Outreach and Professional Service

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