Gerard Frederick van Tets
Van Tets swam for the swimming teams of British Troops Austria, the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia. Van Tets received recognition for his studies on bird strike damage to aircraft, and later for his studies of the bird bones in the Australian National Wildlife Collection, including those of the extinct Tasman booby which he described scientifically in 1988, and became a specialist authority on the mutton bird and the cormorant family. Together with Michael Crowley, Chris Davey, Peter Fullagar, Ederic Slater, Petrus Heyligers and others, Van Tets helped to establish and maintain  a long term ecological study on Montague Island, NSW. Van Tets served as compiler for the first four bird (Aves) volumes of the Zoological Catalogue of Australia and as a sub-editor for behaviour for the first three volumes of the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds. On retirement in 1988, Van Tets continued to work as a research fellow and as curator of osteology for the Australian National Wildlife Collection and the Faunal Reference Collection of the Prehistory Department of the Australian National University. He died in Canberra, Australia on 14 January 1995. Van Tets was survived  by his wife and three children, Janet Bradly, Ian van Tets and Kit Cassidy. The extinct New Zealand stiff-tailed duck, "Oxyura vantetsi", was named in his honour. The Gerard Frederick van Tets Field Research Station on Montague Island, NSW was named in recognition of Jerry's work there.