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Article Category: Obituary
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Online Publication Date: 30 Oct 2024

John Andrew (Jack) Musick (1941–2021)

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Page Range: 506 – 518
DOI: 10.1643/t2024086
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Copyright: © 2024 by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.

Jack Musick and his mother Helen Blaskovitz Musick, 1940s, New Jersey. Photo courtesy of the Musick family.

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Fig. 2.

Jack Musick. (A) High school portrait. (B) Holding a Northern Copperhead, Agkistrodon contortrix. Dates and photographers unknown. Photos courtesy of the Musick family.

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Fig. 3.

Jack Musick. (A) With a specimen of a Bramble Shark (Echinorhinus brucus), 1968; photographer unknown, photo courtesy of the Musick family. (B) With a still frozen specimen (VIMS 8118) of the Indian Ocean Coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae, being prepared for dissection at VIMS in 1988; photo courtesy of VIMS. (C) At sea with bubblegum coral (Paragorgia arborea), date and photographer unknown, photo courtesy of the Musick family. (D) With a Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta); date and photographer unknown, photo courtesy of the Musick family.

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Fig. 4.

(A) Jack Musick. (B) Jack (right) with his wife, Beverly McMillan (left). (C) Jack (right) with his daughters Kate (left) and Susanna (center) at a Jimmy Buffett concert.

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Fig. 5.

Jack Musick’s academic children and grandchildren at a reception preceding the symposium “A Tribute to the Life and Works of Jack Musick: Biology and Conservation of Long-Lived Marine Vertebrates,” convened by ASIH and AES at the 2023 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, in Norfolk, Virginia. Standing (left to right): Dave Portnoy, Pat McGrath, Dominic Swift (obscured), Erin Seney, Brendan Talwar, Jack’s wife Bev McMillan, Matt Larson, Kate Mansfield, Andrij Horodysky, Ed Heist, Vince Saba (partially obscured), Brian Moe, Chip Cotton, Jason Romine, Jim Gelsleichter, Cheston Peterson, Dean Grubbs, Jasmin Graham, Jacque Carter, Matt Kolmann, Tom Munroe, Bryan Keller, George Sedberry, Ricardo Rosa, Labbish Chao. Kneeling (left to right): Jessica Dehn, Toby Daly-Engel, Alyssa Andres, Ashley Dawdy, Hafiz Hanafi, Eric Tung, Baian Lin. Photo by Eric J. Hilton.

Contributor Notes

1 Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary, Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062; Email: ehilton@vims.edu. Send correspondence to this address
2 State University of New York at Cobleskill, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife & Environmental Science, Cobleskill, New York 12043; Email: cottoncf@cobleskill.edu
3 Florida State University Coastal and Marine Laboratory, St. Teresa, Florida 32358
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