[Coral-List] Fwd: [Cnidaria] Passing of Prof Daphne Fautin

[Lasker, Howard]

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Subject: 	[Cnidaria] Passing of Prof Daphne Fautin
Date: 	Tue, 16 Mar 2021 02:03:12 +0000
From: 	Michela Mitchell <mmitchel at museum.vic.gov.au>
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Dear All

It is with great sadness we advise the cnidarian world of the passing of 
Professor Daphne Fautin over the weekend after a long-term illness.

Her legacy is to leave a monumental research contribution to cnidarian 
studies over the years. Her research on the reproduction, general 
biology and taxonomy of sea anemones, in particular, is second to none. 
Her research was not limited only to the Actiniaria but included many of 
the other cnidarian orders. Herself being trained by Cadet Hand, she in 
turn mentored some of the finest taxonomists we currently have. She 
travelled the world to numerous museums searching for type specimens and 
documenting their location and identifying specimens, you will see her 
name in many specimen jars. She produced over of 150 publications, 
including books, and saw the creation of the pivotal database 
Hexacorallians of the World.


She served on the ICZN committee, the International Steering Committee 
of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System, the US National Committee 
for the International Union of Biological Sciences and chaired the US 
National Committee for the Census of Marine Life along with serving on 
numerous granting body committees. She was the long-standing curator at 
Kansas University Natural History Museum and served as editor on many 
publications.

Personally, she will be remembered for her inquisitiveness, earrings, 
her ready smile, love of flying planes and unbelievable ability to be 
able to work from the time she got up to when she went to bed. She would 
spend hours responding to emails from around the world, none of which 
were safe from her editing skills.

She is survived by her husband Bob Buddemeier, with whom I am sure we 
all share our condolences. Her passing has left a very large hole in the 
sea anemone taxonomist community.

Vale Daphne and thank you, words are not enough to describe the impact 
you had on science and people with whom you worked.

Michela Mitchell, Meg Daly and Andrea Crowther

<https://museumsvictoria.com.au/>


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