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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-06-30 human Rosanne Walker and Helen Cohn updated 2024-04-18 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003074b.htm person Marchant Stephen AM AACR2 11 August 1912 September 2003 Place of Birth Weston-under-Lizzard, Shropshire, England Place of Death Australia Geologist Ornithologist 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. c. 1931 c. 1934 Career position - Geologist, Asiatic Petroleum Company, London 1938 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 1963 Life event - Settled in Australia 1963 1969 Career position - Supervising Geologist, Bureau of Mineral Resources 1968 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 1971 Award - Union Medal, British Ornithologists Union 1975 1997 Award - Fellow, Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union 1986 1986 Career position - Founder, Eurobodalla Natural History Society 1994 1994 Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - for service to ornithology and nature conservation 1997 1997 Award - J. N. Hobbs Memorial Medal, Birds Australia 1997 2003 Award - Fellow, Birds Australia J. N. Hobbs Memorial Medal, Birdlife Australia (1995 - )

Awarded the Medal 1997

 Birds Australia (1997 - 2011)

Fellow 1997 - 2003

 Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union (1910 - 1997)

Fellow 1975 - 1997

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 Marchant, S (1912-)

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 'Marchant, Stephen', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Marchant, Stephen Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Obituary - Stephen Marchant 1912-2003 Davies, Stephen Obituary - Stephen Marchant 1912-2003 Emu 104 89-90 Journal Article: Obituary: Warren Billingsley Hitchcock Marchant, S. Obituary: Warren Billingsley Hitchcock 1985 Emu 85 1 51-2 Journal Article: Critical History of 'Emu' Marchant, S. Critical History of 'Emu' 1972 Emu 72 2 51-69 Book: The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Robin, Libby The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2001