Lawrence R. Pomeroy

Lawrence Richards Pomeroy (June 2, 1925, Sayre, Pennsylvania – March 26, 2020, Burlington, North Carolina) was an American zoologist, ecologist, and oceanographer.

Biography His family lived in Watkins Glen, New York, until they moved in the mid-1930s to Pass-a-Grille, Florida. As a high school student at St. Petersburg High School, he wrote a nature column for the local newspaper and worked as a crew member of the commercial fishing boat Wye Goodie. At the University of Michigan he graduated in zoology with a B.S. in 1947 and an M.S. in 1948. At Rutgers University he received in 1951 a Ph.D. in marine science. His doctoral dissertation on the physiology of oysters was supervised by Harold Haley "Hal" Haskin (1915–2002). As a postdoc Pomeroy worked at New Jersey's Oyster Research Laboratory (later renamed the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory). From 1954 to 1960 he worked at the University of Georgia Marine Institute, located on Sapelo Island and founded in 1953. In 1960 he became a faculty member in the University of Georgia's zoology department and moved with his family to Athens, Georgia.

In April 1952 in New Jersey, he married Janet Klerk (1929–2009). Upon his death he was survived by his daughter, his son, and three grandchildren.

Awards and honors 1958 — Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1969 — Antarctica Service Medal from the National Science Foundation 1983–1984 — President of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography 1987 — G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography 1989 — A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences from the Royal Society of Canada 2001 — Odum Lifetime Achievement Award from the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF)

Selected publications

(over 1500 citations)

as editor