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History of the Distinguished Herpetologist Lecture Series

2007   Marvalee H. Wake, University of California at Berkeley

  • Eye of newt and toe of frog: Herpetology in 21st century science

2006   Carl Gerhardt, University of Missouri

  • Evolution and mechanisms of acoustic communication in frogs and toads

2005   Roy McDiarmid, Smithsonian Institution

  • Mystery, motivation, and science: A herpetologist's perspective

2004   Eric R. Pianka, University of Texas

  • Can we read the vanishing book of life?

2003   William Duellman, University of Kansas

  • In search of El Dorado: The neotropical herpetofauna

2002   George R. Zug, Smithsonian Institution

  • In and across the deep blue sea: Ages of seaturtles & dispersal of Oceania lizards

2001   William R. Branch, Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa

  • Herps and hopes: Africa, a new millennium

2000   Linda Trueb, University of Kansas

  • Frogs, fossils and phylogeny: a perspective on the last 140 million years and prospectus for the future

1999   Jonathan Campbell, University of Texas at Arlington

  • Herpetologist in the mist: Life among Guerillas

1998   Sharon B. Emerson, University of Utah

  • The evolution of morphological novelties

1997   Martha L. Crump, Northern Arizona University

  • Frogs, unpredictability, flexibility and the future

1996   Harry W. Greene, University of California at Berkeley

  • Historical legacies and contemporary snake biology

1995   Michael J. Ryan, University of Texas

  • Sexual selection and commnunication in the tungara frog

1994   Richard Shine, University of Sydney

  • A new hypothesis for the evolution of viviparity in reptiles

1993    Linda R. Maxon, Pennsylvanian State University

  • Molecular insights into Caribbean and Mediterranean biogeography

1992    Stevan J. Arnold, University of Chicago

  • Comparative quantitative genetics: A case study with gartersnakes

1991    Raymond B. Huey, University of Washington

  • Evolution of performance: Reptiles and amphibians as models for general biological questions

1990    Henry M. Wilbur, Tulane University

  • Salient features of amphibian populations

1989    no award

1988    Ilya S. Darevsky, Academy of Sciences of the USSR

  • Recent research in parthenogenesis in lizards

1987    Henry S. Fitch, University of Kansas

1986    Jay M. Savage, Duke University

  • Searching for the Golden Frog

1985    Carl Gans, University of Michigan

  • Locomotion of Limbless Vertebrates: Pattern and Evolution

1984    David B. Wake, University of California at Berkeley

  • Species, genes and morphology – a perspective on evolution in salamanders

1983    Roger Conant, University of New Mexico

1982    Thomas Uzzell, Jr.

  • In praise of common widespread frogs

1981    Ernest E. Williams

  • The anoline radiation: Unity and variation