2023 Tyrone Hayes. University of California, Berkeley. “Bring the noise: Chasing Atrazine’s effects in frogs across three continents, twenty years, and six generations”
2022 Edmund Brodie III, University of Virginia, ” Letting the Organism Lead – Wandering the Coevolutionary Landscape with Newts and Snakes”
2021 Robin Andrews “Fifty Years of Anole Censuses at Barro Colorado Island: Density Decline and Biodiversity”
2020 Jackie Litzgus “Chasing Catastrophes Slowly: A Career Studying Turtle Population Patterns”
2019 Tracy Langkilde “Imperfect Fixes: Costs of Adaptive Responses to Environmental Perturbations”
2018 No Award
2017 James P. Bogart “Unisexual Salamanders in the Genus Ambystoma: bending and breaking evolutionary stereotype.”
2016 Jonathan Losos, Harvard University Known knowns and unknown unknowns: herpetological progress in fits and starts
2015 Raymond D. Semlitsch, University of Missouri, remembered by James Spotila Raymond Semlitsch: Forty years of snakes and salamanders – experimental approaches to herpetology
2014 J. Whitfield Gibbons, University of Georgia and the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory What we didn’t know in 1964: Fifty years of herpetology
2013 David Sever, Southeastern Louisiana University Histo-herpetologist
2012 Laurie Vitt, University of Oklahoma Walking the natural history trail
2011 Aaron Bauer, Villanova University Hands, sands, and southern lands: Geckos in space and time
2010 Indraneil Das, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak Perceptions, use and conservation of amphibians by indigenous people worldwide
2009 Julian Lee, University of Miami From Bloomington, Indiana, to Balankanche Yucatan: Reflections of a naturalist in tropical America
2008 Patrick T. Gregory, University of Victoria Northern lights and seasonal sex: Reproductive ecology of cool-climate viviparous snakes
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, Pennsylvania 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, Duke 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, University of Miami 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
