Selected Awards:
LCAAA State Newsletter Award - 1989
Floyd Edminston Extension Service Award - 1989
Cameron Parish Citizen of the Year -1990
LCAAA Educational Slide Program Award - 1990
Lion of the Year - Cameron Parish - 1991
LCAAA Distinguished Service Award - 1992
USDA Team Award - 1993
Extension Program Excellence Award - 1994
EPA Environmental Excellence Award - 1994
Epsilon Sigma Phi Mid-career Award - 1995
National Wetlands Educator Award finalist Coastal Stewardship Award - 1998, 1995 & 1996
Avoyelles Sweet Potato Assoc Distinguished Service Award - 2004
Author of numerous journal articles, technical reports, newsletters and Extension Service publications
-Examples of two that are now in their third printing:
Wetlands Functions and Values in Louisiana. LSU Agricultural Center, LCES publications (revised 1995)
Private Lands Technical Assistance Handbook for Louisiana. LSU AgCenter, LCES publication (rev. 1996)
2001 -- Present Vice Chancellor and Director (Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service)
1999 - 2001 Assistant Director (Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service)
1998 - 1999 Wetlands Conservation Administrator (Burlington Resources)
1996 - 1998 Associate Specialist (Wetland & Coastal Resources), State Office, Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service (LCES)
1992 -1996 Area Agent (Wetland & Coastal Resources), State Office, LCES
1987 - 1991 Parish Chairman, Cameron Parish Office, LCES
1982 - 1986 Associate Area Agent (Fisheries & Wildlife), Cameron & Calcasieu Parishes, LCES
1978 - 1982 Assistant Area Agent (Fisheries & Wildlife), Cameron & Calcasieu Parishes, LCES
Wetland & Coastal Resources, Wildlife & Fisheries
High School Sacred Heart Catholic High School - Ville Platte, Louisiana
B.S. University of Southwestern Louisiana, Zoology, 1976
M.S. Louisiana State University, Wildlife Management, 1984
Ph.D Louisiana State University, Vocational Education (minor - Agricultural Economics), 1995
The LSU AgCenter and the LSU College of Agriculture