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. | 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 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 | 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 | 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 |
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