Ben Oostdam's Autobiography
as per January 4, 2004
Sections
CONTENTS 1932-1945:
My first seven years (1932-39); My "war-years", WW2
(1940-45)
CONTENTS 1946-1950:
Amstelveen; Hervormd Lyceum; Boy Scouts; Bike-tour to France (summer
1950)
CONTENTS
1950-1952: KIM (Royal Netherlands Naval Academy); cruises Mediterranean
(1950), New Guinea (1952)
CONTENTS 1952-1954:
Nationale Handelsbank; my boats; Lony, engagement, vacation Zeeland; to
Bangkok (1954)
CONTENTS
1954-1955: Bangkok, Dutch Bank,Nakorn Pathong, Ayudhya, Nakorn Nayok,
Petchaburi, Paknam, Kanchanaburi, Kao Yai,
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ChaChoengSao, Menam, HONGKONG, KOWLOON
CONTENTS 1956
: Kanchanaburi with Rudi Klerekoper, Tasau,
ChaChoengSao, Cynthia and Charles, Ayudhya, Nam Tok Salika,
Samud Sakorn,
- - - - - - - - - - - - - Tour by jeep
through THAILAND, CAMBODJA and VIETNAM
CONTENTS
1957: Petchaburi & Hua Hin, Kanchanaburi again, Saraburi &
Lopburi, Sukothai, miscellanea
CONTENTS
1957-1958: : depart Bangkok for Holland, England,
CANADA : McGill University, Montreal, USA visits, NSBC job,
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- - - - - - - hitchhiking across Canada to British Columbia and back, BC
jobs
CONTENTS
1958-1959: McGill University, acad. year 1958-59, Ken Davis c.s.,
summerjob at Consol. Zinc, Bathurst, N.B.
- - - - - - - - - - hitchhiking
across NB, NS, PEI and Newfoundland; visit to St.Pierre and Miquelon (FRANCE)
CONTENTS
1959-1960: McGill University, acad. year 1959-60, summer fellow WHOI,
"CHAIN 13" to FINLAND; HOLLAND/Rijkswaterstaat with Zeiglers
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- - with jeep and Dorothy P. across USA to SIO, La Jolla, CA
CONTENTS
1960-1961: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA: students,
courses, profs, projects, CUSS I, Punta Banda, Cruise to Cabo San
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- - - - - Lucas, social life, JAPAN, Kyoto, JAPANYON
Expedition, the Shepards, Kamakura, Mount Fuli, Nikko, amas off Onjuku, MATS to
Hawaii
CONTENTS
1962: Seafloor Spreading, Menard, Dietz, Hess, Transform Faults, Raitt,
Mantle Convection, MORs, Holmes, Vening Meinesz, Field,
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symmetry, offscraping, subduction zones, SCUBA dives off La Jolla, SIO and La
Jolla Canyons, abalone, moray, shark,squid, turbidity current,
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- - - HAWAII II, Shepard, Veeh, Moberly, HIG, Cox, 2002
update on individual islands
CONTENTS
1963a: Return to Hawaii, problems with project proposal, professors,
cars and trailers; return to Maui: Black Coral diving with Rick Grigg,
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- - - - - - - La Perouse Bay, Jason, Paul Hoffmeister; marriage to Rose
Peterson
CONTENTS
1963b: Honeymoon Phase I: Maui, Phase II: Honolulu-Amsterdam; Phase III:
HOLLAND ;incl. Amsterdam
canals;
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - phase IV: Heidelberg,
Soultz, Orange, Avignon, Marseille, Monaco, Genoa, TOUR LOG;
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- - - - - - - - - - - Rapallo, La Spezia, Pisa, Florence, Lake Vico,
VATICAN,
Rome, Pompeji, Taranto, Brindisi
CONTENTS
1963c: Corfu, Ithaca, Patras, Pyraeus, Athens, Peleponesos, Thebes,
Delphi, Marathon.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11th International Jamboree,
Bari, San Marino, Venice, Innsbruck, Liechtenstein, Zurich,
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- - - - - - Nancy, Metz, Luxembourg, Clervaux, Remouchamps, Liege, 's
Hertogenbosch, Zaltbommel, Amstelveen
CONTENTS
1963d: Washington call re S. Africa; Den Haag, Brielle, Hellevoetsluis,
Rijswijk,
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - London, Los Angeles, La Jolla, Rose to
Hawaii,rewrite Report,
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - discussions with Inman,
Shepard, Goldberg, McGowan; Soutar, d'Anglejean, Veeh
CONTENTS
1963e
: Long Beach, CA: Craig's Shipyard, "Rockeater"Bascom,
Stephansen, Lampietti, beach
proposal
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - and preliminary tests, gopher,
Captain Cook, back to La Jolla, committee meeting; Long Beach to
Washington:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - OSE, New York, Dakar, Johannesburg :
Anglo-American meetings
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Capetown: more meetings; Oranjemund: even more ... construction/tests of
surf-crawler, suction pipe carriage
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - flight along
coast to Luderitz; Affenrucken: lobsters
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- - - - - -Return to Capetown office: "Xhosa Coast" Cruises, diving,
- - - - - - - -
- - - - - -loss of Joe Wright,preps for geolab module "Rockeater";
- - - - - - - -
- - - - - -Chris, camping
(more to follow)
1963 - 1965: Ocean
Science & Engineering, S.A.: Diamonds from the Sea
1966 -
1976: The Marine Science Consortium, PA, DE, VA ; Millersville University
1976 -
1978: KISR, Kuwait - - - to follow
1978 Tour of Africa,
Asia, Pacific: - - - more under construction
. . . Indonesia,
1978
1980 -
1982: UNDP - IMA, Trinidad and Tobago - - - to follow
1983: China Tour with
Pacific Delight Tours: Changjiang Canyons, etc.
(under
construction)
1986:
Virgin Islands : Toxic
Substances in the Coastal Environment- - - to follow
1988:
Indonesia
1988
: China : Guest lecturer on Estuaries at East China Normal University,
Shanghai - - -to follow
1989: USIA
AMPART Lecture
Tour: Barbados, Dominica, Syria, New Zealand - - -to follow
Memories of a dozen years
ago: MU1991/2
1990
- 1997: Millersville University, PA - - - more to follow
. . .
Caribbean Coastal
Studies
1998: Touring
Namibia with Mercia
1999/2000: Y2K
Tour of Indonesia with Paul Billeter
2000: HOLLAND 2000: KIM 50th
Reunion, Den Helder;
- - - - - Amsterdam, Middelburg Z.H., Leiden, Reeuwijk,
Venlo, Zutphen, Eindhoven-Utrecht
1998-2000:
Novembers' status of Strawbale Pavilion
2001/2 Tour of
Rwanda, Kenya and Holland
- - - including presenting workshop at
National University of Rwanda, Butare
with Paul Billeter, Rick
Millis and Eugene Kaplan
latest updates: Feb.17, April 7, June 26, Aug.8, Sep.28,
Oct.6, Nov.6, 2002; Jan.13, Mar.29, June 29, October 6, 27, November 23,
2003; Jan.4, 2004 - - COMMENTS ? - -
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