William Graham Henderson Maxwell
William Graham Henderson Maxwell (1929-18 July 1999) was an Australian geologist and academic who did extensive research on the Great Barrier Reef.
Early life
William Graham Henderson Maxwell (known as Graham Maxwell) was born in Atherton, Queensland in 1929. He attended Gordonvale State School and Thornburgh College in Charters Towers.
He enrolled in the University of Queensland and took his B.Sc. with Honours degree in 1950.[1] He was awarded a CSIRO scholarship to continue his studies. Maxwell was the first person to be awarded a PhD at the University of Queensland, in 1952, under the supervision of Dorothy Hill.[2]
He was awarded the Beit Fellowship for Scientific Research to Imperial College London in 1952.[3]
Career
In the mid 1950s, Maxwell worked as a geologist for Shell in Trinidad.[4] He also lectured at the University of Queensland from 1960-1962 and helped to identify the Yarrol Basin in 1964.[5] He was Associate Professor and later Professor in Geology at the University of Sydney from 1962-1972, retiring in 1972. Maxwell was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin in 1964.[6]
Maxwell and his team of students at the University of Sydney, mapped the surface sediments of the whole of the Great Barrier Reef province for the book, Atlas of the Great Barrier Reef. They used aerial photography to conduct their geomorphological work.[7]
From 1965, some of Maxwell's research was supported by the American Petroleum Institute and the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society.[8]
In 1970, Maxwell gave evidence to the Commonwealth Crown of Thorns Starfish Committee of Inquiry.[9]
He took his D.Sc. from the University of Queensland in 1970.
Maxwell died in Queensland in 1999.
Publications
- Elements of the stratigraphy of Queensland (1962)
- Atlas of the Great Barrier Reef (1968)
- Bibliography of the Great Barrier Reef Province (1978)
- Offshore Australia : the continental shelf, the slope, and beyond prepared by Bank of New South Wales
- A school on the towers : the story of Blackheath and Thornburgh College (1919-1987) (1998)
Professional memberships
Maxwell was made life member of Queensland Paleontological Society in 1963.[10]
References
- ^ "Northern Student's Success. - Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954) - 15 Jan 1949". Trove. Retrieved 2017-04-19.
- ^ "UQ celebrates 5000th PhD graduate". UQ News. Retrieved 2017-04-19.
- ^ "North Queenslander's Success. - Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954) - 1 Aug 1952". Trove. Retrieved 2017-04-19.
- ^ Hill, Dorothy. "The first fifty years of the Department of Geology of the University of Queensland". Papers, Department of Geology, The University of Queensland. 10 (1): 41.
- ^ Maxwell, William Graham Henderson (1964). "The Geology of the Yarrol Region.Part 1. Biostratigraphy" (PDF). Papers, Department of Geology, The University of Queensland. 5 (9): 1–81.
- ^ "Geology faculty news" (PDF). Department of Geology University of Texas Newsletter. 13: 3. August 1964.
- ^ Hopley, David, Smithers, Scott G. and Parnell, Kevin E. (2007). Geomorphology of the Great Barrier Reef: development, diversity and change. Cambridge University Press. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-0-511-28524-0.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Maxwell, W.G.H. (1968). Atlas of the Great Barrier Reef. Elsevier. pp. Acknowledgements.
- ^ Kenchington, Richard A. (1978-04-01). "The Crown-of-thorns Crisis in Australia: A Retrospective Analysis". Environmental Conservation. 5 (1): 11–20. doi:10.1017/S0376892900005191. ISSN 1469-4387.
- ^ Cooper, B.J. and Branagan, D.F. (1994). Rock me hard, rock me soft. Geological Society of Australia. p. 98. ISBN 0909869898.
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