Roles and Duties
- 1960, Delegate to the International Geological Congress
- 1965, 1969, 1973, 1977 and 1982, Canadian delegate to the International Quaternary Association (INQUA) Congresses
- 1965, Co-organised the INQUA Field Excursion in the Great Lakes-Ohio River Valley *1972, Co-organised the INQUA Field Excursion with the Montreal lGC
- President of the INQUA Commission on genesis and lithology of Quaternary deposits
- President of the INQUA Working Group on tills
- 1974-1984, Leader of the Canadian Working Group of the UNESCO-IUGS International Geological Correlation Project on Quaternary Glaciations of the Northern Hemisphere
- 1974-1980, Councillor for the American Quaternary Association
- 1975, helped organize the Royal Society of Canada's Conference on Glacial Till
- 1976-1978, Associate Editor for Geoscience Canada
- 1980-1982, President of the American Quaternary Association
- 1981-1987, Associate Editor for Quaternary Science Reviews
- 1987, made Honorary Member of INQUA
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