Tyler Carrier: Invertebrate investigator

UMaine Alert

Posted: April 19, 2024 - 1:32 PM

At approximately 9:24 a.m. on Friday, April 19, a University of Maine graduate student was struck by a university vehicle on Long Road at the University of Maine campus in Orono. The student reports that they are at a local hospital with minor injuries.

Emergency services, including the Orono Fire Department, University Volunteer Ambulance Corps, University of Maine Police Department, Orono Police Department and Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene.

The university vehicle involved in the incident was a Chevrolet Express van. It was being operated by a university employee.

Counseling services and support are available for students, faculty or staff who may have been affected. The Counseling Center can be reached at 207-581-1392 and the Dean of Students Office can be reached at 207-581-1406.

The scene has been cleared and Long Road is now accessible. An investigation is being conducted by the University of Maine Police Department with assistance from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office Crash Reconstruction Unit. Any witnesses to the incident are encouraged to contact Lt. Noel Santiago at noel.santiago@maine.edu.

November 3, 2015 Alumni, College News, Undergraduate students

After Tyler Carrier took a course focused on invertebrates — an animal that lacks a backbone — during his first-year at the University of Maine, he was hooked.

Carrier graduated from UMaine in May 2015 with a B.S in marine sciences. His honors thesis explored the interactions between sea urchins and alexandrium — a species that produces toxins that induce paralytic shellfish poisoning. His findings were published in the journal Biological Bulletin last June.

Hailing from Providence, Rhode Island, Carrier was one of 10 students in the state to receive the Maine Sea Grant Undergraduate Scholarship in 2014 and was also awarded the Sea Grant Program Development funds.

He is now a M.S candidate in biology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he is working as a graduate research assistant in professor Adam Reitzel’s laboratory.

“The University of Maine, its faculty and staff, and vigorous marine sciences program gave me a disciplined freedom to explore— intellectually and physically— the marine realm, what it has to offer, and where my niche may be,” said Carrier.

Maine Sea Grant’s full profile is available online.