Recycling Sub-committee, Professional Concerns Committee 2008-2009: We assessed recycling programs on other small campuses and evaluated the economic costs and projected amount of recyclable materials. Results of the study were submitted to the Faculty Senate at KSU and to the president of the university.

Faculty Senate (2006-2009, 2011-2012), Parliamentarian and Executive Committee 2008-2009

I evaluated student posters and presentations for these prestigious awards given by the Ecological Society of America (ESA).

As Recording Secretary I have worked closely with Co-Chairs of the committee to provide the minutes of each meeting and also to help draft Action Items that were then forwarded to the Faculty Senate for a vote.

Salt River Watershed Watch, Trainer, (Spring 2006, 2007, 2011) and Steering Advisory Board I trained volunteers how to assess the health of a stream by measuring water chemistry and biology parameters as well as assessing habitat quality. Volunteers then collect data from streams within the Salt River Watershed and submit it to the Kentucky Division of Water.

Graduate Coursework: Advanced Population and Community Ecology

Evolution

Stream Processes

Advanced Behavioral Ecology

Stream Ecology

Advanced Biostatistics

Advanced Environmental Physiology

Ecology of Urban and Suburban Landscapes

Advanced Molecular Evolution

Environmental Law

I compared three different sampling devices in the capture of zooplankton living in riverine habitats.

I compared zooplankton community assemblages in two navigation pools of the Ohio River and the habitat and environmental parameters that influenced individual taxa population growth rates. I also conducted a large mesocosm experiment testing the effects of turbulence on zooplankton densities and grazing on phytoplankton.

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