Marchant, Stephen (1912 - 2003)

Summary

Stephen Marchant was a geologist with the Bureau of Mineral Resources 1963-1972 and an active amateur ornithologist. He edited The Emu 1969-1981 and was Chief Editor of Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds (HANZAB) vols 1 and 2. Both volumes of HANZAB won the Whitley Award for the Best Zoological Handbook (in 1990 and 1993). Marchant was a Founding member of the ACT Group of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union (later called the Canberra Ornithologists Group), and initiated the RAOU's Nest Record Scheme. He was a major driving force in Australian ornithology.

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Chronology

c. 1931 - c. 1934

Career position - Geologist, Asiatic Petroleum Company, London

1938

Education - BA (hons) (geology, botany and zoology), University of Cambridge

c. 1938 - c. 1939

Career position - Geologist, Asiatic Petroleum Company, London

c. 1939 - c. 1940

Career position - Petroleum geologist, Shell Company, in Nigeria

1943 - 1945

Military service - Second World War. Lieutenant, Australian Imperial Forces, as Coastwatcher in New Guinea and New Britain

c. 1946 - 1950

Career position - Petroleum geologist, Shell Company, in Nigeria

1950 - 1954

Career position - Lecturer in geology, University of Birmingham

c. 1954 - 1958

Career position - Petroleum geologist, Shell Company, in Ecuador

1959 - 1962

Career position - Petroleum geologist, Shell Company, in Iraq

1963

Life event - Settled in Australia

1963 - 1969

Career position - Supervising Geologist, Bureau of Mineral Resources

1968

Career position - Chairman, ACT Group of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union (later called the Canberra Ornithologists Group)

1969 - 1971

Career position - Exploration Manager, Woodside Petroleum Ltd

1969 - 1981

Career position - Editor, The Emu

1971

Award - Union Medal, British Ornithologists Union

1975 - 1997

Award - Fellow, Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union

1986

Career position - Founder, Eurobodalla Natural History Society

1994

Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - for service to ornithology and nature conservation

1997

Award - J. N. Hobbs Memorial Medal, Birds Australia

1997 - 2003

Award - Fellow, Birds Australia

Related entries

Published resources

Journal Articles

• Davies, Stephen, 'Obituary - Stephen Marchant 1912-2003', Emu, 104, 89-90. Details
• Marchant, S., 'Critical History of 'Emu'', Emu, 72 (2) (1972), 51-69. Details
• Marchant, S., 'Obituary: Warren Billingsley Hitchcock', Emu, 85 (1) (1985), 51-2. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7609890. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/73931674. Details
• 'Marchant, S (1912-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-553409. Details

See also

• Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details