Person

van Tets, Gerard Frederick (1929 - 1995)

Born
1929
England
Died
1995
Occupation
Palaeontologist and Ornithologist

Summary

Gerard van Tets worked for CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology and on retirement continued to work there in an honorary capacity for the Australian National Wildlife Collection. He was interested in palaeontology and ornithology (cormorants and other water birds).

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Born England, 1929. Died 1995. Educated University of British Columbia (PhD 1963). Arrived Australia 1963 and joined CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology to study bird strikes and aircraft, later becoming involved with the osteological part of the Australian National Wildlife Collection. After his retirement in the late 1980s he continued with this work as an Honorary Curator and also worked in the Department of Prehistory at the Australian National University one or two days a week.

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Journal Articles

  • Hope, J. H., Lampert, R. J., Edmondson, E., Smith, M. J. and Van Tets, G. F., 'Late Pleistocene faunal remains from Seton rock shelter, Kangaroo Island, South Australia', Journal of biogeography, 4 (4) (1977), 363-85. Details
  • Van Tets, G. F. and Smith, Meredith J., 'Small fossil vertebrates from Victoria Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia III: birds (Aves)', Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 98 (4) (1974), 225-8. Details

Resources

See also

  • Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details

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