Committees
2009-present | Working Group, Arctos Collaborative Collection Management Solution |
1998-present | Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of North and Middle American Birds, American Ornithological Society |
1997-present | Committee on Bird Collections, American Ornithological Society |
2015-2018 | Communications Committee, American Ornithological Society |
2010-2018 | Committee on Birds of North America Liason, American Ornithological Society |
2012-2015 | Board of Directors, Cooper Ornithological Society |
2012-2015 | Web Site Committee (Chair), Cooper Ornithological Society |
2005-2015 | Information Technology Advisory Committee, Berkeley Natural History Museums |
2005-2015 | Editorial Board, University of California Publications in Zoology |
2009-2013 | Committee for Nominations of Fellows and Elective Members, American Ornithologists’ Union |
2009-2010 | Committee for Selection of Travel Award Participants to International Ornithology Congress, Brazil, Cooper Ornithological Society representative |
2004-2008 | Special Affairs Committee on Early Professionals (Chair), American Ornithologists’ Union |
2002-2008 | Special Affairs Committee on Website, American Ornithologists’ Union |
2004-2005 | Information Technology Strategic Planning Committee, Berkeley Natural History Museums |
2003-2004 | Special Affairs Committee on Awards, American Ornithologists’ Union |
2003-2004 | Committee on Memorial Resolutions (memorial for Dr. Ned K. Johnson), UC Berkeley |
2001 | Painton Award Committee, Cooper Ornithological Society |
1994-2000 | Student Awards Committee (Chair, 1996-2000), American Ornithologists’ Union |
1997-1998 | Student Awards Committee, North American Ornithological Conference |

Reviewer – Journals
- American Naturalist
- Arctic Science
- Berkeley Scientific
- Bioaccoustics
- Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
- Canadian Journal of Zoology
- Conservation Biology
- Conservation Genetics
- Evolution
- Journal of Avian Biology
- Journal of Field Ornithology
- Journal of Heredity
- Molecular Ecology
- Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- Ornithological Monographs
- Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology
- PLoS Biology
- PLoS ONE
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B
- Science
- Smithsonian Scholarly Press
- The Auk: Ornithological Advances
- The Condor: Ornithological Applications
- Trends in Ecology and Evolution
- Western Birds
- Wilson Bulletin
- Zoological Studies
- Zootaxa
Reviewer – Grants
- National Geographic Society
- National Science Foundation (Systematic Biology program)
- National Science Foundation (Biological Research Collections program)
Featured image: AOU Council and COS Board at the 2014 annual meeting, Estes Park, Colorado.