In the early 1990’s, Ned and Paul co-founded REEF (Reef Environmental Education Foundation) where he and Anna continue to serve as board members. In 2006, he was recognized by the United States Coral Reef Task Force for outstanding efforts to advance public knowledge and education through both the publication of the field guides and for founding REEF. In 2015, Anna and Ned were honored as Scuba Diving Magazine Sea Heroes for their conservation and education work.

For the past decade Anna and Ned have written the marine wildlife behavior column, Encounters, for Alert Diver magazine. Since 2004, they have served as resident naturalists at Buddy Dive in Bonaire, where they spend the month of September teaching fish identification and presenting programs about marine life behavior. Much of what they observed in Bonaire was included in their latest edition of Reef Fish Behavior: Florida, Bahamas, Caribbean, published in November 2019.