Student Helper, Fisheries Research Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 6/78-8/78 Assist in baseline survey in bays of Kodiak Island, Alaska. Sampled ichthyoplankton with four types of gear, sampled fish with beach seine, gill net, and trawl. Assisted with sampling and data recording of fish stocks with gill nets, beach seine, and trawl.
Student Helper, Fisheries Research Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 12/77-6/78 Sampled and sorted benthos form a small woodland stream.
Fisheries Biologist, Fisheries Research Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 6/77-9/77 Supervised sampling of catch on Japanese mother ship in Bering Sea. Collected and tabulated data on species composition, catch size, length frequency, sampled scales and otoliths. Data submitted to NMFS with final report and log.
Student Helper, College of Fisheries, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 1/77-6/77 Maintained and coordinated use of 15,000-gallon cold water marine aquarium used in research projects. Maintained inventory of glassware for trace metal studies, library search.
Guide, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Peck, Montana. 6/76-9/76 Corps representative to public; regularly guided tours through hydroelectric power plant.
Faculty Senate, Kentucky State University, 2018-2020. Vice Chair of the Budget and Academic Support Committee. Vice Chair of the Academic Policy Committee Southern Regional Aquaculture Center – (KY Rep), Technical Advisory Council 2016 - 2019 Kentucky Academy of Science 2015-2018 Search Committee Chair, Assistant Professor of Food Science and Value-Added Technology, Kentucky State University, CAFSSS, 2017 Member, World Aquaculture Society 2000-2009, 2011-2019 Member, KY Farm Bureau 2016-2020. Member, West Virginia Aquaculture Association 1999-2014 Member, US Trout Farmers Association 2003-2014 Member, Aquaponics Association, 2012. Member, WV Farm Bureau, 2008 - 2014. Vice Chairman, Aquaculture Advisory Board, WV Department of Agriculture 2011 - 2014 Aquaculture Advisory Board, WV Department of Agriculture 2010 -2014. WVU Aquaculture Project Leader, since 2007, Davis College of Agriculture, Forestry and Consumer Sciences Member, Northeast Regional Aquaculture Center- Technical Advisory Council, 2006 – 2009. Member, American Fisheries Society 1975-2010. Treasurer, West Virginia Aquaculture Association. 2005 - 2011 Member, WVAA Board of Directors, 2005 – 2007. Regular Member of the graduate faculty, WVU, 2006 - 2015 Hocking College, Advisory meeting for the Fish Management & Aquaculture Curriculum, 2/22/11 and 2/28/2006.
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