# C. Hart Merriam Award

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 ..."
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. [de] | Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1987 | Hugh H. Genoways [de] | 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 [de] | 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 [de] | 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 |