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History of The Herpetologists' League
Graduate Research Award

2007   No award

2006   Libby Liggins

  • Phylogeography of the Chatham Islands skink (Oligosoma nigriplantare nigriplantare)

2005   Nathan L. Windel

  • Behavioral and metabolic responses of southern red-backed salamanders to predatory stimuli: influence of body size

2004   Jennifer B. Pramuk

  • Phylogenetic relationships of South American Bufo (Anura: Bufonidae)

2003   no award

2002   Chistopher Sheil

  • Developmental morphology of turtles.

2001   Richard Lehtinen

  • Larval ecology of two phytotelmic anurans from Madagascar

2000   Kirsten M. Parris

  • Has the frog bounced back? Apparent recovery of the Cascade treefrog, (Litoria pearsoniana)

1999   Travis Ryan

  • Growth, metamorphosis, and maturation in Ambystoma talpoideum and the ecology of life cycle polymorphisms

1998   Matthew Parris

  • Interactions among parental and hybrid leopard frog larvae in experimental ponds: Implications from the coexistence of genotypes

1997   Kelly Zamudio

  • The evolution of the rock-paper-scissors game of alternative mating strategies in a lizard: A paternity analysis using nuclear microsatellites.

1996   Andrew Storfer

  • Ineffective predator avoidance behavior in a sunfish-salamander system: Gene flow as an evolutionary constraint.

1995   J. Kelly McCoy

  • Ineffective predator avoidance behavior in a sunfish-salamander system: Gene flow as an evolutionary constraint.

1994   Hinrich Kaiser

  • Systematics and biogeography of eastern Caribbean Eleutherodactylus (Anura: Leptodactylidae): Consensus from a multidisciplinary approach.

1993   Bryant W. Buchanan

  • An experimental assessment of the influence of call site availability and operational sex ratio on the reproductive behavior of male squirrel treefrogs

1992   Fredric J. Janzen

  • Experimental evidence for the adaptive significance of environmental sex determination in turtles

1991 Stephen Secor

  • Energetic correlates of foraging mode of the desert snakes, Crotalus cerastes and Masticophis flagellum.

1990 (tie)

Edmund D. Brodie, III

  • Experimental field investigations of the coral snake mimicry problem with free-ranging avian predators.

Vincent G. DeMarco

  • Embryonic development time: A new hypothesis for the evolution of reptilian viviparity

1989   Diana K. Hews

  • Allometry and growth of sexually-selected traits in Uta palmeri lizards

1988 (tie)

David R. Carrier

  • Lung ventilation of the lizard Iguana iguana

Brent D. Palmer

  • Eggshelling, albumin formation and sperm storage: Oviductal functional morphology in chelonians

1987 (tie)

Maureen A. Donnelly

  • Effects of resource addition on home range utilization in the strawberry poison-dart frog Dendrobates pumilio

James A. Schwartz

  • Multiple paternity in the snake Thamnophis sirtalis

1986   Lynette Sievert

  • Thermoregulatory behavior of collared lizards