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Opening Speaker, International Symposium on Colloids and Colloid-Facilitated Transport of Contaminants in Soil, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Foulum, Denmark, September 2002.

Keynote Speaker, Symposium on Colloidal Particles in Environmental Processes. American Chemical Society, Anaheim, California, April 1999.

Keynote Speaker, Symposium on Role of Humic Substances in Transport of Xenobiotics and Metals. 89th Annual Meeting of the Soil Science Society, Anaheim, California, October 1997.

Keynote Speaker, Symposium on Basic and Applied Research in Soil Science: Bridging the Gap. 89th Annual Meeting of the Soil Science Society, Anaheim, California, October 1997.

Keynote Speaker, Symposium on Isolation, Fractionation, Characterization and Reactivity of Environmental Colloids. Annual Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 1997.

Keynote Speaker, Symposium on Colloids and Colloid-Assisted Contaminant Transport at the XXII General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society in Vienna, Austria, April 1997.

Keynote Speaker and Session Chair, Workshop on Colloids in Groundwater, Swiss National Research Foundation's Priority Program for the Environment, Geneva, Switzerland, October 1995.

Keynote Speaker, Commission of European Community's Natural Analogue Working Group Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 1994.

Recipient of the Editor's Citation for Excellence in Technical Reviewing for Water Resources Research, presented by the American Geophysical Union, May 1993.

Organizing Committee and Session Chair, EPA Workshop on Groundwater Sampling. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, December 1993.

Organizer and Chairman, Symposium on Colloid-Facilitated Transport in Groundwater, American Geophysical Union, December 1992

Member of the United Nation's Environmental Program's Scientific Advisory Committee for the Marine Mammal Action Program.

Subprogram Coordinator for Colloid Research within the Subsurface Transport Program of the U.S. Department of Energy, 1986-1994.

Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Organic Substances in Soil and Water, Lancaster, UK, September 1992.

Keynote Speaker, International Humic Substances Society Meeting, Bari, Italy, September, 1992.

Organizer and Chairman of three international symposia on groundwater colloids: "Transport of Contaminants in the Subsurface: Role of Organic and Inorganic Colloidal Particles" (1986), "Mobility of Colloidal Particles in the Subsurface: Chemistry and Hydrology of Colloid-Aquifer Interactions" (1988), and "Concepts for Manipulating Groundwater Colloids for Environmental Restoration (1990).

Co-organizer of Symposium on Organics in Sediments (Biological Processes). American Chemical Society, Boston, Mass. April 1990.

Organizer and Co-chairman of a Symposium on Biological Markers of Environmental Contamination. American Chemical Society, Los Angeles, Calif., November 1988. Editor of Symposium Proceedings published by Lewis Publishers.

Keynote Speaker at the Symposium on the Effects of Aquatic Humics on the Fate and Treatment of Pollutants. American Chemical Society, Denver, Colo. April 1987.

Invited Presentations to National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Biological Markers (April 1986) and to NRC Committee on Animal Sentinels of Environmental Contamination (May 1988).

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