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Associate Editor: Fire Ecology, Fire, Ecological Processes

Manuscript Reviewer: Biological Conservation, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Ecological Applications, Ecological Monographs, Ecological Processes, Ecology, Ecosphere, Fire, Fire Ecology, Forest Ecology and Management, Functional Ecology, Geophysical Research Letters, Global Ecology and Biogeography, International Journal of Wildland Fire, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Forest Research, Landscape Ecology, Madroño, New Forests, Northwest Science, Plant Ecology, PLoS ONE, Princeton University Press, Remote Sensing of Environment, Restoration Ecology, Science of the Total Environment, Smithsonian Institution, University of California Press, Western North American Naturalist, University of California Press, US Forest Service, US Geological Survey, US National Park Service.

Current Graduate Committee Chair
Kendall Becker (PhD, USU Ecology)
Casey Snider (PhD, USU Forestry)
Sara Germain (PhD, USU Ecology)
Soren Struckman (PhD, USU Ecology)

Current Graduate Committee Member
Douglas Hardman (PhD, University of Idaho Natural Resources)
Megan Licht (PhD, USU Biology)
Jessica Murray (PhD, USU Biology)
Jan Ng (PhD, UC Davis, Ecology)
Alexander Howe (PhD, USU Ecology)
L. McKinley Nevins  (PhD, Washingon State University, Plant Biology)
Jamela Thompson (MS, USU Ecology)

Past Graduate Committee Chair
Tucker Furniss (PhD, USU Ecology, 2021)
Jelveh Tamjidi (USU Ecology, 2020)
Erika Blomdahl (USU Ecology, 2018)
Camile Stephens (USU MNR, 2017)
Tucker Furniss (USU Ecology, 2016)
Kendall Becker (UW Ecosystem Analysis, 2014)

Past Graduate Commitee Member
Camilo Jose Fagua (PhD, USU Ecology, 2018)
Sean Jeronimo (PhD, UW Ecosystem Analysis, 2018)
Nate Hough-Snee (PhD, USU Ecology, 2016)
Susan Dickerson-Lange (PhD, UW Civil Engineering, 2016)
Mark Raleigh (PhD, UW Civil Engineering, 2013)
Cody Dangerfield (MS, USU Ecology, 2020)
Kevin Turnblom (MNR, USU, 2015)
Kael Martin (MS, UW Civil Engineering, 2012)

Grant Review:   2020 Czech Science Foundation, 2020 Canadian Research Chairs Program, 2017 NSF Arctic Science (Panel), 2017 Joint Fire Science Program (Panel), 2016 Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, 2015 National Science Foundation, 2014 Arizona Mission Research Board, 2010 School of Forest Resources Research Equipment Grants (Chair), 2009 Kearney Foundation Grants, 2009 CTFS Research Grants (Panel).

Utah State University: Graduate Council (2018 - present).

College of Natural Resources: Undergraduate scholarship committee (2018 - present).

Wildland Resources Department: Faculty adviser, Xi Sigma Pi (2013 - present); Curriculum Committee (2014 - present). Tenure and Promotion committees: Larissa Yocom, Justin DeRose, Darren McAvoy, Clark Rushing.

Advisory Committee: National Ecological Observation Network (NEON), plant biomass and productivity sampling design (2013 - present).

Symposia: ESA 2012: Global Comparisons in Forest Dynamics: Results from Permanent Plots (organizer and moderator); Smithsonian Dimensions of Biodiversity, Seattle (host).

Professional Society Memberships: Association for Fire Ecology, Society of American Foresters, Ecological Society of America

Awards: 2020-2021 QCNR Researcher of the Year, 2017-2018 QCNR Graduate Mentor of the Year, 2011 DISCCRS VI Scholar (Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate-Change Research); 2010 School of Forest Resources award for outreach and public relations; 2012, 2011 School of Forest Resources award for most grant revenue generated by staff.