Selected Service Activities

A. John Arnfield – Selected Service Activities

Positions in Professional Organizations

  • Executive Committee Member, Climate Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, April 1987 – April 1990.
  • Full Member, Commission on Climatology, International Geographical Union, August, 1988 – January 2002.
  • Full Member, Subcommission on Local Climatology, International Geographical Union, August 1988 – August 1992.
  • Chair, Climate Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, April 1990 – April 1992.
  • Representative of the Association of American Geographers to Section W (Atmospheric and Hydrologic Sciences), American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1991-1993.
  • Member, American Meteorological Society, Committee on Biometeorology and Aerobiology, January 2000 – January 2003.
  • Ex-Officio Member, American Meteorological Society, Board on the Urban Environment, January 2000 – January 2003.
  • Secretary, International Association for Urban Climate, July 2000 – August 2003
  • Board Member, International Association for Urban Climate, July 2000 – present.
  • Member, “Paper of the Year” Adjudication Committee, Climate Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, March 2002 – present.

Service Related to Organization of Professional Conferences

  • Local Organizer, International Geographical Union, Commission on Climatology, Pre-Congress Meeting, University Park, PA, 3-8 August, 1992.
  • Editor, Proceedings of the International Geographical Union, Commission on Climatology, Pre-Congress Meeting, University Park, Pennsylvania, 3-8 August, 1992 (published 1994).
  • International Congress on Biometeorology & Fourth International Conference on Urban Climate, Sydney, Australia, 8-12 November, 1999.
    • ICB-ICUC International Organising Committee (representing the International Geographical Union).
    • ICUC International Scientific Committee.
  • Fifth International Conference of Urban Climate, Łódź, Poland, 1-5 August, 2003.
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  • International Scientific Committee
  • Sixth International Conference on Urban Climate, Göteborg, Sweden, 12-16 June, 2006.
    • International Scientific Committee

Other Service

  • Founder, administrator and moderator of CLIMLIST, an international distribution list and directory of electronic mail addresses for climatologists. October 1988 – August 2003.
  • Administrator of  urbclim (now met-urbclim), the urban climate list. September 2000 – June 2004.
  • Board of Directors, Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences-funded project, “Environmental Prediction for Canadian Cities” (PIs J.A. Voogt and T.R. Oke).

Recent Committee Appointments: The Ohio State University

  • Office of Academic Affairs, The Ohio State University, Review Committee, Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs (Fall, 1997 – Fall 2000).
  • Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Course Coordinator, Geography 210, Physical Geography and Environmental Issues (September 1999 – June 2003)
  • Webmaster, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University (September, 1995 – June 2003).
  • Visiting Speakers Committee, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University (September 1997 – June 2003).

 

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