John Clark (35) (1927–2010)

[excerpt from Bio One Digital Library online memorial]
He started his career at Woods Hole and became an accomplished diver in the 1950s. In the 1960s, he was Assistant Director of the Sandy Hook Marine Laboratory in New Jersey, and in the early 1970s, he directed the Narragansett Marine Laboratory in Rhode Island. Then he became a senior associate with the Conservation Foundation in Washington, D.C., where his involvement with coastal zone conservation policy was influential in the Coastal Zone Management and Clean Water programs. In the 1970s he became a snowbird, living in Key West and finally on Ramrod Key in Florida. John “retired” in 1987, becoming a full-time Keys resident, but continuing as an international consultant on coastal zone management.

A recipient of several professional awards, John wrote more than 100 papers and authored/edited many books. The most notable were Coastal Ecosystem Management (1977) and Coastal Zone Management Handbook (1996), which were foundation stones of coastal management.