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Translations
English translator (German to English) for scientific publications - 5 articles published in International Journals.
 
English teacher (Private): Conversation and Grammar for foreign students at basic to Intermediate Grade - Zürich, Switzerland.
 
Medicine
Medical candidate for doctoral examinations at the University Hospital in Zürich, Switzerland (October, 1992).
 
Dental candidate for doctoral examinations at the University Hospital in Zürich, Switzerland (September, 1993).
 
Education
Education candidate for long term study on the effect a deprived background has on education performance - University of Swansea (1970-1985).
 
Case Study in Aim Higher - A three year Department for Education and Skills campaign to try and get more young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter Higher Education unleashing their potential (2002).
 
Professional Mentor for Young Scientists (Sigma Xi Mentoring Programs, Committee on Qualifications and Membership - Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society) - 1999-Present.
 
Member of the University of Exeter Alumni Network for Supporting current students, allowing alumni to assist current students with career guidance and development (2002).
 
Member of the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Careers Network for educating current students with career guidance and development in Geological Sciences (2002).
 
Himalaya
Round Table discussion - First South Asian Geological Congress, Pakistan (1991)
 
Supplied Himalayan material for: J.-P. Burg (1994). Collision tectonics of Asia. In: Collisional systems of Tibet and widespread thickening of the continental crust (Geodynamics Session), Tempus Summer School for Graduate students of Earth Sciences on Mountain Building Processes (Prague, Czech Republic) 19 June - 4 July, 1994.
 
Compilation of Himalayan database of researchers (1994 - 1997)
 
Conducted, compiled and evaluated a "Survey of Himalayan Resources" to over 600 Geologists (January-April, 1996).
 
Rock sample specimen (First Himalayan Eclogite) was presented to the Okuizumo Tane Museum of Natural History and Nita-cho Government office, Japan.
 
Himalayan Publication donation to the Centre d'Etudes Himalayennes, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), France
 
Supplied Photograph of North Face of Cho Oyu for a Himalayan publication: Searle, M.P., Simpson, R.L., Law, R.D., Parrish, R.R. and Waters, D.J., 2003. The structural geometry, metamorphic and magmatic evolution of the Everest massif, High Himalaya of Nepal-South Tibet. Journal of the Geological Society, London, Vol. 160, p. 345-366.

     

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