Committee Involvement

External to Nova Scotia Agricultural College

Academic Committee of Administrative Council 2000-2005
Administrative Council 2000-2005
Member of Faculty Council, 1982-present
Member of Selection Committee for new faculty in the Animal Science Department, 1982-1987, 1988-1989, 1995
Member of Animal Science Building Committee, 1983-1987.
Member of NSAC Animal Care Committee ACUC, 1983-1990.
Member of NSAC Library Committee, 1983-1987 (Chairman, 1985-1987).
Member of NSAC Social Committee, 1982-1988, 1990-1993 (Chairman, 1985-1988,1990-1992)
Member of Long Range Planning Committee for NSAC Farm, 1983-1991
Member - Standards and Admissions Committee for NSAC 1987-1991. (chairman 1988-1990)
Member - Graduate Committee 1991-1995
Member - Aquaculture option development committee 1992-1995
Member - Public relations committee 1993-1996.
Member - Principal Review Committee 1994.
Chair - Monogastric Section Committee 1997-2005
Member - Selection Committee for new Faculty in Math and Physics Department 1993, 1995.
Member - Selection Committee Field Crop Coordinator position Department of Plant Science, 1997.
Member - VP Academic Review Committee 1997-1998.
Chair - Farm Management Advisory Committee 1997-2005
Chair - Ruminant Section Committee 1997-2005

External to Nova Scotia Agricultural College:

Member, External Review Committee Agriculture Canada Swine Research Program Review, 1985 and 1990.
Member, Atlantic Provinces Advisory on Swine Research and Education, 1982-1999 (Chairman 1986-1988).
Member, Expert Committee on Animal Nutrition (ECAN), 1984-1993. (Chairman, Swine Subcommittee, 1986, 1987 and 1988, (Chairman ECAN 1989-1993).
Member, Canada Committee on Animal Production Services, 1989-1993.
Chairman, Organizing Committee for 2nd Western Nutrition Conference, Edmonton, Alberta (1981).
Director, Canadian Society of Animal Science (Eastern Branch) 1987-89.
Vice President, Canadian Scoeity of Animal Science 1989-1990.
President-Elect, Canadian Society of Animal Science, 1990-91.
President, Canadian Society of Animal Science 1991-1992.
Chairman Technical program, Canadian Society of Animal Science, 35th annual meeting1983, Truro, NS.
Chairman Technical program, Canadian Society of Animal Science 37th annual meeting 1985, Charlottetown, PEI
Chairman, Social Committee Canadian Society of Animal Science (EB) meeting June, 1988, Truro, NS
Director, Western Branch, Canadian Society of Animal Science, 1981-1982.
Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Animal Science, 1992-1998.
Atlantic Director, Eastern Nutrition Conference (ENC), 1993-2001.
Co-Chair Planning Committee (ENC) 1996 and ENC 2001 held in Halifax,
Eastern Canada correspondent for Pigs News and Information. C.A.B. 1984-present.
Nominations Committee, Canadian Society of Animal Science, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2001
Member, Nova Scotia Aquaculture Development Committee (NSADC) 1993-present.
Councillor, Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists (NSIA) 1994-1998
Chairman, Act Enforcement Committee NSIA 1994-1996, 1998-1999
Chairman, Election and Nominations Committee NSIA 1996.
Chairman Scholarship Committee, NSIA, 1997.
Member Dalhousie University Faculty of Graduate Studies Faculty Council 1993-94 (observer) 1994-1997.
Member Nutrition Sub Committee of New FinFish Species Development - New Brunswick Steering Committee 1994-1996.
Member NSADC Education Task Force 1996.
Member NSADC Shellfish Technical Sub-Committee 1993-1997.
Member NSADC Atlantic Marine Species Sub-Committee 1994-1997.
Member APICS Aquaculture Committee 1996-present. Organized the 1997 APICS Aquaculture Conference, Truro, March 1997.
Member Canada Committee on Animals 1997-2000.
Member APASCC Non-ruminant committee 1997-2001
Chair, Canada Committee on Animals, 1998-2006.
Member, Canadian Agrifood Research Council 1998-2006
Chair, Health Canada steering committee on policy development for Raw Foods of Animal Origin 1998-2001
Member CFI multidiscipinary Advisery Committee 2004-2006.
Co-chair Canadain Society of Animal Science, Canadian Society of Agronomy and Canadian Society of Horticulture Science joint conference Halifax, 2006, 2005-2006.
Member Dalhousie faculty of Graduate Studies 1993-present
Member Canadian AgriFood Research Council Board of Directors 2003-2006.