[1] He was one of the main persons behind the establishment of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park in Key Largo, Florida and he spoke out successfully against several proposed real estate developments that might have threatened the ecology of the Florida Keys.
[3] Voss had two brothers, Frederick Jr. and Walter, both of whom were guides and captains in tuna and bill fishing tournaments throughout Florida and the Caribbean.
He was a professor at the university's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science when he retired in 1988.
Voss published over 200 items, including 73 book reviews, 16 editorials, and 124 research papers on such diverse topics as cephalopods, fishes, crustaceans, botany, zoogeography, history of oceanography, anthropology, archaeology, fisheries, and marine and deep sea biology.
[6] His son, Robert Voss, is the curator of the Department of Mammalogy on the Division of Vertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History.