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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-04-20 human Rosanne Walker updated 2024-11-19 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003203b.htm person van Tets Gerard Frederick AACR2 1929 1995 Place of Birth England Palaeontologist Ornithologist 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).

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.

 CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1987 - 2000)

Worked at the Division of Wildlife and Ecology, CSIRO

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 Van Tets, G F (1929-1995)

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 'van Tets, Gerard Frederick', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology van Tets, Gerard Frederick Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Late Pleistocene faunal remains from Seton rock shelter, Kangaroo Island, South Australia 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 1977 Journal of biogeography 4 4 363-85 Journal Article: Small fossil vertebrates from Victoria Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia III: birds (Aves) Van Tets, G. F. and Smith, Meredith J. Small fossil vertebrates from Victoria Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia III: birds (Aves) 1974 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 98 4 225-8 Book: The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Robin, Libby The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2001