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, Lodz, Poland, 1-5 August, 2003.
  • 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, 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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