At times, I’ve agreed to leadership roles.
Leadership
2025-Present: The Thoreau Alliance, Chair, Committee on Nominations and Elections. I oversaw a historic membership vote by The Thoreau Society to merge with the Thoreau Farm Trust to create the Thoreau Alliance, an umbrella organization.
2022-present: The Thoreau Society, Board of Directors (elected). Second 3-year term. I previously chaired its Committee on Collections and now chair its Committee on Nominations and Elections. I am an advisory editor for its scholarly journal The Concord Saunterer.
2017-present: Connecticut Center for the Book (a Library of Congress affiliate). Chair of its Nonfiction Jury for multiple terms. Temporarily on hold.
2011-2012: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vice President. The bylaws require that the President be at Yale in New Haven.
1987-1988: Geological Society of America – Geoarchaeology Division, Chairman – Denver, CO.
1986-1997: Connecticut State Museum of Natural History. Board Member and Secretary.
1986-1988 Connecticut Low-Level Radioactive Waste Advisory Committee, Connecticut Hazardous Waste Management Service,Vice Chair in charge of the technical siting process.
1982-1984 Alaska Quaternary Center, University of Alaska. Founding director.
Committee Work
2006-present: Connecticut Center for the Book, Member, Advisory Board.
2006-2012: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Publications Committee
2006-2008: Connecticut Science Center, Exhibit Design, Technical Consultant.
2002-2005: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Selection Panels: Star Dissertation Fellowships, Washington D.C.
1998-2003. U.S. Geological Survey, Connecticut Institute of Water Resources, Technical Advisory Board (Connecticut).
Professional Societies
Those with an asterisk indicate lapsed activity.
American Antiquarian Society (Elected)
Thoreau Society (TS)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Geological Society of America (GSA)
*Council for Northeastern Historical Archaeology (CNEHA)
*Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
*North American Lake Management Society (NALMS)
*International Quaternary Association (INQUA)
American Quaternary Association (AMQUA)