Stuart Harris
Stuart Arthur Harris was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire on 14th January 1931. He earned a B.Sc. (Honours), M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Geology, as well as a D.Sc. in Geography from Queen Mary University, London. Advised the Chief Engineers Branch, British Troops Egypt, and the Arab Legion Engineers in Jordan, solving problems in geology, water supply, and engineering. Subsequently, he was a soil surveyor for Hunting Technical Services, before becoming a Soil Surveyor for the Government of Guyana. He taught Geography in the Departments of the University of Chicago, Wilfred Laurier University, and the University of Kansas before joining the University of Calgary in 1969. The Russian Geographical Society awarded him the Nikolai Mihailovich Prjevalsky Medal for his work on Alpine Permafrost in 1996. He has also organized three International Field Trips in the Canadian Rocky Mountains for International Conferences.