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Stewart, George Alan (Alan) (1922 - )

Agricultural scientist

Born: 17 June 1922

George Alan (Alan) Stewart was Senior Survey Officer, CSIRO Division of Land Research and Regional Survey 1951-60. He and a colleague, C.S. Christian (qv), proposed a land system survey involving the then revolutionary concept of using air photographs as an analogue model of the land resource to identify broad scale recurring patterns of land units, and then determining their characteristics by stereoscopic examination and field traverse sampling. Stewart was educated at the University of Melbourne (MAgrSc).

Career Highlights

Chronology
1944 - 1951 Soil surveyor at the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Soils
1951 - 1960 Senior Survey Officer with the Division of Land Research and Regional Survey
1960 - 1973 Chief of the CSIRO Division of Land Research in Canberra
1973 - 1976 Officer-in-Charge of the Agroindustrial Research Unit
1976 - Co-ordinator of the Agroindustrial Systems Program of the Division of Chemical Technology

Online Sources

See Also

Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P003971. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: Rosanne Walker
Created: 25 May 2001
Modified: 22 August 2006

Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
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