Carr, Archie, 1909-1987

LC control no.	n 79117249
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Carr, Archie, 1909-1987 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Carr, Archie Fairly, 1909-1987
Birth date	1909-06-19
Death date	1987-05-21
Field of activity	Herpetology Ecology Conservation biology Sea turtles
Affiliation	University of Florida
Profession or occupation	Herpetologists Ecologists Conservationists Authors
Found in	His A contribution to the herpetology of Florida, 1940. His The reptiles, c1980: t.p. (Archie Carr) Grapevine, v. 44, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1987): p. 4 (d. 5/21/87) His Handbook of turtles, 1995: CIP t.p. (Archie Carr) data sht. (b. 06-16-09) Wikipedia website, April 8, 2014 (Archie Fairly Carr, Jr., June 16, 1909 - May 21, 1987, American herpetologist, ecologist, and conservationist, known for bringing attention to the world's declining sea turtle population due to over-exploitation and loss of safe habitat) Society for Conservation Biology web site, April 9, 2020: (Archie Carr ; conservation biologist ; died at his home on Wewa Pond near the town of Micanopy, Florida, on May 21 1987 ; world's leading authority on sea turtles, tropical field ecologist, writer for audiences of both scientific and popular literature ; Archie Fairly Carr Jr., born on June 16, 1909 in Mobile Alabama) <https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1523-1739.1987.tb00026.x> Wikipedia web site, April 9, 2020: (He studied zoology at the University of Florida, eventually specializing in herpetology. He further refined that interest to the study of turtles and eventually became one of the world's foremost authorities on sea turtles. From UF, he received bachelor's degree in 1932, M.S. in 1934, and Ph.D. in 1937. He started out as a high school science teacher before becoming a college professor. Carr became a bit of a legend at the University of Florida)
Associated language	eng