PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientist of Manitoba (APEGM)
Canadian Quaternary Association (CANQUA)
Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists (CSPG)
Canadian Sedimentology Research Group (CSRG)
Division of Environmental Geosciences (DEG)
Geochemical Society
Geological Society of America (GSA)
Geological Association of Canada (GAC)
International Association of Hydrologists (IAH)
International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS)
International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry (IAGC)
International Paleolimnology Association (IPA)
Limnogeology Division (GSA)
Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC)
Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)
Societas Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL)
POSITIONAL & COMMITTEES IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
(past 15 years only)American Association of Petroleum Geologists: Membership committee; Section Representative; Founding member & advisor Manitoba AAPG Student Chapter
Aral Sea Paleohydrology Project: Canadian Co-ordinator
ASLO: Regional Representative for Climate Change in North America
Association of Professional Engineers of the Province of Manitoba: Advisor/examiner on Petroleum Geology, Sedimentation/Stratigraphy; Member Geoscience Issues Task Force (GITF)
BIOCAP Canada: Member of Working Group
CANQUA: Organizing Committee, Annual National Meeting
Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists: Founding member and member of National Liaison Committee
Geological Association of Canada: Chair, Exhibits Committee for National Meeting; Organiser & Co-Chair of Special Session on Continental Evaporites, Annual Meeting; Winnipeg Section GAC: Secretary; Program Chairman; Vice-President; Special Project Chairman; Geological Road Map Committee; Organiser & Co-Chair of Special Session on Northern Great Plains Paleolimnology, Annual Meeting; Organizer and Field Trip Leader: Salt Lakes of the Northern Great Plains, Annual Meeting
Geological Society of America: University & Section Representative, 1982-present; Organizer & Co-chair of special session on Northern Great Plains Paleohydrology; Annual Meeting; Organizer & Co-chair of special session on New Developments in Paleolimnology, Annual Meeting
International Geological Correlation Program, Project 219/324: Canadian Representative and National Coordinator; Conference Organizer & Co-chair of Sedimentary and Paleolimnological Records of Saline Lakes Conference
International Geological Correlation Program, Project 415: Working Group Leader - Aral Sea Paleohydrology
2nd International Congress of Limnogeology (Brest, France): Organizing Committee
International Union of Geological Sciences: Working Group on Geo-Indicators
Palliser Triangle Global Change Project: Advisory Committee, 1991-2000.
EDITING
(past 15 years only)
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology (published by CSPG, Calgary, Canada) Associate Editor
Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research (published by Springer): Monograph Series Co-Editor-in-Chief; Co-editor Volume 1: Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments: Basin Analysis, Coring and Chronological Techniques; Co-editor Volume 2: Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments: Physical and Geochemical Methods; Co-editor Volume 3: Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments: Terrestrial, Algal, and Siliceous Indicators; Co-editor Volume 4: Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments: Zoological Indicators.
Environmental Reviews (published by National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada): Associate Editor
International Journal of Lakes and Rivers (published by RIP): Associate Editor & Editorial Board
International Journal of Salt Lake Research (published by Kluwer Academic Publishers and Gleneagles Publishing): Editorial Board; Executive Editorial Board.
Journal of Paleolimnology (published by Springer): Co-Editor-In-Chief; Guest Co-Editor of Special Issue on Paleolimnology of the Northern Great Plains, and Co-Editor of Special Issue Lake Winnipeg Paleolimnology
Prairie Forum (published by Canadian Plains Research Center, Regina, Canada): Associate Editor and Advisory Board.
Saline Systems (published by BMC Independent Open Access): Editorial Board
Sedimentary Geology (published by Elsevier Science): Editorial Board
SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology): Co-editor of Sedimentology and Geochemistry of Modern and Ancient Saline Lakes (Special Publication No. 50).
Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series (published by Springer): Editorial board for Encyclopedia of Lakes and Reservoirs.