b'ASEG 2021 Honours and AwardsFeatureExploration Geophysics and in Preview. He has also shared hisDoug joined Aero Service in 1962 as a trainee cartographer and scientific skills as supervisor of post-graduate students andgeophysical data compiler whilst undertaking night studies in mentor to his staff. He is greatly admired for his achievementsland and engineering surveying at Sydney Technical College. by his peers and colleagues. Much of Dougs early training, leading to his unique expertise in aerial geophysical mapping, came from his time with the Malcolm Cattachs scientific and technical inventions andAero team and had a major influence on Dougs life direction. his pioneering contributions to exploration geoscience overThrough Aeros in-house training setup, he quickly became an four decades, demonstrate his exceptional and distinguishedexpert in precision base mapping, transcribing and processing contributions to the science and practice of geophysics, andanalogue geophysical data to produce exploration map it is appropriate that the profession now recognises theseproducts that set a world-class standard for that era.achievements with the award of the ASEG Gold Medal.Doug assisted geophysicists on many surveys, including Lindsay Ingall who consulted on some jobs. In 1964 Doug had to make a choice between a six-month contract of the aeromagnetic survey of the Great Barrier Reef, or continuing night college. No one refuses six months paid work on the Great Barrier Reef! He also met his future wife on this survey.In 1966, at the age of 22, Doug and Brian Lenon arranged with Aero Service to be their sole mapping subcontractors in Australia. After Aeros new parent company, Litton Industries, shut their overseas offices including Sydney at the end of 1966, a group of ex Aero managers formed new groups in competition to Litton. One of these was Geophysical Resources Development Company (GRD) based in Sydney, with Doug retained to manage the data and drafting sections. GRD had five aircraft flying geophysical surveys and over 80 personnel when the mining boom collapsed in 1972, and GRD went into receivership. Californian-based Geometrics formed their own airborne division and took on six ex-GRD Sydney staff including Doug, and two aircraft and crews.Mal CattachDoug continued with Geometrics until 1980 in various data processing and supervisory roles and later Field Operations Lindsay Ingall Memorial Award: Doug Morrison Manager. In 1980 Doug resigned from Geometrics and expanded The Lindsay Ingall Memorial Award is intended for thehis separate data processing contracting business, Southlands promotion of geophysics within the non-geophysicalGeophysical Services, carrying out tasks for most airborne community, including geologists, geochemists, engineers,contractors in Australia and the Pacific region. In 1994 he joined managers, politicians, the media or the general public. TheGeoterrex/DIGHEM as the data production supervisor and quality award honours the memory of an ASEG founder, past Presidentassurance manager before returning to survey sub-contracting in and Honorary Member, the late Lindsay Ingall for his capacity1998. In 2006 he was asked to join Fugro Ground Geophysics (later to cross geoscience boundaries, his ability to relate technicallyCGG) in Sydney where he remained until his retirement in 2013.and effectively with other professionals, regardless of theirWith his deeply embedded background in airborne geophysics, own understanding of the principles of geophysics, and for hisDoug has immersed himself in the history of global exploration enduring commitment to assist geoscientists across Australia.and particularly in the detailed history of Australian and It is awarded generally to an individual who has activelyinternational aviation surveying developments, establishing an promoted geophysics to the wider community. extensive reference network of aerial survey practitioners and In 2021, the award is made to Doug Morrison from Sydney.well-known experts in military, aviation and maritime matters. This award recognizes Dougs active promotion of the science,Through their little-known stories and personal reflections, and his technology, practice and history of geophysics, particularlyinternational access to personal and official archive material from airborne geophysical surveying, well beyond the bounds ofthis network and eminent scientific and history institutions, Dougs the exploration geophysics and service industries. The awardmost recent book, the ASEG 50th Anniversary Special Publication, acknowledges his authorship of many non-geophysical sciencehas provided the context for specialists and non-specialists to and aviation histories, and in particular the most recent ASEGappreciate the evolution of the airborne magnetometer and the 50th Anniversary Special Publication. early history of geophysical surveying and mappingFor more than 50 years, Doug has been well known and highlyIn recent years, Doug has written a number of science and regarded in those parts of the international aviation industryaviation histories that have been published in Historical Records that have forged the developments in technologies, practicesof Australian Science, the Transactions of the Royal Society of and innovations used in the wide range of aerial surveyingVictoria and the American Aviation Historical Society Journal and and mapping. He is widely acknowledged and respected as another aviation publications. He has published articles regularly expert in data processing and technical leadership of airbornein the ASEG Preview magazine covering Australias early history geophysical surveying and mapping projects around the world.of geophysical measurement and surveying. His extensive listing He has managed or contributed to airborne geophysical surveyof Preview articles has captured wider attention in education and mapping projects in Australia and overseas. community circles, and amongst military, aviation and maritime OCTOBER 2021 PREVIEW 50'