Hazel Creek, in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina, April 2002; © M.J. Wetzel (INHS).
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Illinois Natural History Survey:

- Collections Resources Committee
- Library Committee

American Fisheries Society:

- Committee on Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic
Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: 1989 - present.

Society for Freshwater Science (formerly the North American Benthological Society):

- Literature Review Committee: 1979 - present; Committee Chair, 2010-present.
- Computer Information Committee: 1996 -1998.
- Public Information and Publicity Committee: 1998 - 2006.
- Technical Issues Committee (TIC): Jan 2000 - present.
- TIC Subcommittee on Taxonomic Certification: June 2001 - 28 May 2003. [superseded by:]
- Taxonomic Certification Committee: 28 May 2003 - present.
- Society Website Editorial Committee: 2003 - present.
- Conservation and Stewarship Award Committee - 2005-2006.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

- Research Dive Board (Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Academic Research):

1992 - present.

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS):

- I am assisting ITIS as a Steward for the 'Oligochaeta': 2002 - present;
      in late 2010 I was awarded a grant to correct and update the nomenclature for freshwater oligochaetes occurring in North America.

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Professional Societies

International Symposia on Aquatic Oligochaeta (ISAO) group (1979-present)
- - Elected First General Secretary (2007-present)

- Biological Society of Washington
- Florida Association of Benthologists (FAB)
- Freshwater Biological Association (FBA)
- Illinois State Academy of Science (ISAS)
- Society for Freshwater Science (SFS) (formerly North American Benthological Society (NABS)
     the Society's name was formally changed (by >80% majority vote) during the business meeting of the
     59th annual society meeting convened in Providence, Rhode Island, on Wednesday 25 May 2011.
- Societas Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL)
- Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
- Tennessee Academy of Science
- Society For Conservation Biology - Aldo Leopold Chapter

Honorary Societies
- Phi Sigma Society
- Sigma Xi Scientific Society

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