Person

Perry, Rayden Alfred (1925 - 2004)

AO FTSE

Born
2 July 1925
Port Noarlunga, South Australia, Australia
Died
4 January 2004
Western Australia, Australia
Occupation
Environmental scientist and Science administrator

Summary

Rayden Perry was an environmental scientist whose expertise was in rangeland management. He joined the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in 1947: after a 40-year career spent largely with CSIRO divisions concerned with rangelands research, he retired in 1986 as Chief of the Division of Groundwater Research. During this time he pioneered methods of surveying land forms, geology and vegetaion which were essential for land use planning. Perry was active in scientific societies, being a founding member and President of the Australian Rangelands Society, and President of the Ecological Society of Australia. Perry made significant collections of plant specimens in the northern and arid areas of Australia: many of these are in the National Herbarium of New South Wales. In retirement he organised research into the failure of nacre development in the cultured pearl industry.

Details

Chronology

1947
Career position - Research Officer in the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Division of Soils
1948
Career position - Research Officer in the CSIR Division of Plant Industry
1954
Career position - Senior Research Officer in the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Land Research and Regional Survey
1959
Career position - Principal Research Officer in the CSIRO Divisions of Land Research and Regional Survey
1965 - 1966
Career position - President, Ecological Society of Australia
1967
Career position - Senior Principal Research Officer in the CSIRO Division of Land Research and Regional Survey
1969
Career position - Leader of the CSIRO Rangelands Research Unit
1973 - 1982
Career position - Chief of CSIRO Land Resources Management
1975 - 1987
Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)
1982 - 1986
Career position - Chief of CSIRO Division of Groundwater Research
1983 - 1985
Career position - President, Australian Rangeland Society
1986 - 2000
Career position - Secretary, Western Australian Division of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
1987 - 2004
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Foundation Fellow AATS 1975]
1988 - 1991
Career position - President, International Rangeland Congress
1988 - 2004
Career position - Executive Director of Perry Consulting Pty. Ltd.
1991
Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to science and to the environment, particularly through land resources management
2001
Award - Centenary Medal for service tp Australian society in research and development

Published resources

Books

  • Perry, R. A., Pasture lands of the Northern Territory, Australia (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1960), 55 pp. Details

Edited Books

  • Slatyer, R. O.; and Perry, R. A. eds, Arid lands of Australia (Canberra: ANU Press, 1969), 321 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Wilcox, D. G., 'Rayden Alfred Perry', Range management newsletter, 4 (March) (2004), 9-10. Details

Resources

Ailie Smith and Helen Cohn

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