• Member of the 2006-2008 Economic Vitality Task Force for Longmont. Authored, along with Tom McCoy, Sarah Levison and Rich Hansen, the report’s Exhibit 1 which emphasizes that growth should be governed and managed within the margins between current consumption and eventual capacity.
• Serving a two-year appointment to the Boulder County committee that distributes Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) funds with emphasis on directing tax-supported funds towards deserving projects and fair Longmont representation.
• Appointed member of Longmont committee that distributes federal funds (Community Development Block Grants) within Historic Eastside Neighborhood Association (HENA)
• Advisor for CTEK, and a Magellan Center member
• Fellow of OSA (Optical Society of America), an international scientific professional organization, since 2007
• Several years of service on the MeadowView Homeowners Association Board. Currently serving third term as President of that HOA
• Volunteer teacher of optics to middle-school students in Longmont, Erie, Brighton.
• Four years as judge at the Colorado Science and Engineering Fair, evaluating middle- and high-school student projects. Special Awards judge on behalf of the Boulder chapter of the American Meteorological Society and the Rocky Mountain chapter of the Optical Society of America, Grand Awards judge in physics.

And now for the promised information on aluminum foil. You recall that the roll of aluminum foil you get at the grocery store has one side shiny and the other side dull. That’s because in the rolling to final thickness, two sheets of foil pass through the rollers as a sandwich and are then separated. The side of each sheet that is pressed against the shiny roller is itself shiny. The side that presses against the other sheet of foil shows the mutual interaction of the crystalline structure in the two sheets as they are forced into conjunction. That interaction produces a much rougher surface than the hard shiny steel roller does.