| 1975-77 | Miller Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1977-80 | Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Washington |
| 1980-84 | Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Washington |
| 1984- | Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Washington |
| 1989-98 | Associate Chair, University of Washington (alternate years, except 1991- 93) |
| 1991-92 | Acting Chair, University of Washington |
| 2008- | Chair, Department of Biology, University of Washington |
| 1961-64 | Full Scholarship, Deep Springs Jr. College |
| 1968-69 | NSF Research Traineeship, University of Texas |
| 1972-75 | Richmond Fellow, Harvard University |
| 1975-77 | Miller Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1987 | Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 1991 | Distinguished Herpetologist, Herpetologists' League |
| 1993 | President, American Society of Naturalists |
| 1994 | Plenary Lecturer, 2nd World Congress of Herpetology |
| 1994 | Hathaway Lecture, Tulane University |
| 1995 | Diebold Symposium Lecturer, Kalamazoo College |
| 1998 | Hansen Lecturer, University of California Berkeley |
| 1998-99 | Guggenheim Fellow |
| 2000 | Saul Lecturer, Middlebury College |
| 2001 | Eminent Biologist (Pittsburgh Ecoforum) |
| 2002 | Eminent Ecologist (Kellogg Biological Station) |
| 2002 | Plenary Lecture, American Physiological Society, San Diego |
| 2002 | Plenary Lecture, Biological Society of Chile, Pucón, Chile |
| 2003 | Darwin Lecture, University of Calgary |
| 2004 | O'Leary Distinguished Scientist, Gonzaga University |
| 2004 | Eminent Evolutionary Biologist, Georgia Southern University |
| 2004 | Roger Carpenter Lecture in Comparative Biology, San Diego State University |
| 2004 | President's Award (best paper in The American Naturalist, 2003), American Society of Naturalists |
| 2006 | Distinguished Lecture in Evolution, Ecology, & Organismal Biology, University of North Carolina; Plenary Lecture, Evo-WIBO; Athenaeum Lecture, Claremont Colleges. |
| 2007 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 2008 | Centennial Seminar Series, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (University of California, Berkeley); Keynote Lecture, Phi Sigma Biological Honors Society, University of Puget Sound. |
| 1986-98 | Evolutionary Ecology, Editorial Board |
| 1988-90 | Evolution, Editorial Board |
| 1989-96 | Physiological Zoology, Editorial Board |
| 1992-96, 98-04 | George Bartholomew Award Committee, SICB |
| 1993 | President, American Society of Naturalists |
| 1993, 97 | Panel member, Population Biology, NSF |
| 1995-98 | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Editorial Board |
| 1995-98, 03- | American Naturalist, Editorial Board |
| 1998 | Panel member, Dissertation Improvement Grants, NSF |
| 1998- | Evolutionary Ecology Research, Editorial Board |
| 1999- | Functional Ecology, Editorial Board |
| 1999 | Nominations Committee Chair, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology |
| 1999- | American Zoologist, Editorial Board |
| 2000 | Panel member, Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology, NSF |
| 2002 | Nominations Committee, Sewall Wright Award, American Society of Naturalists |
| 2002- | Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, Editorial Board |
| 2002- | Journal of Thermal Biology, Editorial Board |
| 2003- | American Naturalist, Editorial Board |
| 2003-4 | Advisory Committee, Columbia University |
| 2004-6 | Panel, Undergraduates in Biological & Mathematical Science, NSF |
| 2007 | Virtual Panel, DOE Program for Ecosystem Research; Grants Panel, American Alpine Club: NESCent Senior Advisory Board |
| 2007- | Grants panel, American Alpine Club, NESCent Senior Advisory Board; VAL Advisory Board |
| 1990-93 | Lack's Hypothesis: An Experimental Test in Lizards, NSF (collaborative grant with B. Sinervo) |
| 1991-92 | Workshop: The role of evolution, population and community responses in analyses of global environmental change. NSF, Ecology (P. Kareiva, J. Kingsolver, R. Huey, co-PI) |
| 1993-96 | Experimental Evolution of Ectotherm Thermal Sensitivity (NSF) |
| 1993 | Physiological Consequences of Mutation, NSF |
| 1993 | A Metabolism System for Teaching Physiology, NSF and University of Washington |
| 1993 | An Experiment in Nature: Drosophila subobscura in the New World. University of Washington (Royalty Research Fund) |
| 1993-96 | Experimental Evolution of Ectotherm Thermal Sensitivity. NSF |
| 1996-00 | Experimental Tests of Developmental and Cross-Generational Effects of Temperature. NSF |
| 1996-00 | An Experiment in Evolution: Rapid Life History Evolution in Drosophila subobscura. NSF, (collaborative grant with G. Gilchrist). |
| 1999-00 | An Experiment in Evolution: Drosophila subobscura in the New World. US-Spain Cooperative Grant (collaborative grant with L. Serra, U. Barcelona). |
| 2000-03 | Collaborative Research: An Experiment in Evolution: Rapid Evolution in Drosophila subobscura. NSF (collaborative grant with G. Gilchrist). |
| 2000-03 | International Collaborative Research. NSF (collaborative grant with B. Moreteau, J. David, and P. Gibert). |
| 2002-04 | Into thin air: the paradox of flying insects at altitude. Royalty Research Fund, University of Washington. |
| 2003 | Frontiers of Integrative Biology: A Symposium Honoring George A. Bartholomew. National Science Foundation. |
