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Past Service

My complete record of service on behalf of University of California

I have always believed in pro bono service to the community, and since UC has been my primary community for my professional career, I do a lot of service to benefit and sustain campus life. Below I organize my service from the most local level within the hydrology program in my deparment to the broadest regional level across all UC campuses. I do not do services at all levels all at the same time, but over the years I have shifted around to provide service at different levels where I think I can make a meaningful contribution or where I am requested to serve.

The highlight of my past service was certainly serving as chair of the UC Davis Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility.  In that role I defended the academic freedom of several individual faculty members, even in the face of imappropriate aggressive behavior and strong opposition from high-level administrators.  In that role I also spearheaded the largest expansion in academic freedom in the history of the UC system.  It took four years, but in July 2013 the UC Regents approved the reform.  All previous notions of academic freedom limited the application of the idea to just one's area of scholarship.  Prior to this, the biggest change was to no longer require "dispassionate" scholarship.  However, academic freedom is no longer shackled to scholarship.  UC faculty are now free to speak on all institutional matters, whether they are within our sphere of scholarship or not.  We may do so using any forum or medium.  

UCD LAWR Hydrology Program

  • Member, Teaching committee, 1998-2000
  • Member, Seminar series committee, 1999-2000
  • Member, Staff replacement search committee, 2001
  • Organizer, Veihmeyer Hall room 108 and 228 room renovations, 2000-2002
  • Chair, Seminar series committee, July 2001-June 2002
  • Member, Aquatic chemistry faculty search committee, 2001-2002
  • Organizer, Veihmeyer Hall bathroom renovations, 2007-2008
  • Organizer, Veihmeyer Hall room 127, 223, and 233 office renovations, 2008
  • Organizer, Veihmeyer Hall reverse osmosis drinking water line, 2009
  • Member, Water resources management cooperative extension specialist search committee, 2011
  • HYD undergraduate major master advisor, July 2001-June 2003, July 2004-2011
  • Chair, Integrated hydrologic scientist faculty search committee, 2012-2013
  • Organizer, Veihmeyer Hall major spring clean out, 2013

UCD Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources

  • Member, LAWR information technology committee, 1998-2000
  • Member, LAWR advisory council committee, 1998-2000
  • Member, LAWR undergraduate teaching committee, 2000
  • Member, LAWR Geoprobe policy committee, 2000-2001
  • Member, LAWR field safety committee, 2001
  • Member, Veihmeyer Hall space committee, 2002
  • Member, ERS Major curriculum committee, 2005
  • Chair, LAWR strategic plan working group #3, 2005
  • Chair, Resources strategic planning committee, 2005-2006
  • Member, Executive strategic planning committee, 2005-2006
  • Chair, Sierra-to-sea integrated research standing committee, 2005-2006
  • Technical staff needs review committee, 2013-2014

Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Group

  • Chair, Hydrologic Science Graduate Group web site committee, 1999-2004
  • Member, HSGG admissions application review committee, 1999-present
  • Chair, Hydrologic Science Graduate Group, 2011-2016
  • Graduate Advisor, HSGG, 2011-2016
  • Member, HSGG admission committee, 2011-2016
  • Programmer, HSGG web site 2012-2016

Ecology Graduate Group

  • Member, EGG admissions application review committee, 2011-2015, 2017-2019

UCD College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

  • Member, CA&ES executive committee, 2005-2008
  • Member, CA&ES term appointment review committee, 2010-2012
  • Member, CA&ES rules and jurisdiction committee, 2012-2013
  • Chair, CA&ES term appointment review committee, 2012-2013
  • Chair, CA&ES rules and jurisdiction committee, 2013-2014
  • Member, CA&ES executive committee, 2017-2020
  • Chair, CA&ES rules and jurisdiction committee, 2018-2021
  • Chair, CA&ES faculty executive committee, 2018-2019
  • Chair, COACHE faculty satisfaction survey review committee, 2018
  • Member, CA&ES Dean's council, 2018-2019

UC Davis University-wide

  • Chair, Real-time Monitoring Of The Environment (REMOTE) Program, 1999-2005 
  • Member, Ecotoxicology Program executive committee, 2001-2002
  • At-large member, Academic senate representative assembly, 2001-2002
  • Member, Boating safety discussion group, 2005-2006
  • Member, Academic senate library committee, 2007-2008
  • Ex Officio member, Academic senate representative assembly, 2008-2012
  • Chair, Academic senate committee on academic freedom and responsibility (CAFR), 2008-2012
  • Member, Academic Senate Executive Council, 2008-2012
  • Assisted University Registrar with determining placement of internet-sync'd clocks in classrooms, 2014
  • Member, Academic Senate Executive Council, 2018-2019
  • Member, Academic Senate Representative Assembly, 2018-2019

UC Systemwide

  • University committee on academic freedom (UCAF), 2008-2012