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 Jack and Anne Rudloe coastal tour, St. Joseph Bay, AMM1539 |
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Jack Rudloe is a writer, naturalist, and environmental activist from Panacea, Florida, USA, who cofounded Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory.
Jack Rudloe was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 17, 1943. At age 14 he moved to Carrabelle Florida. His first work "Experiments With Sensitive Plants, Cassia Nictitans." was published in Scientific American while he was attending Tallahassee's Leon High School. However he left Florida State University after only two months. According to Rudloe's first book, "The Sea Brings Forth", he was asked to leave FSU by the Dean who had decided Rudloe was not college material and advised that he should consider a trade instead. In spite of his premature departure from FSU, Rudloe was hired by Marine Biologist Dexter M. Easton of Harvard University to collect striped burrfish and bat fish. This launched his independent career as a writer and specimen collector. He was mentored in the early days by John Steinbeck. He founded Gulf Specimen Marine Company in 1963. In 1971 Rudloe married marine biologist Anne Eidemiller; Anne Rudloe and together they founded Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory in 1980. He has two sons, Sky and Cypress. He lives in Panacea, Florida and is semi-retired but still assists at GSML and he continues to write. He is the author/coauthor of nine books, both fiction and nonfiction.
Rudloe has multiple acknowledgements from scientists about his personal contributions to and support of their research efforts in the marine science literature. Rudloe has also written numerous scientific articles, and technical publications himself. Rudloe was involved in early efforts to establish the now successful jellyfish export industry on the East Coast of the US. In 1968 he provided the first specimens of the bryozoan Bugula neritina used by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to develop the bryostatin family of drugs used for treatment of cancer, HIV, Alzheimer’s disease and strokes. He continues to work to find natural medicines from other sea organisms. Rudloe provides marine specimens to scientists worldwide, including some that were the first specimen known to science, such as Chiropsella rudloei. Rudloe has developed live culture techniques for food for captive animals otherwise considered difficult to raise in captivity including sea horses and the lesser electric ray (Narcine brasiliensis)
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