Dr. James Merritt Collection
Scope and Contents
Dr. James F. Merritt, former Professor and Director Emeritus of the Center for Marine Science, dedicated 34 years at UNCW to conducting and facilitating research in the coastal environment. This collection includes materials related to the Marine Expo in Wilmington, N.C., an educational convention that brought together and focused on marine activities in the region. Dr. Merritt helped to organize the event and served as chairman of the first Marine Expo. The material in this collection consists of committee minutes, correspondence, photographs and articles relating the Marine Expo held in Wilmington, NC from 1985 to 1995, with emphasis on expos held during 1985-1987.
Dates
- 1984-1995
Creator
- Merritt, James F., 1944- (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research use.
Copyright Statement
Copyright retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Biographical / Historical
Dr. James F. Merritt was born in 1944 in Wake County, North Carolina. For his education, he went to East Carolina Univeristy for his bachelor and masters degrees in general biology, and earned a Ph.D. in genetics at North Carolina State University. In 1973, Merritt started at UNCW as an assistant professor of biology and marine biology and even became the chair of the Marine Biology Department from 1978 to 1988. In 1980, UNCW debuted the Graduate program of Marine Biology, one of the first for the school, that Merritt helped developed. Dr. Merritt was the chairman for the first Marine Expo in Wilmington, NC in 1985. He would go on to help organize the next two Marine Expos. He was also the director of the Center for Marine Science from 1986 to 1999. For 34 years, Merritt helped teach, lead, and conduct research for the marine biology field at UNCW. In 2007, Merritt retired from UNCW.
Extent
2 Containers (Contains 2 document boxes)
Language
English
Arrangement
In this collection, all materials will fall under the series of Marine Expo 1985, Marine Expo 1987, Marine Expo 1989, Marine Expo 1991, Marine Expo 1992, Marine Expo 1995 with each folder labeled clearly.
Processing Information
Processed by Matt Bradley in September 2022.
Creator
- Merritt, James F., 1944- (Person)
- Title
- Dr. James Merritt Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Matt Bradley
- Date
- 2022 September 28
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Randall Library Special Collections Repository