John Steele, great marine ecologist and former director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, passed away on 5 November 2013. On 11 January 2014, WHOI celebrated his career, described at this website
https://hughsteele-public.sharepoint.com/
John and Jesse Ausubel co-authored the 1993 paper Flat Organizations for Earth Sciences.
John’s insights were crucial to the early definition of the Census of Marine Life research program. Some of these were articulated in the National Research Council (Ocean Studies Board) report, Assessing the Global Distribution and Abundance of Marine Organisms, Workshop, Monterey, California, January 1998.