Environmental management; science policy; technological
innovation

1951~1966 Research Scientist, Division of Land
Research, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation)
1966~1967 Associate Chief of the Land Research Division,
CSIRO
1967~1992 Professor of Biology and Foundation Head of the
Department of Environmental Biology, Australian National
University
1976~1991 SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the
Environment) (President 1982-85, member of the executive
committee until 1991)
1979~1983 World Heritage Committee (Chairman, 1981-
83)
1984~1989 Director, Research School of Biological Sciences,
Australian National University
1978~1981 Australian Ambassador to UNESCO, Paris
1989~1992 Australia's first Chief Scientist and Adviser to
the Prime Minister on Science and Technology
1995~1997 Chairman Commonwealth State Working
Group on Access to Australia's Genetic Resources

1977 Queen's silver jubilee medal
1991 Medal of the Australian and New Zealand
Association for the Advancement of Science
1993 Gold medal of the Ecological Society of
Australia
2001 Clunies Ross award for lifetime contribution to
science and technology