Membership in Professional Societies:
The Wildlife Society (1995 – Present)
Ecological Society of America (1994 – 2011)
International Association of Landscape Ecologists (1998 – 2002)
Society for Conservation Biology (1999 – 2011)
— Education Committee (1999 – 2011)
— Newsletter Committee (1999 – 2002)
Association of Field Ornithologists (1998 – 2008)
— Abstractor for Journal of Field Ornithology, Current Literature section (2002-2004)
— Volunteer editor for Editorial Assistance program
Cooper Ornithological Society (1998 – Present)
— Student Participation Committee (2000 - 2002)
Wilson Ornithological Society (1998 – 2003)
American Ornithologists’ Union (1999 – Present)
American Society of Mammalogists (1994 – 2000)
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
— Associate Member (2000 – 2001)
— Full Member (2002 – Present)
Resource Modeling Association (2000 – 2002)
University Committees:
1999–2000 | Graduate Student Representative to the Graduate Research Council, Department of Zoology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma
2005–2006 | Member of the Outreach Committee for the Purdue Climate Change Research Center
2005–2006 | Member of the Planning Committee for the PCCRC & PUMA Undergraduate Conference of Weather and Climate Impacts
1999–2006 | Member of the Education Committee of the Society for Conservation Biology
Graduate Programs subcommittee 1999–2002
Literacy Guidelines subcommittee 1999–2005
1999–2002 | Member of the Newsletter Committee of the Society for Conservation Biology.
2000–2002 | Member of the Student Participation Committee for the Cooper Ornithological Society
2005–2006 | Member of the Publications Award Committee for The Wildlife Society
2006-Present |Member of the Central Flyway Webless Migratory Game Bird Technical Committee
2006-Present | Member of the Central Management Unit Technical Committee (Mourning Doves)
2008 | Secretary of the Central Management Unit Dove Technical Committee
2009 | Chair of the Central Management Unit Dove Technical Committee
2007 - Present | Member of the Prairie Grouse Technical Committee
2008 - Present | Chair of Nebraska Game & Parks Commission Climate Change Working Group