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Panel which undertook a review of Environmental
Management Systems for the South East Queensland
Regional Forest Agreement; member, International
Earth Charter Drafting team, chaired by Prof Steven
Rockefeller from Middlebury College, USA; member,
IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, and a core
member of its Ethics and Jurisprudence Working
Group and attended the inaugural meeting of the group
at the Hastings Centre, New York; President, The Aus-
tralian National Committee for the Earth Charter.
Prof Henry NIX, Adjunct Professor, University of
Queensland, Visitor, CRC for Coastal Zone, Estuary
and Waterway Management; chair, Committee of
Management, Edith and Joy London Foundation,
ANU; Land Reference Group, State of Environment
Report, Capital Region; Environmental Management
Planning Committee, ANU; director, Water Research
Foundation of Australia; member, Advisory Commit-
tee, Australian Network for Plant Conservation;
Australian UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Commit-
tee; Recovery Team for Burramys parvus; Environment
Committee, Australian Academy of Science; CSIRO
Biodiversity Sector Advisory Committee; Birrigai Out-
door School Advisory Committee, ACT; CSIRO
Intersectoral Advisory Committee on Tropical Agricul-
ture, Birds Australia Council; Research Advisory
Group, Ballast Water Decision Support System, AQIS;
Decision Support System for Ballast Water, Steering
Committee, AQIS.
Prof Cliff OLLIER, member, Science Advisory Com-
mittee, Latrobe University, Bendigo Campus; member,
Editorial Board, Geomorphology.
Dr Jack PEZZEY, Consultant, Australian Greenhouse
Office.
Dr Libby ROBIN, editor, History of Australian Science
Newsletter; board member, Historical Records of Aus-
tralian Science; Commonwealth Working Party,
Australian Dictionary of Biography; Australian Hu-
manities Review; consultant, National Museum of
Australia; Birds Australia/Centenary of Federation
(History and Education Program).
Dr Helen ROSS, adviser, WHO Collaborating Centre
in Environmental Health for the Asia/Pacific, Universi-
ty of Western Sydney; associate editor, Australian
Journal of Environmental Management; member, Inter-
national Advisory Board, Impact Assessment and
Project Appraisal; editorial board, Society and Natural
Resources; International Committee, International Asso-
ciation for Impact Assessment; Board and Steering
Committee, National Thai Studies Centre.
D.I. SMITH, member, Emergency Management Aus-
tralia, National Emergency Management Advisory
Committee; Australian National Coordination Com-
mittee for the International Decade for Natural Disaster
Reduction; editorial board, Applied Geography.
Prof RJ WASSON, member and Officer, Scientific
Committee, International Geosphere and Biosphere
Program, ICSU; member, Capital Region State of the
Environment Water Group; adviser and consultant,
Upper Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Coor-
dinating Committee; member, Australian Academy of
Science Committee for Global Change; Australian
Academy of Science Quaternary Research Committee;
Healthy Rivers Reference Group, Environment Aus-
tralia; International Association of Hydrological
Sciences, Working Group on Landuse, Deforestation,
Erosion, and Sedimentation; Editorial Board of Quater-
nary International; director, Water Research
Foundation of Australia.
Prof Ian WHITE, chair, Oyster Research Advisory
Committee, Acid Sulfate Soils Management Advisory
Committee, Technical Committee; research director,
Water Research Foundation of Australia; president,
Australian Water and Waste Water Association — ACT
Branch; member, Acid Sulfate Soils Management Advi-
sory Committee; Standing Committee on Agriculture
and Resource Management National Working Party on
Acid Sulfate Soils; Scientific Advisory Committee Euro-
bodalla Shire Council; Cudgeon Lake Restoration
Committee; STAR Water Working Group, South Pa-
cific Applied Geoscience Council; consultant,
UNESCO; AUSAID; ASSMAC; Olympic Games Co-
ordinating Committee; Healthy Rivers Commission
NSW; DLWC; Chipping Norton Lakes Authority; WA
Department of Environment Protection.
The Faculties
Faculty of Arts
Archaeology and Anthropology
Prof BELLWOOD, completed his term as a member of
the ARC Humanities Panel.
Dr BULBECK, cooperated with the Makassar Archae-
ology Office, Indonesian government, in analysing the
sediments and excavated finds from sites in South Su-
lawesi in Makassar.
Mr FARRINGTON, adviser, the Australian Museum
on a proposed exhibition of ancient Peruvian artefacts.
Dr GROVES, analysis of bones for Federal Police and
Environment Australia.
Dr HISCOCK, adviser on Archaeological Heritage
Management in the Arthur-Pieman Conservation Area
to the Tasmanian Government, Commission of Plan-
ning and Resource Development.
Prof MERLAN, introductory material written for Con-
servation Commission of the Northern Territory on
research into plants and their applications, and indige-
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Prof SPRIGGS, (with Mr S. Bedford, New Zealand
Historic Places Trust) research and staff training at the
Mangaasi site, Efate, Vanuatu, with Vanuatu National
Museum; ‘Prehistoric fauna of Vanuatu’ (with Mr S
Bedford New Zealand Historic Places Trust, Dr D.
