Dear Jim,
I too am deeply saddened by the news of Fred's passing. He was kind,
generous and helpful. Please convey my sincere condolences to Judy.
Jerry
jerry
Jerry D Kudenov, Professor
Biological Sciences
University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, Alaska 99508-4614
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1.907.786.1769 (office)
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 5:41 PM, Barrie Jamieson <bgmjamieson from uq.edu.au>
wrote:
> Fred and Judy became my close friends when they worked at the University
> of Queensland.
>> Fred, always modest about his achievements, is sadly missed. Sincere
> condolences to Judy.
>> Regards to all,
>> Barrie Jamieson
>>>> Emeritus Professor BGM Jamieson
> School of Biological Sciences
> University of Queensland
> St. Lucia
> Brisbane
> Queensland 4072
> Australia
>> Mailing address:
> 1 Maxwell Court
> Coolum Beach
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> Australia
>> Phone 61 (0)7 54461716
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>http://barriegmjamieson.com>>>> ________________________________
> From: annelida-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu <annelida-bounces from oat.bio.> indiana.edu> on behalf of Simon, CA, Dr [csimon from sun.ac.za] <
>CSIMON from sun.ac.za>
> Sent: 09 July 2018 16:17
> To: James Blake; ANNELIDA
> Subject: RE: [Annelida] Re: Fred Grassle
>> Dear Jim
>> This is such sad news. My deepest sympathies to Judith and the rest of
> their family.
>> Carol
>> -----Original Message-----
> From: annelida-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu <annelida-bounces from oat.bio.> indiana.edu> On Behalf Of James Blake
> Sent: Sunday, July 8, 2018 7:23 PM
> To: ANNELIDA <annelida from magpie.bio.indiana.edu>
> Subject: [Annelida] Re: Fred Grassle
>> I have the sad duty to report that John Frederick Grassle (Fred) passed
> away July 6 2018, at the age of 78 after a long illness.
>>>> Fred was a giant in the field of deep-sea ecology, but perhaps best known
> among polychaete workers for research with his wife Judith Grassle on the
> biology of *Capitella *and the identification of reproductively isolated
> populations of *Capitella *that differed both in terms of life history
> patterns, morphology, and genetics. One of these species, eventually named
> *Capitella teleta*, has been maintained in culture in several laboratories
> and the subject of more than 200 papers over a wide variety of topics.
> These studies on *Capitella* were the first to effectively challenge the
> cosmopolitan species concepts then prevalent in the 1970s. Fred and Judy
> attended the 9th IPC in Portland, ME in 2007.
>>>> Fred’s legacy was well-documented in a lead article in the Deep-Sea
> Research II special issue vol. 56 (Numbers 19-20, published in September
> 2009) honoring him upon his retirement as Director of the Institute of
> Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University in 2008. A few of Fred’s
> major contributions to Marine Science as summarized in the special volume
> by Snelgrove et al. (2009: DSRII, 56: 1571-1576) are as follows:
>>>> Developed a conceptual model for deep-sea diversity with Howard Sanders,
> the Patch Mosaic Model.
>>>> Deep-sea colonization studies: experimental applications to deep-sea
> ecology; field tests of the Patch Mosaic Model and other components; slow
> recolonization of disturbed sediments in the deep sea. With Linda
> Morse-Porteous and Paul Snelgrove.
>>>> *Capitella *sibling species: Identified sibling species with different
> life history characteristics; opened a new field of investigation. With
> Judith Grassle.
>>>> Developed novel approaches to evaluate deep-sea benthic data with Woollcott
> Smith: Example: NESS (normalized expected species shared).
>>>> Buzzards Bay Oil Spill study: Now classic study of opportunistic species
> and recolonization of a disturbed habitat: with Howard Sanders.
>>>> First biological surveys of hydrothermal vents (Galapagos Rift, East
> Pacific Rise, Guaymas Basin, Gorda Ridge): at the time, a new field of
> study in the deep sea.
>>>> Ocean Dumping: Analysis of data from ocean dumping sites led to end of
> sludge dumping in U.S. waters.
>>>> Established the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers
> University.
>>>> High global diversity estimates in the deep sea benthos were proposed
> based on major deep-sea reconnaissance programs along the U.S. Atlantic
> continental slope: With Nancy Maciolek.
>>>> Established the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS).
>>>> Helped establish the 10 year Census of Marine Life of which several
> components were devoted to the deep sea.
> In addition, Fred was a strong supporter of high-quality systematics,
> recognizing that benthic data was only as good as the effort taken to
> identify the fauna. In that regard a close collaboration between our
> laboratory and Fred's was established during the years Fred was in Woods
> Hole. Most of the polychaetes we described from hydrothermal vents were
> from Fred's collections. I recall the day Nancy and I were asked to look at
> large spionid collected from the Guaymas Basin hydrothermal mounds. This
> was our first view of what was eventually described as Lindaspio
> dibranchiata, an unusual spionid with modified notochaetae in anterior
> setigers, unidentate hooded hooks, and both dorsal and ventral branchiae.
>> Jim Blake
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