Merriam Award Recipients

C. HART MERRIAM AWARD for outstanding research contributions to the science of mammalogy

• 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., Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley
• 1987—Hugh H. Genoways, 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 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. J. Reichman, 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 (retired)
• 2008—Christopher Dickman, University of Sydney
• 2009—Richard Ostfeld, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
• 2010—Gerardo Ceballos, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
• 2012—James Estes, University of California, Santa Cruz and USGS