Born 15 October, 1931, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England.
Married: Pauline Angela Cordingley, 11 September, 1954
Emigrated to Canada, September, 1954; Canadian Citizenship, 1959
| English University: |
| 1950-1954 |
University of Nottingham, B.A. honours
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| 1953 |
1st Class, Geography
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1952, 53,
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Leader, U of Nottingham expeditions to SE Iceland
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| 1976 |
Pamir: Ascent of Pik Kommunismus (7495 m)
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| 1979 |
Peruvian Andes: Ascent of Huascaran (6768 m)
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| Canadian University: |
| 1954-1956 |
McGill, Montreal, PhD Geography, 1956
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| Career Appointments: |
| 1957-1960 |
Hindukush, Afghanistan: Five first ascents and a second ascentAssistant Professor and Director, McGill Subarctic Research Laboratory, Schefferville, Nouveau Quebec
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| 1960-1967 |
Assistant Director and Director, Canadian Federal Geographical Branch, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa
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| 1967-1979 |
Full Professor (Geography) and Director, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, USA
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| 1979-1989 |
Professor of Mountain Geoecology, University of Colorado
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| 1989-1997 |
Professor of Mountain Geoecology, University of California, Davis
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| 1997- |
Professor Emeritus, Environmental Science, UC, Davis
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| 1997- |
Honorary Research Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
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| International Commitments: |
| 1972-1980 1988-1996
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Chairman, International Geographical Union, Commission on Mountain Geoecology
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| 1974-1976 |
Chair, UNESCO International Working Group for Project 6 – Study of the Impacts of Human Activities on Mountain Ecosystems
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| 1978-2000 |
Project Coordinator, UNU (United Nations University) Highland-Lowland Interactive Systems (Mountain Ecology and Sustainable Development),
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| 1980-2000 |
Founding President, International Mountain Society
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| 1981-2000 |
Editor-in-Chief, Mountain Research and Development
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| 1976-1977 |
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow, tenable at University of Bern, Switzerland
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| 1992 |
Senior coordinator/UNU for UNCED (Earth Summit) Rio de Janeiro fornegotiating inclusion of Chapter 21 – Sustainable Mountain Development, in Agenda 21
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| Research and Publications: |
Planned and developed UNU mountain research in Himalaya, Northern Thailand, Yunnan (China), Tajikistan, Ecuador
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Published over 160 research papers and monographs
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Authored, co-authored, or edited, 9 books, most relevant are:
Arctic and Alpine Environments, Ives, J. D. and Barry, R. G. (eds.), 1974, Methuen, London and New York, 999 pp.
The Himalayan Dilemma, Ives, J. D. and Messerli, B., 1989, Routledge and UNU Press, London and New York, 296 pp.
Mountains (Illustrated Library of the Earth), Ives, J. D. (ed.) 1994, Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA, USA, 160 pp. (large format)
Mountains of the World: A Global Priority, Messerli, B. and Ives, J. D. (eds.), 1997: Parthenon, London and New York, 495 pp.
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Produced Mountain Calendars for UNU, 1995-2002
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Developed UNU’s mountain photography exhibit – Mountain Prospects: Images for the International Year of the Mountains – 2001, 2002
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