Dr. Tom Lanini was made a Fellow of the Western Society of Weed Science (WSWS) in March 2013 at the annual meeting in San Diego. Tom is a Cooperative Extension Weed Ecologist in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis. He spent the first three years of his career at Penn State University and the subsequent 27 years UC Davis. Tom has provided significant service to the WSWS by serving on numerous committees. He has been very active in WSWS for more than 24 years. He has influenced weed management strategies in forest plantations, aquatics, roadsides, rangeland, wildlands, agronomic crops, orchards, and vegetable crops. He is considered an expert on dodder management and over the years has provided more than 1,000 extension presentations.