Gilbert L. Voss

Gilbert L. Voss (1918 – 23 January, 1989) was an American conservationist and oceanographer.[1] He was one of the main persons behind the establishment of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park in Florida.[2]

A teuthologist, Voss "served the leading role in American cephalopod research for nearly 40 years".[3] Michael J. Sweeney and Clyde F. E. Roper wrote of Voss's contribution to the field:[3]

So important is his influence on the resurgence of cephalopod systematic research, hardly a paper has been published in cephalopod systematics and zoogeography, and even other aspects of cephalopod biology and fisheries, that doesn't cite at least one paper published by Voss. This has been the case for nearly 4 decades and it will continue to be so for many decades into the 21st Century.

Voss authored the book Seashore Life of Florida and the Caribbean. A species of swimming crab, Portunus vossi, is named after him.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Gilbert L. Voss, 70, a conservationist, dies". The New York Times. 26 January 1989. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/26/obituaries/gilbert-l-voss-70-a-conservationist-dies.html. Retrieved 14 December 2010. 
  2. ^ John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department.
  3. ^ a b Sweeney, M.J. & Roper, C.F.E. (September 1991). Gilbert L. Voss: a commemoration, bibliography and described taxa. Bulletin of Marine Science 49(1–2): 5–19.
  4. ^ Lemaitre, R. (September 1991). To the memory of Gilbert L. Voss: Portunus vossi, a rare new species of swimming crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae) from the west coast of Florida. Bulletin of Marine Science 49(1–2): 546–551.

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