The F. E. J. Fry Medal is an annual award for zoology given by the Canadian Society of Zoologists. [1]
It is presented to "the Canadian zoologist who has made an outstanding contribution to knowledge and understanding of an area in zoology". [2] The recipient is expected to give a lecture to the next annual conference.
The award was established in 1974 in honour of Frederick E.J. Fry, the Canadian ichthyologist and aquatic ecologist, in recognition of his contribution to science in Canada. [3] [4]
Year | Recipient | Lecture title |
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2019 | Robert Shadwick, University of British Columbia [5] | Adventures in zoology with rorqual whales. |
2018 | Jean-Guy J. Godin, Carleton University | Sexual selection and male mate choice: insights from a small tropical fish |
2017 | Céline Audet, Université du Québec à Rimouski | Ecophysiology, a unique and exciting—but challenging—way to study adaptations of fishes to their environment. |
2016 | Brock Fenton, University of Western Ontario | The endless allure of bats. |
2015 | Patricia Wright, University of Guelph | Living on the edge – The physiology of amphibious fish in and out of water. |
2014 | Glen Van Der Kraak, University of Guelph | The sex lives of fish: Science, policy and beyond. |
2013 | Miodrag Belosevic, University of Alberta | Life is PIE. |
2012 | Steve Perry, University of Ottawa | Reelin’ in the Years: A Retrospective Look at Fish Ionic Regulation. |
2011 | Kenneth Storey, Carleton University | Exploring biochemical adaptations: synthetic intuition on a family farm. |
2010 | Joseph S. Nelson, University of Alberta | From Kokanee to Suckers to Sticklebacks to classifying the world of fishes. |
2009 | Anthony Farrell, University of British Columbia | |
2008 | Jeremy N. McNeil, University of Western Ontario | |
2007 | Nancy M. Sherwood, University of Victoria | The evolution of brain hormones that control reproduction: Genomics to the rescue. |
2006 | Richard E. Peter, University of Alberta | Neuroendocrine control systems in the goldfish. |
2005 | John Youson, University of Toronto, Scarborough | A life of research with fishes of ancient lineage. |
2004 | Thomas W. Moon, University of Ottawa | Fish metabolism: the good, the bad and the ugly. |
2003 | William K. Milsom, University of British Columbia | Adaptive trends in respiratory control: A comparative perspective. |
2002 | Robert G. Boutilier, Cambridge University | Mechanisms of cell survival in hypoxia and hypothermia. |
2001 | Frederick William Henry Beamish, Burapha University | Axioms and anecdotes of a zoologist. |
2000 | John Philips, University of British Columbia | Pumps, Peptides and Pests. |
1999 | Chris M. Wood, McMaster University | Physiology of The Lake Magadi Tilapia, a fish adapted to one of the most extreme aquatic environments on Earth. |
1998 | Geoffrey J. Eales, University of Manitoba [6] | Thyroxine – hormone or vitamin? |
1997 | Harold Atwood, Toronto | Adaptation in the nervous system. |
1996 | Charles Krebs, University of British Columbia | Vertebrate community dynamics in the Yukon boreal forest. |
1995 | Peter Hochachka, University of British Columbia | Regulated metabolic suppression in surviving oxygen lack: a conceptual mirror to Fry’s “scope for activity”. |
1994 | Brian K. Hall, Dalhousie University | Development and evolution of the vertebrate skeleton. |
1993 | David Randall, University of British Columbia | Fish gas transfer: conflicts and compromise in design. |
1992 | Dave R. Jones, University of British Columbia | Cardiovascular dynamics of the alligator. |
1991 | Roger Downer, University of Waterloo | Exciting insects and other biological diversions. |
1990 | William C. Leggett, McGill University | Understanding variations in fish distribution and abundance; is the answer blowing in the wind? |
1989 | George Owen Mackie, University of Victoria | Aggregates or integrates? Aspects of communication in animal communities. |
1988 | Dennis Chitty, University of British Columbia | Beautiful hypotheses and ugly facts. |
1987 | Kenneth G. Davey, York University | Blood, guts, sex and affairs of the heart in insects. |
1986 | D. R. Idler, Memorial University of Newfoundland | Fish hormones: my personal experiences. |
1985 | J. R. Brett, Pacific Biological Station [7] | Production energetics of a population of sockeye salmon, Onchorhynchus nerka. |
1984 | no award | |
1983 | William Edward Ricker, Pacific Biological Station | How to draw a straight line. [8] |
1982 | F. J. Rigler, University of Toronto | No lecture because of illness |
1981 | Keith Ronald, University of Guelph | Life and death of a seal. |
1980 | D. M. Ross. University of Alberta | Illusion and reality in comparative physiology. |
1979 | Maxwell J. Dunbar, McGill University | The blunting of Occam’s razor, or to hell with parsimony. |
1978 | Peter Anthony Larkin, University of British Columbia | Maybe you can’t get there from here: A foreshortened history of research in relation to management of Pacific salmon. |
1977 | Helen I. Battle, University of Western Ontario | A saga of zoology in Canada. |
1976 | Ian McTaggart-Cowan, University of British Columbia | The sociology of carnivores related to their use of resources. |
1975 | F. R. Hayes, Dalhousie University | Quantitative and aesthetic factors in the definition of an ideal environment. |
1974 | William S. Hoar, University of British Columbia [9] | Smolt transformation: evolution, behavior and physiology. |
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