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Service

Departmental Committees

  • Undergraduate advisor for Biology/Botany programs (1990-1996) Long-Range Planning Committee, 1992 BPP Department Seminar Committee, 1992-93 Graduate Studies Committee, 1993-1995
  • Lew Roth Forest Committee, 1994-1996

Professional Activities and Achievements

  • Program Chair, Ecological Society of America, 1999-2000.
  • Member, Ecosystems Studies Panel, National Science Foundation, 1997-1999.
  • President and Director, Soil Foodweb, Inc. Corvallis, OR, 1996-present
  • Scientific Advisor, Edmonds Institute, Edmonds, WA, 1995-present
  • Director, Soil Microbial Biomass Service, 1991-present
  • High School Saturday Academy Mentor: Jodie Hanson - Summer 1994-1995; Karen Canham - Summer 1995; McHale Brerr 1996.
  • Future Meetings Committee, Ecological Society of America, 1994-1997
  • Vice President, Soil Ecology Section, Ecological Society of America, 1993-1995
  • Chair, Western Chapter of the Ecological Society of America, 1991-1993
  • Newsletter Editor, Soil Ecology Newsletter, 1992-1995.
  • President, Soil Ecology Society, 1989-1992
  • Organizing Committee: Role of Soil Organisms in Ecosystem Diversity, Michigan State University, May 1993.
  • Organizing Committee: Ecological Effects of Transgenic Plants, University of Maryland, Nov 1992.
  • Organized Soil Ecology Society meetings: Resolving Global and Microscopic Scales of Resolution.
  • SMILE seminar for middle-school teachers: "Teaching ecology to grade school students," Department of Continuing Education, Oregon State University, 1989.
  • Senior independent research in population ecology, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, Spring 1974.
  • Exchange Student, Cambridge University, England, 1972-1973.

Professional Society Memberships

  • AAAS, 1995-1996
  • American Society for Microbiology, 1977-1986
  • Ecological Society of America, 1983-present
  • Restoration and Conservation Biology Cooperative Project, 1990-1993
  • Soil Ecology Society, 1988-present
  • Reviewer Scientific Journals: Applied and Environmental Microbiology; Biology and Fertility of Soil; Bioscience; Canadian Journal of Microbiology; Ecology and Ecological Monographs; Israel Journal of Plant Protection Sciences; Pedobiologia; Plant and Soil; Soil Biology and Biochemistry; Soil Science Society of America; Tropical Ecology.
  • National Science Foundation Reviewer: Divisions of Biological Research Resources; Ecology; Ecosystems Studies; Israeli-US; Binational Science Foundation; Biological Instrumentation.
  • USDA Competitive grants.

Community Service

  • Corvallis Rotary Club, 1997-1998
  • Board member: Mid-Valley Gymnastics, 1989-90
  • Board member: Heart of the Valley Children's Choir, 1991-94
  • Choir Festival Program Chair, Summer 1994
  • Race official for High School Ski Team: 1994-1995

 

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Benefits of the Soil foodweb

The soil food web is a complex, interdependent, mutually beneficial group of organisms

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