Past Positions
- President of the Canadian Association of Geographers (1953–54)
- President of the American Association of Geographers (1969–70)
- Vice-President of the International Geographical Union
- founding Secretary General of the International Permafrost Association (1983–93)
- Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Arctic Institute of North America
- Honorary Member of the Chinese Society of Glaciology
- Honorary Member of the Chinese Society of Geocryology
- Honorary Member of the Geographical Society of the U.S.S.R.
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