Oliver Michael Griffiths Newman (born 1941) is an Australian
metallurgist
Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys.
Metallurgy encompasses both the sc ...
, administrator and amateur
ornithologist
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who has worked for many years with
Pasminco
Pasminco was an Australian mining company founded in 1988. It was placed in voluntary administration in September 2001 with its assets sold in stages until 2004 when the remaining assets were spun-off to Zinifex.
History
Pasminco was establish ...
EZ Ltd in
Tasmania
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and
Newcastle, New South Wales
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. In Tasmania he was involved with studies on
wader
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s, especially the breeding biology of
pied oystercatchers. He became a member of the
Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in 1968. He was regional organizer for the RAOU's
Atlas of Australian Birds
The Atlas of Australian Birds is a major ongoing database project initiated and managed by BirdLife Australia (formerly the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union) to map the distribution of Australia's bird species. BirdLife Australia is a no ...
project 1977–1981. He served on the RAOU Council 1982–1988, and again from 1999, including chairing the Research Committee. He was elected a
Fellow of the RAOU in 2003.
See also
*
List of ornithologists
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*John Abbot (entomologist), John Abbot – US
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References
*Robin, Libby. (2001). ''The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001''. Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press.
Newman, Mike
1941 births
Living people
Australian metallurgists
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