As members of the Penn State Community, we are committed to serving our College, the University, and our professions. Below is a summary of our current contributions in these areas.
Current College of EMS Contributions
Todd Bacastow
- Member and Past Chair, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Fixed Term and Research Faculty Advisory Committee
- Member and Past Chair, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Fixed Term and Research Faculty Promotion Committee
- Member and Past Chair, Department of Geography Fixed Term and Research Faculty Promotion Committee
Stephen Handwerk
- Member, Geography Department Alumni Program Group
Patrick Kennelly
- Member, Master's of GIS Admissions Committee
Anthony Robinson
- Member, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences e-Learning Council
- Member, Spreading the Word about EMS Committee
Steve Seman
- Member, Department of Meteorology Fixed-Term and Research Faculty Advisory Committee, 2010 - Present
- Member, Department of Meteorology Undergraduate Academic Program (UGAP) Committee, 2012-Present
Susan Spaugh
- Chair, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences United Way Committee
- Member, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Staff Advisory Committee
Ann Taylor
- Co-Chair, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences e-Learning Council
- Member, Executive Council
- Member, Dutton Institute Green Team
Sing Wong
- Co-Leader, Dutton Institute Green Team
- Member, EMS Diversity Council
Current University Contributions
Jennifer Babb
- Member, Web Liason Group
- Member, Accessibility Strategic Plan Task Force
Todd Bacastow
- Organizer, Penn State Veteran’s Day Celebration
Tim Bralower
- Department of Geosciences Executive Committee
- Earth and Mineral Science Executive Council
- Academic Advisor to Undergraduate Geoscience Club
- Faculty Sponsor for Fort Valley State-Penn State 3+2 Undergraduate Degree Program.
- Advisory Board of Earth and Environmental Systems Institute.
- Advisory Board of the Rock Ethics Institute
- Participated in Shake Rattle Rocks annually, 2002-2013
- Member Graduate Program Committee, 2012-
- Rover for Candidacy Exams, 2012-
- Department Outreach Coordinator, 2012-
- Member Materials Characterization Lab Leadership Team, 2012-
- Member, University Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2013-
- Member, Department Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2013-4
Stephen Handwerk
- Life Member, Penn State Alumni Association
- Member, Capitol Chapter, Penn State Alumni Association
- Member, Navy ROTC Alumni Interest Group
- Secretary, Penn State Military Appreciation Executive Committee
Anthony Robinson
- Member, Penn State MOOC Strategy Group
- Member, World Campus Graduate Faculty Capacity Group
Ann Taylor
- Senator, Penn State University Faculty Senate, 2007-present
- Member, Penn State MOOC Strategy Group
- Member, Penn State General Education Planning and Oversight Task Force, 2013-present
- Member, Penn State Online Coordinating Council
- Member, Penn State Online Coordinating Council, Faculty Engagement Sub-Committee
- Member, Penn State e-Education Council
- Member, Penn State Faculty Advisory Committee on Academic Computing
- Member, Penn State Instructional Technology Planning Committee, 2012-present
Sing Wong
- Member, Commission for LGBT Equity (2009-current)
- Member, Faculty Senate Subcommittee, Education Equity and Campus Environment
Current Professional Contributions
Richard Alley
- Member, National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences Committee on Understanding and Monitoring Abrupt Climate Change
- Member, National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences Committee on Climate, Energy and National Security
- Member, Steering Committee for the West Antarctic Ice Cores Project
Todd Bacastow
- National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement to Advance Geospatial Analyst Pedagogy, 2011 – present.
- Academic Advisory Committee, United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, 2010 to present.
- Faculty Associate, Legislative Office for Research Liaison, The Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 2000 – present.
Timothy Bralower
- Associate Editor, Marine Micropaleontology, 1995-.
- Associate Editor, Palaios, 1999-.
- Associate Editor, Terra Nova, 2012-
- Member, Operations Task Force, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (involved in scheduling drilling legs)
- Penn State Representative, Consortium for Ocean Leadership
- Distinguished Speaker, National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT), 2011-2014
- Australian-American Fulbright Scholarship Selection Committee, 2012-
- Advisory Board of NSF-CHRONOS program, 2004-.
- Steering Committee of NSF-GeoSystems program, 2004-.
- Scientific Ocean Drilling Subcommittee of the Ocean Leadership Board of Trustees, 2010-
- Organized 50 person InTeGrate Workshop on Programs that Bring Together Geosciences and Sustainability at Stanford University, 2012
Stephen Handwerk
- Member, United States Naval Institute
- Judge, Pennsylvania Geography Bee (state level finals)
Patrick Kennelly
- Editor, Cartographic Perspectives
- Editorial Board, The Cartographic Journal
- Editorial Board, The Journal of Maps
- Member, International Cartographic Association Publications Committee
Anthony Robinson
- Editorial Board Member, The Cartographic Journal
- Editorial Board Member, Cartographic Perspectives Journal
- Program Committee Member IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis)
- Program Co-Chair, 2014 Information Systems for Crisis Management and Response Conference
- Reviewer, U.S. National Science Foundation
- Reviewer, International Journal of Geographic Information Science
- Reviewer, Cartography and Geographic Information Science (CaGIS) Journal
- Reviewer, Transactions in GIS
- Reviewer, IEEE INFOVIS, VAST, IV, EUROVIS, and PacificVIS Conferences
- Reviewer, ACM Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference
- Reviewer, The Professional Geographer
- Reviewer, The Cartographic Journal
- Reviewer, Information Visualization
- Reviewer, Journal of Spatial Information Science
- Reviewer, Information Systems for Crisis Management (ISCRAM) Conference
- Reviewer, Risk Analysis
- Reviewer, Cartographica
- Reviewer, Cartographic Perspectives
- Reviewer, GeoCart Conference
- Reviewer, Kartographische Nachrichen
- Reviewer, The Applied Geography Conference
- Reviewer, Journal of Maps
- Reviewer, Semantic Web Journal
- Reviewer, ISPRS
Ron Santini
- Member, Certification Review Board, Academy of Board Certified Environmental Professionals
Ann Taylor
- Member, Editorial Board for eLearn Magazine, 2013 to present
- Reviewer, The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013 to present