Person
McComb, Arthur James (1936 - 2017)
FAA
- Born
- 9 December 1936
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 8 October 2017
Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Botanist, University Administrator and Environmental scientist
Summary
Arthur McComb was appointed Professor of Environmental Science at Murdoch University in 1989. Before that he had been with the Department of Botany at the University of Western Australia since 1963. He is interested in the control of plant growth in aquatic systems.
Details
"Arthur McComb's work centres upon the control of plant growth by the environment. Beginning as a plant physiologist with interests in gibberellins, he now studies the detailed functioning of aquatic systems using field, laboratory and modelling techniques to examine the inter-relationships of benthic, epiphytic and planktonic plant components under conditions of increasing eutrophication. Much of the work concerns solving applied problems for government agencies, including the demise of seagrass meadows and algal nuisances in marine embayments or estuaries. As well as an extensive range of research papers and chapters for books, McComb has edited/co-authored major treatises on seagrass biology and Australian wetlands." [from https://www.science.org.au/profile/arthur-mccomb 6/6/2022]
Chronology
- 1956
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
- 1959
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne
- 1959
- Award - 1851 Exhibition Overseas Scholarship
- 1962
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Cambridge
- 1963 - 1967
- Career position - Lecturer, Department of Botany, University of Western Australia
- 1968 - 1976
- Career position - Senior Lecturer, Department of Botany, University of Western Australia
- 1969
- Career position - Visiting Fellow, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
- 1971 - 1976
- Career position - Editor, Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia
- 1977 - 1978
- Career position - President, Royal Society of Western Australia
- 1977 - 1989
- Career position - Associate Professor, Department of Botany, University of Western Australia
- 1981 - 1986
- Career position - Associate Professor, Department of Botany, University of Western Australia
- 1982 - 1997
- Career position - Joint Director of the Centre for Water Research, University of Western Australia
- 1983
- Career position - Research Fellow, Botany Department, University of Melbourne
- 1984 - 1986
- Career position - Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, World Wildlife Fund Australia
- 1985 - 1987
- Career position - Deputy Chair, Western Australian National Parks and Nature Conservation Authority
- 1986 - 1988
- Career position - President, Ecological Society of Australia
- 1986 - 1991
- Career position - Chairman, Herdsman Lake Management Advisory Committee
- 1988 - 1989
- Career position - Chair, Western Australian Lands and Forests Commission
- 1989 - 1994
- Career position - Director, Institute for Environmental Science, Murdoch University
- 1989 - 1996
- Career position - Professor of Environmental Science, Murdoch University
- 1989 - 2017
- Award - Fellow, Institute of Biology
- 1991
- Award - Hilary Jolly Medal, Australian Society for Limnology
- 1991 - 1992
- Career position - Member, Life Sciences Panel, Cooperative Research Centres Committee
- 1991 - 1995
- Career position - Chair, Western Australian National Parks and Nature Conservation Authority
- 1992
- Career position - Member, Technical Advisory Group on the generation of algal blooms in the Murray/Darling basin
- 1995 - 2017
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 1997
- Award - Medal of the Royal Society of Western Australia
- 1997 - 2010
- Career position - Senior Scholar in Residence, Murdoch University
- 2001
- Award - Centenary Medal - for service to Australian society in environmental science
- 2002
- Award - Silver Jubilee Award, Australian Marine Sciences Association
- 2007
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), Murdoch University
- 2011 - 2017
- Career position - Emeritus Professor, Murdoch University
Related entries
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Anon, 'AMSA Silver Jubilee Award: Professor Arthur McComb', Australian marine science bulletin, 159 (2002), 12-3. Details
- Anon, 'Obituary: Professor Arthur McComb BSc (Melb.), MSc (Melb.), PhD (Cambridge), F.Inst. Biol., FAA', Australian Marine Science Bulletin, 201 (2017), 13. Details
- Anon, 'Professor Arthur McComb FAA FAIBiol 1936 to 2017', Australian Academy of Science newsletter, 110/112 (2017), 23. Details
- Finlayson, C. M.; Atkins, R.; Congdon, R.; and Gordon, D. M., 'Obituary: Professor Arthur McComb', Marine and Freshwater Research, 68 (2017), i-ii. Details
- McComb, Arthur, 'Silver Jubilee presentation: from fenlands to seagrass meadows', Australian marine science bulletin, 159 (2002), 14-7. Details
- McComb, Jen, 'Arthur James McComb 1936 - 2017', Historical Records of Australian Science, 29 (2) (2018), 184-90. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR18011. Details
- Walker, D. I. and McComb, J. A., 'Vale Professor Arthur McComb BSc, MSc (Melb), PhD (Cantab), DSc (Murdoch), F.Inst.Biol., FAA 9th December 1936 - 8th October 2017', Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 100 (2) (2017), 49-50. Details
- Walker, Diana, 'Vale Professor Arthur McComb BSc, MSc (Melb), PhD (Cantab), DSc (Murdoch), F. Inst. Biol., FAA', Pacific Conservation Biology, 23 (2017), v-vi. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q68172248. Details
- 'McComb, A J (1936-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-581526. Details
See also
- 'McComb, Arthur James (1936 - 2017)', Jubilee Award recipients, Australian Marine Sciences Association, 2022, https://www.amsa.asn.au/sites/default/files/arthur_mccomb_2002.pdf. https://www.amsa.asn.au/jubilee-award-recipients. Details
Rosanne Walker and Helen Cohn
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 16 June 2022