C. Hart Merriam Award

Annual award in biology

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

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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
2022  | Felisa Smith  | University of New Mexico
2023  | Larry Heaney  | Field Museum of Natural History
2024  | Felicia Keesing | Bard College

## References

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1. ^ a b "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 17790860.545-546&rft.date=1942&rft_id=info:pmid/17790860&rft_id=info:doi/10.1126/science.95.2474.545&rft_id=info:bibcode/1942Sci....95..545T&rft.aulast=Talbot&rft.aufirst=Z.+M.&rft.au=Talbot,+M.+W.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:C.+Hart+Merriam+Award" class="Z3988"> p. 546