Vogel and James Maxlow and by many others worldwide based on other relevant data. Despite the eventual acceptance of the plate movement and subduction paradigm over Carey's hypothesis, he is widely regarded as making substantial contributions to the field of tectonics and having considerable influence in the initial acceptance of continental drift over a static model. In 1946, he became the founding professor of geology at the University of Tasmania. He retired from this position 30 years later in 1976. In the Australia Day Honours list of 1977, Carey was awarded the Officer of the Order of Australia for his services to the field of geology. He, and a small number of other researchers, continued to support and investigate expanding earth models. Carey developed his expanding earth model independently of the prior work by Ott Christoph Hilgenberg, who proposed a similar model in his 1933 publication "Vom wachsenden Erdball" ("The Expanding Earth"). Carey only learned of Hilgenberg's work in 1956. Legacy The Geological Society of Australia's S. W. Carey Medal, for work in the field of tectonics (sensu lato), has been awarded at the biennial Australian Geological Convention since 1992. Publications BooksThe Expanding Earth, 448 pp., Elsevier, Amsterdam 1976 Theories of the Earth and Universe, 413 pp., Stanford University Press. 1988 Earth Universe Cosmos - University of Tasmania. 1996 Essays1958: The tectonic approach to continental drift. In: S. W. Carey (ed.): Continental Drift – A Symposium. University of Tasmania, Hobart, 177-363 (expanding Earth from p. 311 to p. 349) 1961. Palaeomagnetic evidence relevant to a change in the Earth's radius. Nature 190, pp 36. 1963: The asymmetry of the Earth. Australian Journal of Science 25, pp 369-383 and 479-488. 1970: Australia, New Guinea, and Melanesia in the current revolution in concepts of the evolution of the Earth. Search 1 (5), pp 178-189 1975: The Expanding Earth – an Essay Review. Earth Science Reviews, 11, 105-143. 1986: La Terra in espansione. Laterza, Bari. References External links ABC interview transcript Bright Sparcs biography of Samuel Warren Carey published by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre Warren Carey, Last of the Giants 1911 births 2002 deaths Military personnel from New South Wales Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science 20th-century Australian geologists Officers of the Order of Australia Z Special Unit personnel Australian Army officers Tectonicists