| 2004-06 | Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: The Paradox of Flying Insects at High Altitude. National Science Foundation. (M. Frazier) |
| 2004-08 | Collaborative Research: Experimental Tests of the Adaptive Significance of Ectotherm Thermoregulation. National Science Foundation, (collaborative grant with P. Phillips) |
| 2004 | Partners in Science Program, M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust. |
| 1990-91 | Cold Spring Harbor Centenary Symposium (Evolution: From Molecules to Culture); Cornell University; University of Rochester; Indiana State University; University of Nebraska; Oregon State University (Graduate Student Invitee); University of Vermont (Graduate Student Invitee, Paul A. Moody Lecturer). |
| 1991-92 | Distinguished Herpetologist Lecture, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris); Special Lecture Series, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Madrid); Gerontological Society of America (Symposium on Genetic Plasticity of Aging); University of Utah (Graduate Student Invitee); Florida State University (Graduate Student Invitee); AAAS Symposium (Evolution of Thermal Sensitivity); American Society of Naturalists (Vice-Presidential Symposium on "Evolution in Stressful Environments"). |
| 1992-93 | Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris); Universidad de Barcelona; University of Oregon; University of Michigan (Graduate Student Invitee); Presidental Address, American Society of Naturalists |
| 1993-94 | Plenary Lecture, Second World Congress of Herpetology; Hathaway Lecture, Tulane University; Washington University St. Louis (Graduate Student Invitee) |
| 1994-95 | University of California, Irvine (Graduate Student Invitee, and Keynote Speaker, student-faculty retreat); University of Texas, Arlington (Graduate Student Invitee); Symposium on "Phylogenies and Comparative Physiology," American Physiological Society; Simon Fraser University (Graduate Student Invitee); Diebold Symposium Keynote Address, Kalamazoo College; International Congress of Physiology, Scotland (Symposium on Phenotypic and Evolutionary Adaptation to Temperature) |
| 1995-96 | University of Puget Sound; no other invitations accepted because of family illness |
| 1996-97 | Miami University Ohio (Graduate Student Invitee); no other invitations accepted because of family illness |
| 1997-98 | Hopkins Marine Station; Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (Symposium on Evolutionary Physiology); Oregon State University (Graduate Student Invitee); University of British Columbia; University of California (Hansen Lecturer, Graduate Student Invitee). |
| 1998-99 | University of Colorado, Boulder (Graduate Student Invitee); University of California, Santa Cruz; University of California, Berkeley (Museum of Vertebrate Zoology); Physiology Ecology Meeting (Bishop, Featured Speaker); European Congress of Evolutionary Biology (invited speaker) |
| 1999-00 | Universidad Catolica (Santiago, Chile); Climb '99 (Birmingham, UK; World Climbing Championship), Middlebury College (Saul Lecturer), University of Vermont |
| 2000-01 | Society of Experimental Biology Symposium (Flagstaff, invited speaker); SICB Symposium (Plant:Animals), invited speaker; International Hypoxia Congress (Jasper, plenary lecture); Eminent Biologist Lecture (Pittsburgh Ecoforum); University of Oregon; University of South Carolina (Graduate Student Invitee); International Mountain Rescue Association (invited speaker). |
| 2001-02 | University of Washington (Department of Botany); Kellogg Biological Station (Distinguished Ecology Series); University of Washington (Science Forum); American Physiological Society (Plenary Lecturer |
| 2002-03 | Plenary Lecture, Biological Society of Chile, Pucón, Chile; Darwin Lecture, University of Calgary; SICB Symposium on Selection in Nature (Toronto, invited speaker); University of Texas, Austin |
| 2003-04 | Eminent Evolutionary Biologist, Georgia Southern University; O'Leary Distinguished Scientist, Gonzaga University; Roger Carpenter Lecture in Comparative Biology, San Diego State University; Gordon Conference (The Metabolic Basis of Ecology); Ecological Society of American Symposium (Invasive species); Symposium honoring Eric Pianka (Herpetologists League) |
| 2004-05 | University of Arizona (Graduate Student Invitee); University of Iowa; University of California, Riverside |
| 2005-06 | University of Colorado; Colorado State University; University of Michigan; University of North Carolina (Distinguished Lecture in Evolution, Ecology, & Organismal Biology); College of William & Mary; Plenary Lecture, EVOWIBO |
| 2006-07 | Anthenaeum Lecture, Claremont College; American Physiological Society Symposium on Complexity in Physiological Systems; Panel on Future of Himalayan Mountaineering (Seattle Mountaineers), European Science Foundation Symposium on Thermal Adaptation in Ectotherms (Barcelona); University of Nevada, Las Vegas; University of British Columbia. |
| 2007-08 | Princeton University; Hopkins Marine Station (Stanford University); Centennial Seminar Series, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (University of California, Berkeley); Keynote Lecture, Phi Sigma Biological Honors Society, University of Puget Sound; European PhD Course on Responses to Climate Warning, Université de Rennes, France: Balzan Conference, Princeton University; Gordon Conference (Metabolic Theory of Ecology). |