Thinking of Barry on his birthday and all year as I am amazed at the scientific legacy he is leaving.

Barry's birthday - he would have been 80 today! Time goes on.

In this year from his passing, I am remembering Barry and his legacy. Ev, Aaron, and Jared you are also on my thoughts.

It has been two years now since he has gone, but i"ll always treasure the wonderful years we had together.

We miss him, Ev... as we all know you do. I hope you have a peaceful day and find solace in all the memories.

It's nice to be reminded of Barry's birthday... peace to you Ev...and to Barry as well. I still love that photo of him reclining in a field of poppies. It seems so fitting.

It has been a year already. Hard to fathom. In Jewish tradition I will light a Yarhzeit candle in his memory. Never forgotten.

Barry's birthday today. First birthday without him. Remembering him always.

My fondest memories of Barry were from Sapelo where we shared time as graduate students. His cubicle was next to mine. We used each other as sounding boards for science, life and everything in between. A process-oriented approach to microbial ecology dominated our science, and we valued each other's perspectives and ideas.  We were both left much to our own on the island. Barry's critical mind and willingness to engage made his presence so important to me. I'm sorry we largely lost touch once we lived on opposite coasts.

I just learned of Barry's passing. What a loss for plankton ecology and humanity. Barry was such an amazing, kind and warm person, outstanding and generous scientist. I remember my first interaction with him (he had to leave suddently because there were termite issues at his house) and the last (a very generous explanation of his thoughts on proteorhodopsin and research ideas) and the many times in between. Barry is leaving a true legacy and will be sorely missed.

So sorry to hear of Barry's passing today. I was in grad school with him from 1972 to 74 and enjoyed knowing him. We would all get together on Friday nights to play basketball, then adjourn to someone's home for a good time. He had a great sense of humor and we all had a great time together.

I enjoyed teaching with both Ev and Barry Sherr at CEOAS prior to my departure to take a position as the Executive Secretary of PICES in Sidney, Canada. I have recently retired from PICES and am currently living in the Eugene area. Evelyn and Barry were wonderful teachers and good friends. I only today learned that Barry had passed away in May 2021. Barry was a wonderful character and he will be sorely missed by his friends and family. 

I just learned yesterday the sad news about Barry.  Such a fascinating life and an unusual route from New York to Oregon via Kansas and Sapelo Island, a man to be remembered and cherished.

In the summer of 1987 I attended the ASLO meeting in Madison, Wisconsin. The University was my alma mater since I had graduated in 1981. I met Tom Berman and I commented that I was going to Sapelo Island for a sabbatical. His reaction was certainly peculiar. He said “It is a strange place” and he repeated this sentence several times not being able to add anything else. So, when I moved to Georgia I was full of expectations. My wife Cristina stayed at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in Athens, and borrowing a Wolksvagen from a friend I drove towards the coast. My plan was to learn microautoradiography from Bob Fallon. But he had just left Sapelo. So, I was welcomed by Steve Newell and the Sherr’s. In effect, Sapelo was a strange place. The fauna inside my apartment was as rich and diverse as outside. In particular, every evening I had a crusade against the palmetto bugs. I became very skillful at hitting them with a broom. I would also spry the door and window panes with insecticide. The next morning I would collect a crop of Palmeto bug corpses all over the apartment.

Well, I had to teach myself microautoradigraphy. But Steve and the Sherr’s were fundamental in my stay being fruitful. Barry appeared pretty soon in my office proposing a collaboration. He and Ev would measure protist feeding on bacteria using their recently developed epifluorescence technique and I could measure bacterial production with thymidine so we could compare both. Of course, being alone in an island where the only possible entertainment was to torture the alligators (Barry said), this collaboration was a most welcome suggestion. It was a lot of fun to share samplings around the island, experiments and discussions.

Then, my wife Cristina came to the island for the last month of my stay. Our relationship with the Sherr’s deepened. It was warm and interesting. Barry had a special sense of humor, full of irony, that both Cristina and I enjoyed thoroughly. He had an apparently quite critical and controversial attitude, but actually he was endearing. Our conversations were always interesting. None of the politically correct garbage. We talked about science and about Israel, about Sapelo and Spain. There was always a stimulating comment, an original point of view, something to ponder more carefully. In short, if our stay in Sapelo was a success, both scientifically and in a human sense, it was in a great proportion due to Barry an Ev.

We saw each other more times, usually at meetings, but the intense relationship of those months unfortunately did not have another chance. Through the years I have always admired the relationship between Ev and Barry. I believe they were the epitome of what a human couple team means. Cristina and I have tried to follow their example in our relationship all these years. So, given that we all have to die, doing so after a life full of professional achievements and doing so with your life partner at your side, I think is the kind of death I would like to have. Barry, rest in peace.

This is a great lost. Barry’s sense of humor and thoughtful comments are unique characteristics to remind. My time at Sapelo and Corvallis was inspiring and solidly built my scientific training. I am very thankful and he will always warmly remain in my mind.

As one of few of Barry's offspring, scientifically (and philosophically) speaking I will miss him, and be forever grateful for his kindness and guidance. Moving from Brazil at 22 in a pre-internet age I was received by Barry (and Ev) almost as a son, and through my entire time in Corvallis and layer I always felt they were looking after me. I will always remember Barry by his good humor, his enormous heart and generosity and his integrity. I owe much of how I am both as a person and a scientist, and I hope I made him proud.

Ev,

Thank you so much for all the interesting and revealing stories about Barry and your life with him---his growing up in New York, college in Kansas, interesting times spent on Sapelo Island and in Israel and people I have also crossed paths with, Marcelino Suzuki for example and Igor Melnikov. I recall reading a paper you both had written about stable isotopes when I was a graduate student in the 1980s, so it was quite meaningful to me to have the chance to work with you professionally 20 years later during the Shelf-Basin Interactions program in the Arctic. I recall at the time we didn't know for sure what we would be able to do with so many scientists aboard the then-new icebreaker Healy. It was only through the efforts of everyone involved including you and Barry and the Coast Guard that so much was accomplished in that program and also the Bering Sea Project in which we all participated. These programs remain excellent examples of scientists working together to get at the serious problems we face with climate change in the Arctic. Thank you again and may peace be with you at this time when we remember Barry's impact and life.

We will miss Barry and always remember his humor. He looked at things deeply and thoughtfully. He was a careful and perceptive scientist whose insights had a great value. 

Ev,

I am thinking about you and sending love.

Among my treasured memories are the times spent with you and Barry, especially the years on Sapelo. The antics, fellowship, trips-so many wonderful times!

Peace to you and the boys in this difficult time....

Lorene Townsend Howard

Yes, Barry... you will be forever missed. Neither you nor Ev will be forgotten. You created a marvelous life together personally and professionally. What you accomplished with family, friends and science lives on. Peace.