Wildlife Ecologist 1969-76, Zambian National Parks and UN/FAO Somalia
Masters in rural and regional planning University of Aberdeen 1976-78
Lecturer University of East Anglia, UK, 1978-1990. Land resource assessment and management. Land degradation policies.
Seconded to International Livestock Centre for Africa 1980-83. Rangeland degradation research.
Lecturer/S.L University of Canberra 1990-95. Land resource assessment and management. Mental models of landscape processes.
Principal Research Scientist CSIRO 1995-2011. Multi-layered land use in rangelands. Resilience theory and practice. Adaptive environmental governance. Sea level rise and coastal adaptation.
Honorary Fellow, CSIRO, 2011- 2016. Climate change and adaptive pathways to transformation in the Murray Darling Basin. Building resilience into development projects and programs, UN Global Environment Facility. Fellowship canceled for leaking internal CSIRO information on budget cuts to climate science to media and politicians, and for telling the public on ABC Lateline.
Honorary Associate Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society and Institute of Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, ANU, 2016 - present. Participative research on climate activism including a sample of jail time.
Holiday in Alexander Maconochie Centre