The C. Hart Merriam Award is given annually by the American Society of Mammalogists for "outstanding research in mammalogy".
The Merriam Award was established in 1974. Before 1996 the award was given for "outstanding contributions to mammalogy through research, teaching, and service". 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 ..." p. 546
+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 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley 1987 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 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 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 Connecticut2022Felisa SmithUniversity of New Mexico2023Larry HeaneyField Museum of Natural History2024Felicia KeesingBard College
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