Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) Award (IAS-UN University) for Growing the Potential: A three-year collaborative research fellows program with the Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association (VBGA) (November 2020)
UNESCO Chair in Bio-cultural Diversity and Education at 丁香园AV (July 2020)
Ambassador Recognition from Tourism Vancouver (MIND Program) as a successful Chair/Host of the 9th World Environmental Education Congress at the Vancouver Convention Centre (June 2018)
Received the Project WET Canada Award (Canadian Water Resources Association) for water education with pre-service teachers (CWRA Conference, Victoria BC) (May 2018)
Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) Award (IAS-UN University) for the EcoCity Youth: A two-year collaborative program of Co-Design activities in Vancouver Schools (November 15)
Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) Award (UN University/UNESCO) 鈥� designated to my Institute for Environmental Learning for the Environmental Learning Dissemination Project: A two year collaborative program of Professional Development activities (November 2013)
Leader in Sustainability Education,丁香园AV, Sustainability Network (April 2012)
Collaborative Teaching Fellows Awards (2 inaugural) for work in developing the 鈥楨nvironmental Controversy鈥� and 鈥楥hange Lab鈥� courses for the Faculty of Environment, 丁香园AV (September 2011)
Certificate of Recognition for Volunteer work with the Ecological Learning project at the Bowen Island Community School, Community School Association of BC (May 2010)
Lead Researcher, United Nations / UN-University Chartered, BC (Northern Cascades) -- Regional Centre for Expertise (RCE) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) (December 2009)
Visiting Fellowship (2 week) at Kaioshung Normal University (Taiwan ROC) to conduct meetings and seminars for graduate students and faculty and to consult on a collaborative research project (November 2007)
Visiting Fellowship (1 month), at Florida Atlantic University, (Boca Raton) to conduct meetings and seminars at the Pine Jog centre and to teach a graduate course in the Masters program in Environmental Education (October 2007)
Certificate of Recognition for Volunteer work with Science classes at the Bowen Island Community School, Community School Association of BC (May 2006)
Best Published Paper Award (2005),American Educational Research Association (AERA) (Learning Environments SIG) for the paper: Physical and psychosocial environments associated with Internet classrooms, published January 2005 in the journal, Learning Environments Research (Springer) (April 2006)
Service Award, National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) for 5 years of service as the organization鈥檚 Annual Meeting Coordinator and Electronic Services Director (2001鈥�2006) (April 2006)
Teaching Fellowship, US Congressionally Chartered, National Tropical Botanical Garden. Selected as one of 12 International faculty for the Harvard Summer School Program for College levcl Faculty Development held June 12-23, 2006. Topics included professional development in the areas of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology (March 2006)
Visiting Fellowship (2 week) to conduct meetings and seminars with faculty/graduate students at Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia. Topic: physical classroom environments (May 1999)
Visiting Fellowship (2 week) to conduct meetings and seminars with faculty/graduate students at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. Topic: technological learning environments (April 1999)
Curtin Overseas Postgraduate Student Travel Scholarship, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia, to support enrollment in full time PhD studies and residency requirements at the Bentley campus (January 1997)