Selected Participation, Past and Present, in Professional
Organizations, Including Those that I Support after My
Direct Participation has Ended
Smithsonian
Institution, Biodiversity Science and Education Initiative
Editor, Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied
Vegetation Science
North Carolina
Plant Conservation Board, Vice Chair
Board of the Center for Plant Conservation
Board of Discover Life in America, 2003-present, Chair,
2003-2007
Co-Chair of the
Science Committee, All Taxa Biodiversity
Inventory; see also The Science Plan (White
et al. 2000) and Statement for the Senate Hearing on the ATBI in Great
Smoky Mountains National Park (White
2008)
Ecological
Society of
Conservation
Committee, American Association of Botanical
Gardens and Arboreta
NatureServe, Scientific Advisors
Board of the Highlands Biological Station
IUCN Species
Survival Commission, North American Plant Specialist Group, Reintroduction
Specialist Group
Environmental
Defense, Horizon
2100 Report
Board, Triangle Land Conservancy
Board, North
Carolina Nature Conservancy
Editor, Ecology,
Ecological Monographs, Ecological Applications
Other worthy
organizations to support: Friends of
the Smokies, National Park Foundation, Coalition for National Parks, Saving Nature, EO Wilson Foundation, and OF COURSE
the North Carolina Botanical Garden.