T. Victor Loudon

Timeline

	Born
	Four years of wellsite-work and regional subsurface mapping, Canada
	Three years of study for a PhD, exploring computer methods while mapping sedimentary and structural geology in Banffshire, Scotland
	Six years of post-doctoral research on geological computer applications followed, at Northwestern University (Illinois), Reading University (England), and the Kansas Geological Survey
1969	Appointed by Institute of Geological Sciences (now BGS) to lead Computer Unit
1978	Computer Unit subsumed into NERC Computer Service
	Transferred to BGS Edinburgh
	Retired
	BGS Honorary Research Associate
2021	Died

Publications

Loudon, T. V. 2012 The basics of systems geology. British Geological Survey. (UNSPECIFIED) (Unpublished)

Loudon, T.V. 2012 Suggestions for information architecture in systems geology. British Geological Survey, 31pp. (UNSPECIFIED) (Unpublished)

Loudon, T.V. 2011 A scenario for systems geology : suggestions concerning the emerging geoscience knowledge system and the future geological map. Nottingham, UK, British Geological Survey, 375pp. (RR/11/005).

Loudon, T.V. 2009 Four interacting aspects of a geological survey knowledge system. Computers & Geosciences, 35 (4). 700-705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2007.12.009 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2007.12.009>

Loudon, T.V.; Laxton, J.L. 2007 Steps toward Grid-based geological survey: Suggestions for a systems framework of models, ontologies and workflows. Geosphere, 3 (5). 319-336. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES00095.1 <https://doi.org/10.1130/GES00095.1>