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 Year | Recipient | Institution |
1976 | James N. Layne | Archbold Biological Station, University of Florida, and Cornell University |
1977 | J. Knox Jones, Jr. | Texas Tech University and University of Kansas |
1978 | James S. Findley | University of New Mexico |
1979 | Terry 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 |
1985 | Michael 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 |
1988 | Jerry 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 |
1994 | Gail R. Michener | University of Lethbridge |
1995 | M. Brock Fenton | York University |
1996 | Katherine Ralls | National Zoological Park |
1997 | Kenneth B. Armitage | University of Kansas |
1998 | Thomas H. Kunz | Boston University |
1999 | Carleton 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 |
2001 | Theodore H. Fleming | University of Miami |
2002 | George O. Batzli | University of Illinois |
2003 | R. Terry Bowyer | University of Alaska, Fairbanks |
2004 | O. James Reichman [de] | National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara |
2005 | Kay 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 |
2008 | Christopher Dickman | University of Sydney |
2009 | Richard Ostfeld | Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies |
2010 | Gerardo Ceballos | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México |
2012 | James Estes | University of California, Santa Cruz and USGS |
2013 | Rudy Boonstra | University of Toronto |
2014 | Denise Dearing | University of Utah |
2015 | Bruce D. Patterson [de] | The Field Museum of Natural History |
2016 | Joel 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 |
2020 | Jean-Michel Gaillard | University of Lyon |
2021 | Michael R. Willig | University of Connecticut |
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