• Carbon Cycle Science Steering Group, U.S. Interagency Climate Change Working Group, 2008-2013
• Chair-Elect, University Senate, 2010/2011
• Chair, University Senate, 2011/2012
• Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Reseach - Biogeosciences, 2005 to 2011
• Chair, Senate/President Merit Pay Review Task Force, 2009/2010
• Chair, Senate Faculty Affairs Committee, 2009/2010
• Associate Editor, Remote Sensing of Environment, 2014-present
• Co-Chair for the Science Definition Team, NASA's Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, 2013-2014

Former Students

• Alicia T. Joseph

  Research Physical Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Megan Weiner Lang

  Research Physical Scientist, USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory
• Edward J. Hyer

  Physical Scientist, Marine Meteorological Division, Naval Research Laboratory
• Elizabeth E. Hoy

  Support Scientist, NASA Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem Office