George studied at the “Tech” which became Strathclyde University. He graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering and progressed to do a PhD on “The sediment and water balance of the Clyde “. During the first year of his studies, he started to model by computer the hydrological cycle and wrote a paper on how to simulate river flows. This was noted by Stanford University, who invited George and his wife Irene to continue his PhD at Stanford. He was the first Split PhD at Strathclyde and progressed to be Vice President of a Stanford digital modelling spinout company called Hydrocomp aged 23.
He progressed to become Professor of Civil Engineering at Strathclyde, became an international consultant in diverse subjects designing reservoirs, flood mitigation systems, landfill sites, cleaning up contaminated land and peer reviewing nuclear waste disposal and oil platform removal.
He was elected President of the Institution of Civil Engineers based in London (2000) and President of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers (2023).
He has commercially farmed for 46 years and formed his own spinout company Envirocentre in 1995 now a multi-million business with over 60 highly trained staff.
Not yet fully retired, farms, builds, plays golf, walks and has been married to Irene for 56 years.
He will talk on “My Love Affair with the River Clyde”