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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-05-25 human Rosanne Walker updated 2025-11-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003971b.htm person Stewart George Alan AACR2 17 June 1922 Agricultural scientist Alan Stewart was Senior Survey Officer, CSIRO Division of Land Research and Regional Survey 1951-1960. He and a colleague, C.S. Christian (qv), proposed a land system survey involving the then revolutionary concept of using air photographs as an analogue model of the land resource to identify broad scale recurring patterns of land units, and then determining their characteristics by stereoscopic examination and field traverse sampling. Stewart was educated at the University of Melbourne (MAgrSc). 1944 1951 Career position - Soil surveyor at the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Soils 1951 1960 Career position - Senior Survey Officer with the Division of Land Research and Regional Survey 1960 1973 Career position - Chief of the CSIRO Division of Land Research in Canberra 1973 1976 Career position - Officer-in-Charge of the Agroindustrial Research Unit 1976 Career position - Co-ordinator of the Agroindustrial Systems Program of the Division of Chemical Technology CSIR/O Division of Soils, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1929 - 1997)

Soil Surveyor 1944 - 1951

 CSIRO Division of Land Research, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1965 - 1973) 1960 1973

Chief of the CSIRO Division of Land Research in Canberra from 1960 - 1973

 Stewart, G A (19220617-)

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 'Stewart, George Alan (Alan)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Stewart, George Alan (Alan) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: A history of CSIRO'S Central Australian Laboratory, 1: 1953-80: pastoral land research Friedel, Margaret H.; and Morton, Stephen R. A history of CSIRO'S Central Australian Laboratory, 1: 1953-80: pastoral land research 2023 Historical records of Australian Science 34 1 36-49 Resource: Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Online Melbourne Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre 2000