United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794Carpenter, RichardUniversity of Georgia. Libraries. Department of Archives & Records Management1985-04-25Related material in this repository: Institute of Ecology records, UA07-066 and the Ecological Society of America records, UA97-061.Interviewed by Josephine Doherty.Richard Carpenter discusses the Institute of Ecology, including its origins, its approaches to research, its relationship with colleges and universities, its structural and funding challenges, and its demise.Dr. Richard J. Carpenter was well known for his teaching, for his notable work in ecology, and for his long list of publications in his field. After graduating from the University of Illinois in 1932 with honors in zoology, Carpenter attended the University of Oklahoma, taking a M.S. degree in zoology and botany in 1934. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Lincoln College, Oxford for the next three years and received the Biological Science degree. In 1939, he completed his thesis on the ecology of the grassland biome and was awarded his doctorate at the University of Oklahoma. In his Biology courses at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, he stressed the position of man as an organism in a living environment of other organisms, plants and animals, together with a study of their ecological relationships and the relations of their physical environment.audio/mpegenghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Finding aid: http://purl.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/UA97-066_0003-1/findingaidInstitute of EcologyInstitute of Ecology records. Richard Carpenter interview, 1985 April 25.Sound