SERVICE & Engagement

Recent University Service (Selected)

• 2024 – Present, Member, Global Engagement Committee, College of Natural Resources, NCSU

• 2022 – Present, College of Natural Resources Representative, Galápagos Roundtable, NCSU

• 2022 – 2023, Chair, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee, NCSU

• 2021 – 2023, Member, College of Natural Resources, Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee, NCSU

• 2019 – 2020, Member, Asia Strategy Task Force, Office of Global Engagement, NCSU

• 2014 – Present, Director of Graduate Programs, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, NCSU

Recent Professional Service (SElECTED)

Journal Editorial Boards

• 2022 – Present, Associate Editor (Ecotourism Section) and Review Editor (Tourism, Climate & Global Environmental Consequences Section), Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism

• 2021 – Present, Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks

• 2018 – Present, Associate Editor, Journal of Leisure Research

• 2014 – Present, Associate Editor, Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism

• 2006 – Present, Associate Editor, International Journal of Wilderness

• 2005 – Present, Associate Editor, Journal of Park and Recreation Administration

Other Service

• 2024 – Present, Co-Chair, Trail Design and Stewardship Task Team, World Trails Network

• 2023 – 2024, Member, Protected Areas Management Effectiveness Evaluation Team, Parks and Wildlife Finland, Metsähallitus

• 2021 – Present, Member (Co-Lead, 2023), IUCN Delegation to Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) and Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP), Antarctic Treaty System

• 2021 – Present, Co-Focal Point, IUCN Resolution 130: Strengthening Sustainable Tourism’s Role in Biodiversity Conservation and Community Resilience

• 2021 – 2024, Co-Lead, Tourism Action Group (Ant-TAG), Standing Committee on the Humanities and Social Sciences (SC-HASS), Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)

• 2018 – Present, Technical Advisor, Make Our Hiking Trails Sustainable Project, Green Earth Hong Kong

• 2017 – Present, Member, International Steering Committee, International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitors in Recreational and Protected Areas (MMV)

• 2016 – 2023, Coordinator, Biodiversity Working Group, IUCN-WCPA Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group

• 2013 – 2018, Editor-in-Chief, IUCN Best Practice Guidelines on Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas

• 2005 – Present, Founding Member, Recreation Ecology Research Network

• 2003 – Present, Member, World Commission on Protected Areas, IUCN-International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland