C. Hart Merriam Award

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The C. Hart Merriam Award is given annually by the American Society of Mammalogists for "outstanding research in mammalogy". [1]

The Merriam Award was established in 1974. Before 1996 the award was given for "outstanding contributions to mammalogy through research, teaching, and service". [1] The award is named in honor of C. Hart Merriam (1855–1942). He was not only a founding member of the American Society of Mammalogists and a physician with an M.D. from Columbia University, but also "naturalist, ethnologist, explorer, scholar, lecturer, author, personal friend of Presidents ..." [2]

List of recipients with their institutions
YearRecipientInstitution
1976James N. Layne Archbold Biological Station, University of Florida, and Cornell University
1977J. Knox Jones, Jr. Texas Tech University and University of Kansas
1978James S. Findley University of New Mexico
1979Terry A. Vaughan Northern Arizona University and Colorado State University
1980 Robert J. Baker Texas Tech University
1981 John F. Eisenberg University of Florida, National Zoological Park, University of Maryland, and University of British Columbia
1983 James L. Patton Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley
1985Michael H. Smith Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and University of Georgia
1986 William Z. Lidicker, Jr.  [ de ] Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley
1987 Hugh H. Genoways  [ de ] University of Nebraska State Museum, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and Texas Tech University
1988Jerry R. Choate Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Fort Hays State University
1989 James H. Brown University of New Mexico, University Arizona, University of Utah, and UCLA
1991 Timothy H. Clutton-Brock Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
1992 Guy G. Musser Department of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History
1993 Charles J. Krebs University of British Columbia
1994Gail R. Michener University of Lethbridge
1995M. Brock Fenton York University
1996 Katherine Ralls National Zoological Park
1997Kenneth B. Armitage University of Kansas
1998 Thomas H. Kunz Boston University
1999Carleton J. Phillips Texas Tech University, Illinois State University, and Hofstra University
2000 Michael A. Mares Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, and University of Pittsburgh
2001Theodore H. Fleming University of Miami
2002George O. Batzli University of Illinois
2003R. Terry Bowyer University of Alaska, Fairbanks
2004 O. James Reichman  [ de ] National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara
2005Kay E. Holekamp Michigan State University
2006 David Macdonald Oxford University
2007 Robert S. Hoffmann National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution and University of Kansas
2008Christopher Dickman University of Sydney
2009 Richard Ostfeld Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
2010Gerardo Ceballos Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México
2012 James Estes University of California, Santa Cruz and USGS
2013Rudy Boonstra University of Toronto
2014 Denise Dearing University of Utah
2015 Bruce D. Patterson  [ de ]The Field Museum of Natural History
2016Joel S. Brown University of Illinois at Chicago
2017 Mark S. Boyce University of Alberta
2018 Stan Boutin University of Alberta
2019 Hopi E. Hoekstra Harvard University
2020Jean-Michel Gaillard University of Lyon
2021Michael R. Willig University of Connecticut
2022Felisa Smith University of New Mexico
2023Larry Heaney Field Museum of Natural History
2024 Felicia Keesing Bard College

References

  1. 1 2 "Merriam Award | American Society of Mammalogists".
  2. Talbot, Z. M.; Talbot, M. W. (1942). "Obituary. C. Hart Merriam". Science. 95 (2474): 545–546. Bibcode:1942Sci....95..545T. doi:10.1126/science.95.2474.545. PMID   17790860. p. 546