[Coral-List] The passing or one of the coral greats

[JJ]

Amen!

On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 8:38 AM Eugene Shinn via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

>       The coral reef research community and conservationists have lost
> one of its Greats. Dr. John C. Ogden left us at 11:10 PM June 25. He was
> only 82 when he passed following complications from a hip operation.
> John received his PhD from Stanford University under the famous
> Population Bomb author, Paul R. Ehrlich. Although John began as bird
> Specialist, he headed to Panama for a post doc with the Smithsonian
> Tropical Research Institute where he studied parrotfish. That led him to
> the West Indies Lab on St. Croix in 1971 where he became resident marine
> biologist and later the director. He was also Original Director of the
> NOAA HYDROLAB facility and became an aquanaut. John was an early leader
> in the developing field of behavioral ecology and initiated
> Caribbean-wide Seagrass Ecosystem studies.
>
> He moved to St. Petersburg, Florida as director of the Florida Institute
> of Oceanography where he added the Keys Marine Lab to FIO facilities. He
> worked tirelessly to help get the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
> established in 1990. John published over 70 papers, contributed to
> numerous books and produced several television programs about tropical
> ecosystems. He worked on policy and research relating to the
> conservation of coral reefs and tropical ecosystems with NSF, NOAA, U. S
> Dept of State, the World Bank, UNESCO, WWF, and private Foundations.
> Anyone involved with coral reef research will know he is responsible for
> much, much more. When he served on numerous coral reef committees in the
> Florida Keys he always brought up the most important subjects. John will
> be greatly missed by the coral reef research community world-wide. Gene
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