Professional Activities - Highlights

• 2017-2022: Chair, Local Organizing Committee, Halifax 2022 GAC-MAC Meeting.
• 2022, May 19-23: Co-leader, post-conference field trip B1: Geological comparisons and correlations among crustal blocks in eastern North America, Northwest Africa, and Western Europe.
• 2020-2024: Co-leader, IGCP Project 683 "Pre-Atlantic geological connections among Northwest Africa, Iberia and eastern North America" with F. Haissen (Morocco), P. Montero (Spain), and Y. Kuiper (USA).
• 2013-19: President-Elect, President, and Past-President, Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences.
• 1986-present: Editor, Atlantic Geology (Journal of the Atlantic Geoscience Society)
• Field trip leader, Canadian Paleontological conference Field Trip - Cape Breton Highlands, NS, August 24-25, 2016
• Field trip co-leader, Canadian Tectonics Group Workshop, Cape Breton Island, Sydney, NS, October 2-4, 2015.
• Field trip co-leader, "The on-going Saint John geology enigma: Avalonia versus Ganderia in southern New Brunswick". GAC-MAC Fredericton 2014 field trip, May 24-25, 2014
• Field trip co-leader, "The new Meguma: stratigraphy, metamorphism, paleontology, and provenance". GAC St. John’s 2012 field trip (May 28-June 1, 2012)
• Field trip co-leader, "Ganderia in New Brunswick" field trip (May 28-June 1, 2011)
• Field trip co-leader, "Eurogranites" field trip in Nova Scotia (Aug. 29-Sept.4, 2010
• Presidential Advisor, Geological Association of Canada (2008-2018)
• Book Editor, Geological Association of Canada (2005-2020)
• Associate Editor, Geological Society of American Bulletin (2007-2020)
• Member, Geological Survey of Canada Advisory Committee (2006-2008)
• President, Geological Association of Canada (2004-2005)
• Member, Local Organizing Committee, Geological Association of Canada/Mineralogical Association of Canada 2005 meeting in Halifax, NS., and Chair of the Field Trip Committee)
• Co-chair of the program committee for the joint Northeastern Section of the Geological Society of America and Atlantic Geoscience Society meeting, Halifax, NS, March 2003.
• Canadian Leader, IGCP Project 426, Granite Systems and Proterozoic Lithospheric Processes.
• Member, Canadian delegation to the 30th International Geological Congress, Beijing, China (1996).
• Member, Canadian National Committee, International Union of Geological Sciences (1994-2000).
• Member, NSERC Grant Selection Committee 08, Solid Earth Sciences (1994-1997).
• President of AGID Canada (Canadian chapter of the Association of Geoscientists for International Development) (1995-present).
• Treasurer & Councillor, Association of Geoscientists for International Development (1993-1996)