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Rudy and Amelie Scheltema with Oceanus in background

Rudy and Amelie Scheltema with Oceanus in background
Rudy and Amelie Scheltema with Oceanus in background
Rudy and Amelie Scheltema with Oceanus in background
Rudy and Amelie Scheltema with Oceanus in background
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Kleindinst, Thomas N.
Rudy and Amelie Scheltema with Oceanus in background
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04/26/2007
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Science and a full life go hand-in-hand for Rudolf Scheltema and Amelie Scheltema, researchers in the WHOI Biology Department who together have devoted over a century to understanding the invertebrate animals that live on the bottom of the ocean. Their specialties differ: Rudi studies "long-distance," passively drifting larvae of bottom-living animals and their significance for the distribution of the adult bottom-dwellers, even across ocean basins. Ami studies fossil- and living deep sea mollusks called aplacophorans. Their work has taken them to far-flung and often separate parts of the world. But they share a deep calling for marine biology, a passionate interest in justice and people around the world, and a 53-year marriage. As Rudi has said, "Science is slow, so live long."
Photo by Tom Kleindinst
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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