Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research)
Professor Peter Flood
Qualifications
BSc Hons First Class, UNE, MSc, UNE, PhD, University of Queensland, IEM, Harvard
Background
Professor Flood is a UNE alumnus (Wright College 1964-1967), graduating with First Class Honours in Geology. Subsequently he worked for the Commonwealth Bureau of Mineral Resources (1967-1970), including a secondment to the Papuan Department of Lands Survey and Mines (1968), and later as a mineral exploration consultant 1970-1972, during which time he completed an external Master of Science degree through UNE.
Professor Flood accepted a lecturing position at the University of Queensland (1972-1980) where he completed a PhD part-time. He returned to UNE in 1980 and almost immediately took leave to accept a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Miami, Florida.
Professor Flood has served UNE as Head of School, Dean of the Faculty of The Sciences, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, and in his current position of Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research. He has published extensively on topics as diverse as the geological development of the Great Barrier Reef, the origin of mid-Pacific seamounts, geology of eastern Australia, NZ, PNG, Newfoundland, Hong Kong, etc. He has published several hundred articles and book chapters, and numerous 1:25,000; 1:200,000 and 1: 250,000 geological maps of Australia and PNG.
Currently he is the Chair of the Primary Industries Innovation Centre (PIIC) Board of Management, a joint venture with the New South Wales Government Department of Primary Industries and serves on the board of the Australian Poultry Cooperative Research Centre, and the Animal and Genetics Breeding Unit (AGBU).
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research)
Ph: +61 2 6773 5050
Fax: +61 2 6773 3543
Email: pvcr@une.edu.au
Mailing Address:
Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research)
2nd Floor, TC Lamble Building C33
University of New England
Armidale NSW 2351