1968-86: Assistant, Associate, Full Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Guelph.1986--2000 : Senior and Principal Research Officer, Institute for Marine Biosciences, National Research Council, Halifax.1998-2000: Acting Director-General, IMB, NRC, Halifax.2000-2001: Founding President and Chair of the Board, Genome Atlantic.2001--: Researcher Emeritus, National Research Council.1990-2005 : Editor, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry.1990-95: Member, International Standards Organization Committee on Reference Standards.1993-96 : Member, UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Group of Experts on Standards and Reference Materials.1994-96: Board Member-at-Large for Education, American Society for Mass Spectrometry.1995-97: Board Member, Canadian Association of Environmental Analytical Laboratories.2001: Maxxam Award for Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Institute for Chemistry.2003: Queen Elizabeth II Gold Jubilee Medal.Papers in Refereed Journals: >160; Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings: 5; Non-Refereed but Citeable Publications (including Conference Proceedings): ~200; Book Chapters: 4; NRC Technical Reports: 10; Certification Documents for Standards and Reference Materials issued by Canadian Reference Materials Program (CRMP): 4. Books published: 1 (Trace Quantitative Analysis by Mass Spectrometry; Robert K. Boyd, Cecilia Basic, Robert A. Bethem, (John Wiley and Sons, 2008).2001 -2003 : Member, NSERC Strategic Grants Committee (Biological Sciences A)2003: NSERC Committee on Accelerator Grants for Exceptional New Opportunities.2003-2006: Chair, Science Advisory Board for Genome Prairie project on Enabling Technologies for Proteomics (ETP), led by Dr. W. Davidson (MDS-Sciex).2004-2005: Member, NSERC Committee for Scientific/Technical Review of proposals submitted to the Global Partnerships Program (GPX) administered in Canada by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in collaboration with the International Science and Technology Centre in Russia. (The GPX program awarded research grants funded by Canada, the USA, the EU and Japan, to former weapons scientists in the former USSR).2004-2006: Chair, NSERC Site Visit Committee, Canadian Microelectronics Consortium(Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario); review of proposal for renewal of 5-year operating grant (~$50M) and (2006) mid-point review of progress.