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".

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 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
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
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

References

  1. ^ a b "Merriam Award | American Society of Mammalogists".
  2. PMID 17790860. p. 546
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