I am a new student at Baruch, so I have not quite gotten to know my new professors backgrounds just yet. However at the college I attended before this, I had a biology professor who was known to be very credible. Professor Merit had done research at for various labs and has published work in different books.
I figured out why we couldn’t find your professor when we were searching for him: we had the name misspelled. It’s “Merritt,” not “Merit.” I figured this out by going to the HCC website and using the faculty search. When “merit” failed, I tried the more common spelling of that last name, “merritt.” That yielded a search result that gave his full name, what location he was at, and what department: Richard G. Merritt, Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, Northwest College. So then I went to the website for Northwest College and found this profile page about him. That page offers a link to his curriculum vitae, which you can download as a Word document and read all about his publications.