Documents relating to the true history of the Earth Sciences at Flinders University

As a past Adelaide and Flinders University Professor of Mathematics and Oceanography, I have read with consternation on a Flinders University Web Page the statement:

Founded in 1973, Earth Sciences at Flinders University is unique in
Australia in offering a range of inter-disciplinary teaching and research on
many aspects of our natural environment. These include the "solid Earth"
(geology,geophysics and marine geoscience) and the "fluids" (meteorology
oceanography and hydrology). The School is associated with two centres of
excellence in Airborne Research Australia and the National Tidal Facility,
and is closely connected with the Centre for Groundwater Studies. These
resources make Flinders one of the pre-eminent centres of Earth Science
activity within Australia.

I owe it to my former colleagues, my students, future staff and myself to present here a range of newspaper cuttings from the years 1965 onwards, collected by my then highly valued secretary Mrs. Betty Parker.

AA Adelaide Advertiser CT Canberra Times SM Sunday Mail WS SA Water Sport
FU Flinders University N News PLT Port Lincoln Times

AA - 16.2.1965	Sea research planned	A - 11.9.1967	Aims to find key to Blue Lake mystery
AA - 18.3.1965	Seas may hold key to economy	AA - 15.9.1967	Tide prediction by computer
AA - 10.11.1965	S.A. study of ocean problems	AA - 21.9.1967	Research on ocean
AA. - 4.5.1966	Scientific watch on S.A. waters	AA - 25.9.1967	Fish populations "wiped out"
AA - 18.6.1966	Horace Lamb Centre	AA - 5.10.1967	Gales curtain ocean study
AA - 10.8.1966 AA - 10.8.	Appreciation of SA by Vice President of Russian Academy of Science S.A. study of oceans	N - 13.11.1967	Blue Lake again
AA - 11.8.1966	S.A. scientist lauds Soviet	AA - 15.11.1967	Lake color research
AA - 16.8.1966	S.A. scientist for Chile	WS - 22.12.1967	Relic of the past - Old anchor recovered at Grange
AA - 30.8.1966	Research role for students	AA - 2.4.1968	Wife sees her mountain
AA - 14.9.1966	S.A. to chart tides	AA - 24.5.1968	S.A. role in ocean research
CT- 1.2.1967	Ocean study could help control our climate	AA - 31.7.1968	"Floating Lab" due
AA - 28.2.1967	S.A. study of canyons	AA - 8.8.1968	A. soils authority made professor
AA - 2.3.1967	SA man for sea survey	AA - 26.12.1968	.Full-time job on the ocean
AA - 21.3.1967	S.A. scientist finds biggest sea canyon	AA - 1.2.1969	Tide study has cost $ 100,000
AA - 25.4.1967	Coast bagged by tide gauge	PLT - 13.2.1969	To study sea effect on weather
AA - 11.5.1967	Machine to clock waves	FU - March, 1969	New development in oceanography
AA - 12.5.1967	Wave study	AA - April 1969	Govt. aware of S.E. need
AA - 20.5.1967	Funds 'need' of research	N - 14.8.1969	KI may get marine research station
AA - 3.5.1967	Sewer ocean study	AA - 12.4.1969	$1,500 as reward
AA - 13.7.1967	Tide survey of continent	N - 15.9.1969	Iceberg plan not feasible
SM - 1.7.1967	FISH four steps urged to lift industry in S.A.	N - 23.10.1969	20 Flinders members in study party
SM - 15.7.1967	What's happened to our weather Big 'hot' water bottle guarding S.A.	AA - 4.12.1969	Seeking ocean secrets
AA - 5.8.1967	Computerised ship coming; navigates by satellite
SM - 9.9.1967	Blue Lake may give up secret

Details of the many reports, papers and theses during these years are listed in the Horace Lamb Centre Reports in the Flinders Library. My biographies "SURVIVAL" (Bangkok 1992) and "Königsberg - Melbourne/ Vertreibung aus Ostpreußen im Dritten Reich" (Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Lüneburg, 1998) give personal details.