Northern Territory, Canberra and Sydney, Australia (1964–1984)

Abstract

Appointed geomorphologist to the CSIRO Division of Land Research and Regional Survey in Canberra in late 1964. Take part in 1965 Land System Survey, led by plant ecologist Dr Robert Story , of the region between Arnhem Land , Darwin and Pine Creek , Northern Territory. Monitor hill slope erosion in tropical Northern Territory as part of my doctoral research at the Australian National University , Canberra, supervised by Joe Jennings . Discover the important role played by mound-building termites on soil development in tropical northern Australia. Move in 1969 to the School of Earth Sciences at Macquarie University in Sydney and teach there for the next sixteen years. Meet plant physiologist and polymath Dr Don Adamson early in 1969 and plan future joint fieldwork in the Blue and White Nile valleys of Sudan.