{"id":936,"date":"2011-08-12T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T18:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=936"},"modified":"2017-02-15T15:42:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T22:42:26","slug":"carr-archie-fairly-1909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=936","title":{"rendered":"CARR, ARCHIE FAIRLY, 1909-1987."},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Herpetologist, ecologist, college professor. \u00a0Born– June 16, 1909, Mobile. Parents–Archibald and Louise Deadrick\u00a0 Carr. Married–Marjorie Harris, 1937.\u00a0 Children–five. Education– University of Florida, B.S., 1933, M.S., 1934, Ph.D., 1937. Associate of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1937-43. Taught biology at the University of Florida after 1933.\u00a0Principal investigator, National Science Foundation marine turtle migration project, 1955-87.\u00a0 Founder of the\u00a0Caribbean Conservation Corporation, 1959 and the Sea Turtle Conservancy.\u00a0 The\u00a0foremost authority of his time\u00a0on the sea turtle;\u00a0 credited with helping save the species from extinction.\u00a0\u00a0Wrote numerous\u00a0articles in scientific journal and participated in numerous scientific expeditions.\u00a0Member American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists; American Society of Naturalists; Smithsonian Associates; Florida Academy of Science. Awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliott Medal\u00a0by the National Academy of Science, 1955; John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, 1956; O. Henry Award for best American short stories, 1956; Gold Medal from the World Wildlife Fund, 1973; and Edward W. Browning Award, 1975.\u00a0 The Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge in Melbourne, Florida, and the Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research at the University of Florida are named in his honor.\u00a0Died May 21, 1987.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

American Men and Women of Science, 1979.<\/p>\n

contemporary authors online<\/p>\n

Davis, Frederick Rowe.\u00a0 The Man Who Saved Sea Turtles; Archie Carr and the Origins of Conservation Biology.\u00a0 Oxford University Press, 2007.<\/p>\n

Sea Turtle Conservancy website.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia.<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Africa. Westport, Conn.; H. S. Stuttman, 1980.<\/p>\n

A Contribution to the Herpetology of Florida. Gainesville, Fla; University of Florida, 1940.<\/p>\n

The Everglades. Chicago; Time-Life Books, 1973.<\/p>\n

The Green Turtle in the Caribbean Sea. New York; American Museum of Natural History, 1978.<\/p>\n

Guideposts of Animal Navigation. Boston; Heath, 1962.<\/p>\n

Handbook of Turtles; the Turtles of the United States, Canada, and Baja, California. Ithaca, New York; Comstock, 1952.<\/p>\n

High Jungles and Low. Gainesville, Fla.; University of Florida Press, 1953.<\/p>\n

The Land and Wildlife of Africa. Chicago; Time, 1964.<\/p>\n

A Naturalist in Florida: A Celebration of Eden.\u00a0 Yale University Press, 1994.<\/p>\n

Outline for a Classification of Animal Habitats in Honduras. New York; American Museum of Natural History, 1950.<\/p>\n

The Reptiles. Chicago; Time, 1963.<\/p>\n

So Excellent a Fishe. Garden City, N.Y.; Natural History Press, 1967.<\/p>\n

The Turtle, A Natural History of the Turtle. London; Cassell, 1968.<\/p>\n

Ulendo. New York; Knopf, 1964.<\/p>\n

The Windward Road. New York; Knopf, 1956.<\/p>\n

Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Ecology and Migration of Sea Turtles; the West Caribbean Green Turtle Colony. New York; American Museum of Natural History, 1978.<\/p>\n

The Green Turtle in the Gulf of Aden and the Seychelles Islands.\u00a0 Amsterdam:\u00a0 North Holland Publishing, 1970.<\/p>\n

Guide to the Reptiles, Amphibians, and Freshwater Fishes of Florida.\u00a0 University of Florida Press, 1955.<\/p>\n

Questions and Answers on Sea Turtle Conservation. Tallahassee, Fla.; The Caribbean Conservation Corporation, 1975.<\/p>\n

Surveys of Sea Turtle Populations and Habitats in the Western Atlantic. Panama City, Fla.; U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1982.<\/p>\n

Turtle Farming Project in Northern Austalia. Canberra; Australian Government Publishing Service, 1973.<\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

A large collection of the papers of Archie Fairly Carr is held by the Special and Area Collections Department of the Smathers Library System at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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