Person

Myers, Brian John (1947 - )

Born
1947
Toronto, Canada
Occupation
Forest scientist

Summary

Brian John Myers is a forest scientist and ecophysiologist who has specialised in the physiology of moisture stress in trees and conducted research and development in the area of effluent re-use as plantation irrigation. While employed in the CSIRO Division of Forest and Forest Products he was instrumental in establishing the Wagga Wagga Effluent Plantation Project, 1991. In 1999 the project culminated in the publication of a national manual for effluent re-use: Sustainable Effluent-Irrigated Plantations: An Australian Guideline.

Myers retired from the CSIRO in 2003, after working there for almost 30 years.

Details

Chronology

1970
Education - BSc Forestry (Hons), University of Toronto
1971 - 1975
Career position - Researcher, Commonwealth Forestry and Timber Bureau (Forest Research Institute)
1975 - 2003
Career position - Various positions, CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products and its predecessors
1999
Career event - Publication of Sustainable Effluent-Irrigated Plantations: An Australian Guideline

Published resources

Resources

Resource Sections

Rebecca Rigby

EOAS ID: biogs/P005025b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 February (Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#kooyang
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005025b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260