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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1960-66 Geologist, British Antarctic Survey

1966-67 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Polar Studies, The Ohio State University

1967-69 Research Associate, Institute of Polar Studies, The Ohio State University

1967-69 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Geology, The Ohio State University

1969-72 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, The Ohio State University

1972-79 Associate Professor, Department of Geology and Mineralogy, The Ohio State University 1973-89 Director, Byrd Polar Research Center (formerly the Institute of Polar Studies), The Ohio State University

1979-present Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, The Ohio State University

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Geological Society of America

Geological Society of London

American Geophysical Union

Sigma Xi

Ohio Academy of Sciences

SERVICE

Federal Government

1971-74 Member, Ross Ice Shelf Steering Group, Committee on Polar Research, National Research Council

1972-75 Member, Panel on Geology and Geophysics, Committee on Polar Research, National Research Council

1980-90 Associate Editor, Board of Editors, Antarctic Research Series of the American Geophysical Union

1981-82 Member, Antarctic Planning Advisory Committee for the Ocean Margin Drilling Prog

1982-98 U.S. Representative to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Working Group on Geology

1982-84 Member, National Research Council Ad Hoc Committee on Antarctic Geosciences

1983-87 Member, Southern Ocean panel of the Ocean Drilling Program.

1984-89 Member, Polar Research Board, National Research Council.

1987 Panel member, National Research Council Associateship Program.

1988-89 Member, Advisory Board for Antarctic Resources, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress.

1990-94 Chair, Board of Editors, Antarctic Research Series of the American Geophysical Union.

1990-94 Chair, Lithosphere Working Group, Office of Polar Programs, NSF.

1992-93 Member, Committee on Antarctic Policy and Science, National Research Council

Geological Sciences

1982 Co-convener, with I.W.D. Dalziel, of the Penrose Conference The Antarctic Plate, a global perspective. Shenandoah, Virginia, April 11-16.

1985 Co-convener, with J.W. Collinson, of the Sixth Gondwana Symposium, Columbus, Ohio, August 19-23.

1986 Co-convener, with R. Feldmann, of the symposium Polar Research: Contributions to Earth Sciences. Geological Society of America, North Central Section Annual Meeting, Kent, Ohio, April 24-25.

1986 Convener, workshops on Crustal Structure and Cenozoic Geology at SCAR XIX, San Diego, California, June 17-18.

1987 Member, Steering Committee, Fifth International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Cambridge, England, August 23-28.

1990 Member, Organizing Committee, International Symposium on the Role of Polar Regions in Global Change, Fairbanks, Alaska, June, 1990.

1991 Member, Steering Committee, Sixth International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Japan, September, 1991.

1992 Co-convenor, with J.W. Collinson, of the thematic session Tectonic Settings and Paleoenvironments of the Paleo-Pacific Margin - Antarctica and related Gondwana Sequences, Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, Oct. 26-29.

Other

1988-90 Member, Executive Committee, Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S.

1988 Invited participant, Ditchley Foundation Conference on Antarctica, Ditchley Hall, England

1989-90 Invited participant, Keystone Center Policy Dialogue on the Implementation of the Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities (CRAMRA), Keystone, CO.

1993 Invited participant, Keystone Center Policy Dialogue on the Environmental Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty, Airlie House, VA