Professional Activities

Dale H. Vitt

INVITED SEMINARS* AND TALKS

• 2006  Villanova University
• 2005  *Plenary talk, Botanical Society of America, Austin Texas
• *Symposium Organizer, Invited Talk – International Botanical Congress, Vienna, Austria
• *Plenary talk, Bryoplanet meetings, Budapest, Hungary
•  Ecological Society of America, Montreal, Québec, Canada
• 2003  *CEMA Oil Sands Restoration International Workshop, Ft. McMurray, AB, Canada
• 2002  *Peatland Conference 2002, Hannover, Germany
• *University of Gottingen, Germany
• *2nd International Workshop on Northern Peatlands: Role of Permafrost and Climate Change, Montreal, Quebec
• ABLS 2002, Storrs, Connecticut
• 2001  *Ecology Seminar, Southern Illinois Universitiy
• *Forestry Workshop, Edmonton, AB
• *Department of Botany, Duke University
• *IGBP Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• West Siberian Peatlands and Carbon Cycle, Noyabrsk, Russia
• 2000 *Wetlands, 2000, Quebec City
• *Goldar Consultants, Calgary, AB
• *Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
• *University of Alberta, Edmonton
• 1999 *South Saskatchewan River Basin Conference, Edmonton
• *Environmental Research and Studies Centre, Edmonton
• *International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, MO
• *Hedwig Symposium, Gottingen, Germany
• *Polaris Lecture, Univ. of Alaska, Anchorage
• NCE-SFM Annual Meeting, Edmonton, AB
• 1998* *European Bryophyte Conservation, Trondheim, Norway
• 1997 *IAB - Biennial Meeting, Beijing, China
• 1996 *Calgary Horticultural Society
• *IAB - Sphagnum Symposium, Quebec City
• *IAB - Peat Restoration Workshop, Quebec City
• *BBS - Conservation of Bryologists Symposium, Reading, UK
• *BBS - 100^th University Meeting, Glasgow

COMMITTEES AND APPOINTMENTS (* held at present)

• Co-Chair ­ Alberta Peat Taskforce (joint province, industry, university committee)
• Legacy Leader ­ Understanding Natural Disturbances - Sustainable Forest Management ­ Network of Centres of Excellence*
• Adjudication Committee - Stanley W. Greene Award in Bryology (IAB)*
• Advisory Board - Annales Botanici Fennici - Acta Botanica Fennica *
• Associate Editor - Ecoscience*
• Editorial Committee - Bryophyte Flora of China*
• Editorial Committee - Flora of North America, Bryophytes*
• Nomenclatural Committee-Bryophyta-International Association of Plant Taxonomists*

CURRENT OFFICES

• Editor-in-chief (1994-present) - The Bryologist (100+ ms processed, 700 pp. printed annually)
• Secretary-Treasurer (1987-present) - International Association of Bryologists

AWARDS

• Honorary Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Academia Sinica, Shenyang, China - 1995
• The J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research (University of Alberta) ­ 1994
• The Silver Award Medal of the University of Helsinki - 1993
• Killam Annual Professorship (University of Alberta) - 1992
• McCalla Professorship (University of Alberta) - 1988