reptiles)

Board of Directors (Class of 2001). 1999--present.
Member, Grants-in-Herpetology Committee. 1991--1994.
Moderator, Student Award Paper Session. Annual Meeting., College Park, Pennsylvania. 1999

WCH (World Congress of Herpetology)
Member, International Herpetological Committee. 1997--present.


WORKSHOPS/PANELS

Participant, Local Amerindian Knowledge of Amphibians and Reptiles of the Iwokrama Forest. Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Develoment. Kurupukari, Guyana. 1999.
Participant, Celebration of Tropical Biology in South Florida. The Kampong. Miami, Florida. 1999.
Participant, Committee on Graduate Student Participation (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists) Annual Symposium. Guelph, Ontario, Canada. 1998.
Participant, South Florida Water Management District and Florida Center for Environmental Studies. Groundwater impacts to isolated wetlands workshop. Palm Beach Gardens, FL. 1997.
Participant, Committee on Graduate Student Participation (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists) Annual Symposium. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1996.
Participant, IUCN Declining amphibian task force workshop for the climate and atmospheric working group. Corvallis, Oregon. 1996.
Participant, WWF-IITF conference on effects of global climate change on tropical ecosystems. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1995.
Participant, INBio-Guanacaste Conservation Area sponsored INBITTA workshop - Vertebrates (All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory). Heredia and Guanacaste Provinces, Costa Rica. 1995.
Participant, Workshop on All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1993.
Participant, Workshop on Standard Methods for Measuring Biodiversity: Amphibians. Arlington Virginia and Washington, DC. 1991.
Participant, Workshop on Declining Amphibian Populations in Lower Central America (Costa Rica- Panama). Heredia, Costa Rica. 1991.

Reviewer

Academic Press, 1994.
Alytes, 1995, 1997
American Midland Naturalist, 1991.
American Museum of Natural History (Novitates Series), 1994--1995.
American Museum of Natural History (T. Roosevelt Grants), 1992.
American Museum of Natural History (Bulletin Series), 1992.
American Naturalist, 1990, 1996.
American Zoologist, 1998.
Amphibia-Reptilia, 1998--1999.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 1998.
Biotropica, 1998.
Wm. C. Brown Publishers, 1995--1996.
Caribbean Journal of Science, 1993--1994.
Conservation Biology, 1994--1997.
Contributions to Herpetology, 1992.
Copeia, 1987--1988, 1991--1999.
Ecology/Ecological Monographs, 1988, 1990, 1999.
Herpetologica, 1991--1999.
Herpetological Monographs, 1995--1996
Herpetological Natural History, 1994, 1998.
Herpetological Review, 1997.
Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments, 1994.
Journal of Herpetology, 1991--1992, 1995--1999.
Journal of Tropical Ecology, 1993--1994, 1998--1999.
National Geographic Society, 1993, 1995.
National Science Foundation, 1995, 1997--1999.
Occasional Papers, Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1991.
Organization for Tropical Studies, 1989--1994, 1996.
Prentice Hall, 1997.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London -- Biological Sciences, 1998.
University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Zoological Sciences, 1999.

OTHER SERVICE

Community Service

Presentation of Paupa New Guiea. Fifth Grade Class. South Miami Elementary School. January 1999.
Participant. Online Guest for Science in the Rainforest. Turner Adventure Learning, Turner Educational Services, Inc. Two Sessions, April, 1996.
Presentation on Costa Rican Tropical Forests, Field trip course sponsored by the Gulliver Academy, Miami, Florida. May, 1994.
Presentation on Amphibians and Reptiles, Biology Class (7th Grade), Gulliver Academy,
Miami, Florida. March, 1994
Presentation on Tropical Amphibians and Reptiles, Environmental Studies Class (8th Grade), Gulliver Academy, Miami, Florida. October, 1993.