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The Asia Pacific region is not just a consumer of technology; it is the powerhouse that drives the global electronics market.
From bustling metropolises like Shanghai and Seoul to rapidly urbanizing centers in India and Southeast Asia, the region’s insatiable appetite for connected, smart, and affordable devices is fueling a massive wave of growth.
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Welcome to our group In Memory of Jelle Group! A space for us to connect and share with each other. Start by posting your thoughts, sharing media, or creating a poll.
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I cannot even remember how many years I'd already known Jelle prior to my own coming to BU from The New England Aquarium. We got to know each other a little better when I got roped into helping BU plan a new aquarium facility, partly to house Jelle's smelly catfish. By smelly I mean that he kept them due to their dependence upon olfaction as a major part of their lives. It was a major part of Jelle's life, also. Through his agency and that of our mutual colleague Rudi Strickler, I wound up teaching part time in the BUMP program in 1989. This gradually evolved into a job offer engineered largely by Jelle and our colleague Richard Primack that resulted in my swimming from Central Wharf to the MBL-Comm Ave commute in September of 1994. I covered what had been Jelle's Boston beat (teaching intro Marine BIology), freeing…
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In Autumn of 69 or spring of 70, Paul Fye hosted a reception at Meteor House to welcome WHOI’s new hires. I was one, as was Jelle, and I was thrilled to meet him and Hilde there, given that they played flute and violin, respectively. I was equally delighted to see Peter and Marie Rhines, whom I had already known, and who played guitar and violin. Things were looking up musically. However, as neophyte scientists, we three were much too busy for serious musicmaking during that first decade of work in Woods Hole and not much came of it.
My fondest memories of Jelle came in the 80s and 90s, in three varieties. First were the dinners at #10, just the two of us, talking about far reaching and personal topics too numerous to recount. Second were our interactions about BUMP’s internal workings, a favorite topic for us both. Third,…
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On Saturday, September 21, we celebrated the life of our colleague Jelle Atema, with his family, friends, former students, and members of the BU community in attendance, including Ian Davison, Rudi Strickler (a former BUMP faculty member), and the two of us. The event was held at his comfortable home just a short walk from the Woods Hole town center, which provided an ideal setting for informal conversations about Jelle.
While many of us in the BU Biology Department experienced Jelle as a marine biologist with a world-famous program in lobster sensory biology, at the memorial he was instead celebrated for his family and love of music.
During the memorial, four of his six children shared memories of Jelle’s strong influence as a father, a scientist, and a musician. His partner, Meg, described how after retirement, Jelle shared his love of music by participating in concerts and hosting musical events…
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Dear family and friends of Jelle,
My sincere condolences on the loss of your husband, father and friend and colleague.
Jelle was a classmate of mine and I received the news of his death from Koos, another classmate. In 2018 we had a reunion in Utrecht with our biology year. Jelle seemed so healthy and bright as if he would live to be 100 years old. I have fond memories of him. I took photos of this reunion and I am placing them in the photogalley.
Kind regards,
Truus Stevens
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I was Jelle’s last graduate student. He was my advisor, mentor, collaborator and friend, a very important person in my life and I will always be grateful to him.
I’ve had varied interests from a young age, but when I decided in middle age that I was ready to transition from a long career as a theatre set designer/professor of design to become a fish biologist, nearly everybody thought I was out of my mind. Jelle was one of the few people I approached with this idea who seemed to truly understand the connection I felt between the art I was doing and my intense desire to pursue biology. He not only took me seriously, but he helped me to develop a road map for how I could make that crazy dream a reality, explaining that it would be a long and difficult road but would be possible if I…
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I am forever grateful to Jelle for being such an amazing colleague. Prior to joining the BU faculty, I worked at the New England Aquarium as a research scientist, but taught for BUMP as an outside contractor. I was 8 months pregnant when I taught my first BUMP class, and Jelle really looked out for me, helping me to find a temporary office in the Biology department so that I had a place to put my things and rest whenever possible as I waddled through my class. I will also forever remember coming to my first BUMP faculty meeting after having a baby - Jelle encouraged me to bring my baby daughter with me, which I did, and he normalized the idea that it was not only okay, but encouraged (!!) to bring a baby to a faculty meeting (very different from my other experiences at the time). He was…
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In 1989 I was floundering my way through a master’s degree and Jelle agreed to let me try my math skills on his lobsters. Then again in 1996, he came through with another project combining my love for fluid mechanics, math skills with his lobsters and that got me through a PhD. I am sure that neither of us knew that he was encouraging me toward a lifelong career in science and mathematics. From Jelle, I learned to write papers and proposals and I will always be grateful. He was charming, intelligent and resourceful. I am glad to have known him.