The 2013 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Biological Production and Biological Environment
• Achievement:
  Contribution to marine environmental conservation through research on ecology and biodiversity of deep-sea organisms
• Lecture:
  A New Appreciation of Ocean Life

Major Honors

2005	Grand Prix des Sciences de la Mer Albert 1er de Monaco, for "major contributions to the advancement of sciences throughout the world"
2008	National Water Quality Monitoring Council's Vision Award
2009	Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth and Environmental Science
2011	American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award
2011	International Cosmos Prize, presented by the Expo 90 Foundation to the Census of Marine Life Scientific Steering Committee

Academic Degrees

1961	Yale University, B.S. in Zoology
1967	Duke University, Ph.D. in Benthic Ecology and Ocean Biogeography

Professional Career

1967-1969	US Government Postdoctoral Grant - Fulbright-Hays Act University of Queensland, Australia
1969-1973	Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
1974-1978	Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
1978-1989	Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
1989-1996	Adjunct Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
1989-2008	Professor II and Founding Director, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2008-2012	Professor II, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Present	Professor Emeritus, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Major Publications

• Grassle, J. F., Patil, G. P. Smith, W., and Taille, C. (eds.). Ecological diversity in theory and practice. International Cooperative Publishing House, Fairland, Maryland. 365 pp. (1979)
• Grassle, J. F. In situ studies of deep-sea communities, pp. 321-332. In: J. P. Diemer, F. J. Vernberg and D. Z. Mirkes (eds.). Advanced Concepts in Ocean Measurements. Belle W. Baruch Library of Marine Science No. 10, Univ. S. Carolina Press. (1980)
• Grassle, J. F. Hydrothermal vent animals: distribution and biology. Science 229:713-717. (1985)
• Grassle, J. F. The ecology of deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities. Adv. Mar. Biol. 23:301-362. (1986)
• Grassle, J. F. and Maciolek, N. J. Deep-sea species richness: regional and local diversity estimates from quantitative bottom samples. Amer. Nat. 139(2):313-341. (1992)
• Snelgrove, P. V. R., Grassle, J. F., and Petrecca, R. F. The role of food patches in maintaining high deep-sea diversity: field experiments using hydrodynamically unbiased colonization trays. Limnol. Oceanog. 37:1543-1550. (1992)
• Grassle, J. F. The ocean biogeographic information system (OBIS): an on-line, worldwide atlas for accessing, modeling and mapping marine biological data in a multidimensional context. Oceanography 13(3):5-9. (2000)
• Zhang, Y. and Grassle, J. F. A portal for the Ocean Biogeographic
  Information System. Oceanologica Acta 25:193-197. (2003)