JOHN ANDREW MUSICK, known to all as Jack, passed away at home in Gloucester, Virginia, on February 13, 2021, just over one month after his 80th birthday. Jack was a longtime member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH) among other professional societies, and a preeminent ichthyologist specializing in the biology, conservation, and management of sharks, but with substantive contributions to the study of bony fishes, sea turtles, and marine ecology, conservation, and management generally. Jack published broadly on a wide range of vertebrate taxa and topics, including systematics, evolution, behavior, fisheries biology, and marine conservation. As a professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and chair or co-chair of 87 graduate student committees (and serving as a committee member to many more), Jack was influential for a large number of students, a contribution that he considered to be his most important and lasting legacy to marine...

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