Warfel, Herbert Elmer (1902-1981) and Lucille Gladys Talbott (1910-1985) Herbert Elmer Warfel was an internationally-known zoologist and oceanographer. He was born in 1902 in Yorktown, Indiana to William Turner Warfel and Hester Ann Myers. He lived in Winter Park, Colorado; Amherst, Massachusetts; New Hampshire; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the Philippines. He was a college professor at Massachusetts State College in Amherst teaching zoology. In 1947, he left on a 3-year oceanography expedition living in the Philippines with his family.