Archbold, Neil Wilfred (1950 - 2005)

Summary

Neil Archbold was Professor and Personal Chair in Palaeontology at the School of Ecology and Environment at Deakin University. He was also the Coordinator of Earth Sciences at the University. Archbold spent much of his professional life as an educator and researcher in the fields of earth history, stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, palaeobiogeography, evolution of life, extinction events and the history of science. He authored over one hundred scientific works and was an active, long-term member of many top scientific bodies including the Royal Society of Victoria, the Geological Society of Australia and the Paleontological Society of USA.

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Chronology

1973 -

Career position - Member of the Geological Society of Australia

1973 -

Career position - Member, Royal Society of Victoria

1973

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne

1973 - 1980

Career position - Tutor (part-time) in Geology, University of Melbourne

1973 - 1989

Career position - Tutor at the Council of Adult Education in Melbourne

1976

Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne

1977 - 1980

Career position - Teacher at University High School in Melbourne

1978 -

Career position - Member of the Australasian Association of Palaeontologists

1980 -

Career position - Member of the Palaeontological Society of USA

1980 - 1982

Career position - Tutor in Geology, University of Melbourne

1983

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Melbourne

1983 - 1986

Career position - Scientific Services Officer at the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Geomechanics

1984 - 1988

Career position - Lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria

1985 -

Career position - Chairman, D. E. Thomas Memorial Medal Committee

1986 -

Career position - Corresponding Member of the International Union of Geological Sciences (UNESCO) Subcommission on Permian Stratigraphy

1986 - 1988

Career position - Secretary, International Union of Geological Sciences (UNESCO) Subcommission of Gondwana Stratigraphy

1986 - 1989

Career position - Lecturer in Geology, University of Melbourne

1987 - 1993

Career position - Member of the Permian Subcommission working group on the Carboniferous - Permian boundary

1988 - 1989

Career position - Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the Melbourne College of Advanced Education

1989

Career position - Senior Tutor in Earth Sciences at Victoria College

1990 - 1991

Career position - Lecturer in Earth Sciences at Victoria College

1992 -

Career position - Council member of the Royal Society of Victoria

1992 - 1993

Career position - Lecturer in Earth Sciences at Deakin University

1993 - 1995

Career position - Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of the Department of Earth Sciences at Deakin University

1994 -

Career position - Guest Professor at China University of Mining and Technology

1994 - 1996

Career position - Secretary, Australasian Association of Palaeontologists

1995 -

Career position - Professor and Personal Chair of Palaeontology at Deakin University

1997 -

Career position - Member of the Paleontological Research Institute New York, USA

1999 - 2000

Career position - Vice-President of the Royal Society of Victoria

2001 - 2002

Career position - President, Royal Society of Victoria

2002 - 2005

Career position - Chairman, Earth Sciences History Group, Geological Society of Australia

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Published resources

Book Sections

• Archbold, N.W., 'Hills, Edwin Sherborn (1906-1986), Geologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 17: 1981 - 1990 A-K, Diane Langmore, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007), pp. 533-534. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hills-edwin-sherbon-12638. Details
• Archbold, Neil; Vickers-Rich, Pat, 'Squatters, Priests and Professors: a Brief History of Vertebrate Palaeontology in Terra Australis' in Vertebrate Palaeontology of Australasia, Pat Vickers-Rich; J.M. Monaghan and R.F. Baird and T.H. Rich, eds (Melbourne: Pioneer Design Studios and Monash University Publications Committee, 1991), pp. 1-44. Details
• Hegarty, K. A. (coordinator); Birch, W. D.; Douglas, J. G.; Mccann, D.; Archbold, N. W.; Gleadow, A. J. W.; Vandenberg, A. H. M.; and Phillips, G.N., 'Inspired Observations' in Geology of Victoria, William D. Birch, ed. (Sydney: Geological Society of Australia (Victoria Division), 2003), pp. 687-702. Details

Edited Books

• Archbold, N. W.; McCann, D. A. ed., The Inaugural Addresses of the First Presidents of the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science and the Philosophical Society of Victoria (Melbourne: Royal Society of Victoria, 2004), 34 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Archbold, N. W., 'Western Australian Geology: an historical review to the year 1870', Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 63 (4) (1981), 119-128. Details
• Archbold, N. W., 'Nineteenth Century Views on the Australian Marine Permian', Earth Sciences History, 5 (1) (1986), 12-23. Details
• Archbold, N. W., 'J. E. Tenison Woods: his contribution to the Tertiary geology of south eastern Australia', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 122 (1989), 119-21. Details
• Archbold, Neil, 'Marjor T.L. Mitchell and Australian Vertebrate Palaeontology', Bulletin of the Fossil Collectors' Association of Australasia, 30 (1990), 33-37. Details
• Campbell, Hamish J., 'A Personal Tribute to the Memory of Neil Archbold', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 120 (1) (2008), 46-50. Details
• Campi, Monica J., 'New Taxa and Combinations of Neil W. Archbold', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 120 (1) (2008), 27-37. Details
• McCann, Doug, 'Neil Wilfred Archbold', The Victorian naturalist, 123 (2) (2006), 113-115. Details
• Talent, John A., 'Passing of a Polymath: Neil Wilfred Archbold (1950-2005) Professor of Palaeontology, Deakin University', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 120 (1) (2008), 2-13. Details
• Talent, John A.; and Campi, Monica J., 'Bibliography of Neil W. Archbold', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 120 (1) (2008), 14-26. Details

Resources

• 'Archbold, Neil Wilfred (1950-2005)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-626625. Details

See also

• Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/index_a.html. Details