Background
Carriker, Melbourne Romaine was born on February 25, 1915 in Santa Marta, Colombia. Son of Melbourne Armstrong Junior Carriker and Carmela Myrtle Flye.
Carriker, Melbourne Romaine was born on February 25, 1915 in Santa Marta, Colombia. Son of Melbourne Armstrong Junior Carriker and Carmela Myrtle Flye.
Bachelor, Rutgers University, 1939. Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, Madison, 1943. Degree of science (honorary), Beloit College, Wisconsin, 1968.
From instructor to assistant professor zoology Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1946—1954. Associate professor zoology University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1954—1961. Supervisory fishery research biologist, chief shellfish mortality program Biological Laboratory United States Bureau Commercial Fisheries, Oxford, 1961—1962.
Director systematics-ecology program Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1962—1972, independent investigator, 1972—1973. Professor marine studies University Delaware, Lewes, 1973—1985, professor emeritus, from 1985. Numerous adjunct professorships, research fellowships in field.
Lieutenant(junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1945, PTO.
President Partners of the Americas, Delaware-Panama. Member of American Malacological Society (president 1985-1987), Atlantic Estuarine Research Society 1961-1962, National Shellfisheries Association 1955-1957.
Married Meriel Roosevelt McAllister, October 17, 1943. Children: Eric Berkeley, Bruce Leaycraft, Neal Armstrong, Robert Romaine.