30.8 cu. ft. (30 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (2 3x5 boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Newsletters
Manuscripts
Black-and-white negatives
Black-and-white photographs
Black-and-white transparencies
Color negatives
Color photographs
Color transparencies
Lantern slides
Audiotapes
Motion pictures (visual works)
Videotapes
Place:
South America
Colombia
Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
Bolivia
Date:
1934-2007
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of records documenting the research and professional activities of
Melbourne R. Carriker, marine malacologist. Carriker's research interests included snails,
oysters, clams, invasive species of mollusks, marine mariculture, and estuarine ecology. Much of
Carriker's research focused on South America, where he was born in Santa Marta, Colombia and
on the Chesapeake Bay, where he taught at the University of Delaware, College of Marine
Studies. Carriker also wrote several books about his father, ornithologist Melbourne Armstrong
Carriker, and their lives in Colombia and Bolivia. Materials include correspondence; research
notes; lectures; manuscripts; course materials; newsletters and conference materials from various
professional societies; lantern slides, transparencies, negatives, photographs, videotapes,
audiotapes, and film created for research purposes; transparencies from research and personal
trips, including several South American locations associated with the Carriker family; and
materials related to books written about the Carriker family.