Professional Service
- LaACER Project understanding past climate change in tropical America. Role: Scientific Steering Committee. Exploring millennial-scale climate variability over the last glacial period in tropical and subtropical America. 12/2012 - 12/2013
- International Multiproxy Paleofire Database Co-Chair. Co-Chair for IMPD, a NOAA sponsored program, assigned to solicit and manage fire history records from sedimentary archives. 05/2009 - present
- Global Palaeofire Working Group. Scientific Steering Committee and database management. 08/2006 - present
Internal Service
- Superior Research Award selection committee. Evaluation and selection of candidates, 03/2013 - present. College service.
- Global Change Ecosystem Center Steering Committee. College of Social and Behavioral Science Representative, 09/01/2010 - 05/01/2011. University service.
Community Partnership
- Salt Lake City Invasive Weed Control: Urban Habitat Group. 09/2009 - present
Outreach
- Public school programs, Scientist in the Spotlight and Youth Teaching Youth programs at the Natural History Museum of Utah. 08/01/2008 - present
Affiliations
- International Multiproxy Paleofire Database (IMPD), Co-Chair, 06/01/2010 - present
- Global Palaeofire Working Grouop (GPWG), Scientific Steering Committee, 08/01/2008 - present
In the Media
- 2019 Nature publication: Past Climate Change: a warning for the future https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190617164652.htm https://www.climatechange.ie/past-climate-change-a-warning-for-the-future/ https://unews.utah.edu/past-climate-change-a-warning-for-the-future/ . 06/17/2019. https://unews.utah.edu/past-climate-change-a-warni...
- Utah State Legislature Natural Resources Committee Meeting to discuss HB77 - introducing the concept of climate change and wildfire suppression ammendments. 02/2013. http://utahlegislature.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.ph...
- Utah Climate Change Bill (HB77) to address the impacts of changing wildfires in the western U.S. Fox News coverage. 01/2013. http://fox13now.com/2013/02/04/climate-change-fire...
- New publication on decreasing fire activity during the Little Ice Age in the Americas: climate versus human causes. 08/2012. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/54576379-78/powe...
- Media coverage of recent PNAS publication on 800-year old raised field farmers in French Guiana . 04/10/2012. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/12040...
- Prehistoric raised-field farmers in French Guiana. 04/10/2012. http://www.voanews.com/english/news/environment/Ce...
- French Guiana research. 04/10/2012. http://news.discovery.com/earth/sustainable-farmin...
- KCPW News interview for the Nature of Things 2009 presentation: Challenges to Living in Prehistoric Americas: Climate Change, Fires, and the Arrival of Europeans. 02/19/2009. http://kcpw.org/blog/local-news/2009-02-19/remnant...