Ian Hutton doing research at Mt Glover on Lord Howe Island (credit Ian Hutton).
A young university graduate’s chance posting to Lord Howe Island has taken Ian Hutton OAM on a lifetime’s wondrous ecological adventure that Southern Cross University is set to recognise with an Honorary Doctorate.
Mr Hutton will be conferred the award of Honorary Doctor in Natural and Physical Sciences during graduation ceremonies at the Coffs Harbour campus on Saturday June 26.
Mr Hutton moved to Lord Howe Island from Sydney in 1980 as a Bureau of Meteorology weather observer for a two-year posting – but never left.
“Living on Lord Howe Island is like living inside a David Attenborough documentary,” Mr Hutton said of the World Heritage Listed location about 700 km northeast of Sydney.