Professional activities:

Past Chairman Atlantic Fisheries Technological Conference, Past President Connecticut Valley Chapter of American Society for Microbiology, past member Edit. Bd. J. Food Biochem., Ed. Bd. J. Food Safety, and present member Ed. Bd. J. Food Protection. Past member NSF Biomedical Ph.D. Fellowship Review Panel, and past member U.S.D.A NRI review Panel. Present ad hoc reviewer for Cornell University and University of Maryland Sea Grant proposals, USDA SB proposals, BARD proposals, J. Agric. & Food Chem., and J. Food Science, and J. Food Biochem. Ad hoc reviewer for 12 technical journals. Recently (2007) designated "Outstanding Research Professor" of the College of Natural Resources and the Environment.