Remembering Bob Carter A GSNZ Tribute

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Table 1 (Continued) Some awards Some Society memberships * Commonwealth Scholarship, British Council, University of Cambridge, UK (1964-1967) * Nuffield Fellow, University of Oxford, UK (1974) * Hochstetter Lecturer, Geological (now Geoscience) Society of New Zealand (1975) * Bennison Distinguished Overseas Lecturer, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (1992) * Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of New Zealand (1997) * Special Investigator Research Award, Australian Research Council (1998) * Outstanding Research Career, marine geology, GSNZ (2005) * Lifetime Achievement Award, Heartland Institute, USA (2015) * Geological (now Geoscience) Society of New Zealand (GSNZ) * Geological Society of Australia (GSA) * Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) * Geological Society of America (GSA) * American Geophysical Union (AGU) * American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) * Society of Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) * New Zealand Climate Science Coalition (NZCSC) Publications * 137 peer-reviewed scientific articles (1965-2015) * 2 books and 6 major reports on ‘climate change’ (since 2010) * Numerous conference presentations/abstracts (1965-2015) * 266 newspaper/popular articles (mainly since 2002) * 25 radio interviews (mainly since 2002) * 21 video presentations (mainly since 2002) Fig.1. Bob reviewing some core logs on the JOIDES Resolution IODP Expedition 317 off eastern South Island, New Zealand in late 2009. Photo source: William Crawford, IODP. Tributes The following personal tributes for Bob Carter (#1 - #34) have been arranged in alphabetical order of the surnames of contributors, except that the eulogy given at Bob’s funeral by Bill Lindqvist, Bob’s brother-in-law, has been placed first as it covers many facets of Bob’s life. 4 Issue 19A Supplement
#1 - Eulogy (24 January 2016) for Bob Carter, 1942-2016 Bill Lindqvist (Bob’s brother-in-law) 3 Cazadero Lane, Tiburon California 94920, USA william_lindqvist@yahoo.com I first met Bob some 53 years ago. The year was 1962. He was a 3 rd year honours geology student at Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand, and I was doing 1 st year geology as part of a mining engineering degree. I soon got to know Bob quite well since, being one of the most dynamic and enthusiastic of the senior students, he was asked to assist the teaching staff on 1 st year geological field trips. One early memory is that Bob, in addition to his geological skills, was able to roll cigarettes with one hand while driving the departmental land rover with the other. It was obvious early on that Bob had a passion for fieldwork on soft rocks and fossils and this was a love that never left him. And talking of love, Bob began courting a beautiful young arts student from Invercargill with the name of Anne Verngreen. And as luck would have it and quite independently, I started courting an equally striking young science student with the name of Helen Verngreen – Anne’s younger sister. Bob and Anne graduated in 1963 and shortly thereafter married. A few months later they set off for England where Bob, with a Commonwealth Scholarship tucked in his pocket, started a PhD on Functional Studies of Bivalvia at Cambridge. Anne took a teaching job at the Bell School of Languages to help keep Bob in red wine. Meanwhile Helen and I graduated and also married and two years later we arrived in London where I started a PhD at Imperial College. It wasn’t long before we met up with the Carters again. A deciding moment, or I should say deciding month, came along as the four of us embarked on a four week long camping trip to Scandinavia. Needless to say we all got along swimmingly and this experience cemented a close and valued friendship that has continued to this day. We have several memories of this trip and here is one. It was in a forest in southern Sweden infested with hordes of tiny biting flies known as ‘noseums’. Bob and I, being true gentlemen, retreated to the tents to smoke and drink beer in a valiant attempt to keep flies at bay – while the ladies stayed outside to cook dinner surrounded by clouds of the nipping insects. We never quite lived that down. After Cambridge, Bob and Anne returned to Otago University in Dunedin where Bob was appointed to a lectureship in Geology, and in the years that followed two bright young children came along – first Susan and then Jeremy. Geoscience Society of New Zealand 5
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