Academic Qualifications:

1972: B.App.Sc. (Physics), Western Australian Institute of Technology

1972: Teaching Certificate, Nedlands Secondary Teachers College

1974: Master App.Sci. (Physics), Curtin University

1979 PhD Div. Geol. & Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

Present Appointment: Professor

1974-1980: Graduate Research Assistant and Ph.D candidate, CALTECH,

1980-1983: Research Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU

1983-1990: Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU

1990-1996: Senior Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU

1996- Professor and Head Environmental Geochemistry and Geochronology RSES

Awards:

• Fellow AGU, 2002.
• Editorial Board of Chemical Geology.
• Miller Professorship Berkeley University, 1994.
• Invited speaker e.g. Australian Coral Reef Society, 1998, Earth Processes Conference Edinburgh, 2001.
• ISI Honours for Excellence in Australian Research, 2001.
• Awarded RIEF grant in 1998 (Total $1.2 million) for project entitled 'Laser-ablation ICP-sector for the application to Global Climate Change and Environmental Research.
• 2001 Awarded x 2 ARC grants for research on coral reefs. Runoff into the Great Barrier Reef $90,000 per annum for three years. Fossil coral reef, as climate proxies $80,000 per annum for three years (joint with Dr P Hearty, JCU).