Steadman, Florida Museum of Natural History and Dr
J. Mead, Northern Arizona University.
Dr SUMMERHAYES, member, AMS Specialist Advi-
sory Group, Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and
Engineering; affiliated to Department of Prehistory,
National Museum and Art Gallery of Papua New Guin-
ea; Research Associate, Australian Museum, Sydney,
collaborations with Dr J. Specht and Dr R. Torrance;
‘PIXE-PIGME sourcing of Southeast Solomons obsidi-
an’, with Dr J. Dockall, BP Bishop Museum, Hawaii.
Classics Program
Dr MINCHIN, ANU representative, executive com-
mittee, Australian Society for Classical Studies; Classics
representative, Council of the Australian Archaeological
Institute at Athens; member (as ANU representative),
ACT Accreditation Panel of the Board of Secondary
Studies, for Latin; speaker: Belconnen Rotary, fundrais-
ing event for the Canberra Hospital, Aquaviva.
Dr MOFFATT, editorial work as member, publica-
tions committee, Australian Association for Byzantine
Studies; submittied Australian bibliographical data for
the journal Byzantinische Zeitschrift; ANU representa-
tive, Council of the Australian Archaeological Institute
at Athens (AAIA), secretary and program organiser,
ANU (Canberra) Friends of the AAIA; delivered Uni-
versity of Adelaide's annual Galatis Byzantine Lecture;
speaker, University of the Third Age's Greek Tragedy
group; speaker, Canberra Potters.
French Program
Dr BROWN, presenter, round-table discussion of
Catherine Breillat's film Romance and censorship, Ra-
dio 2XX/Screen Australia/Electric Shadows Cinema,
Canberra; participant, Round-Table discussion with
visiting international "Observatoire de la Francopho-
nie"; Panel member, French Government National
Postgraduatte Scholarship Scheme; Panel Member,
French Government "Baudin" National Undergraduate
Scholarship Scheme; opened Art Exhibition on Lithog-
raphy, Alliance Française.
Dr MAURER, ANU representative, accreditation panel
for French; invited seminar presenter, Secondary
Teaching Studies, Languages Other than English, Uni-
versity of Canberra; member, national scholarships
board at the French Embassy.
Dr MULLER, member, national scholarships board,
French Embassy; participant, workshop on EU enlarge-
ment at ANU attended by European diplomats, a
government minister, and several other academics; re-
wrote and translated a formal letter concerning the
Australian National University’s Europe Centre sent by
the President of the Australian Senate to the President
of the European Parliament; as board member, Austral-
ian European Studies Association organised, advertised,
ran and marked entries for the national essay
competition.
Dr Brown and Dr Muller ran the French part of the
Swiss essay competition.
German Program
Dr HILLMAN, participant, LIFT weekend, run by the
Goethe Institute; lecturer, Goethe Society of Canberra.
Dr JANSEN, member, Accreditation Panel for Ger-
man, Board of Senior Secondary Studies; member,
organising committee for the Modern Language Teach-
ers’ Annual Conference to be held in Canberra in 2001.
Ms SCHMIDT, committee member, Canberra branch,
Australian Goethe Society; involved in student recruit-
ment activities; presenter, local secondary schools;
invited by the German Embassy, to sit on the DAAD's
(German Academic Exchange Service) selection com-
mittee for research scholarships.
Russian Program
Rosh IRELAND, Chair, NAATI Russian Panel; Chair,
Regional Advisory Committee until June, when he re-
signed as Chair but continued as a member.
Dr TRAVERS, Secretary, Australian Society of WW1
Aero Historians.
Dr Kevin WINDLE, member, NAATI Russian Panel
and the Regional Advisory Committee; Secretary-
Treasurer, Australian and New Zealand Slavists’ Associ-
ation (ANZSA); member, editorial board, Australian
Slavonic & East European Studies; assessed submissions
for a special issue of The Journal of Pragmatics and Cog-
nition, edited by Anna Wierzbicka and Nicholas
Enfield; researched and drafted report published by
Prof J. Lo Bianco, Director of Language Australia; en-
gaged in joint project with Dr David Lovell, School of
Politics, Australian Defence Force Academy.
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Program
Dr ANDREWS, course teacher, Australian Linguistic
Institute on LFG Architecture and Descriptive
Problems.
Dr HERCUS worked jointly with David Nathan, In-
formation Officer, AIATSIS on a project funded by
ATSIC to produce an interactive CD on the Paakantyi
Language of the Darling River; fieldwork, far South
West of New South Wales, Dareton, Broken Hill and
Wilcannia; talking dictionary and texts checked with
Paakantyi people; jointly with Prof Barry Blake, La
Trobe University on the Mathi-mathi language; visited
Tibooburra and Birdsville on fieldwork for an ARC
project on analysis of previously recorded materials on

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