Smith receives prestigious Merriam award
July 29, 2022
In recognition of her outstanding research in Mammalogy over a period of at least 10 years, professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico Felisa Smith has received the 2022 C. Hart Merriam Award from the American Society of Mammalogists. Smith, professor at The University of New Mexico, is an expert on animal body size and the constraints on it.
Merriam served as the first president of the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM). He was also the first chief of the Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy of the United States Department of Agriculture, the precursor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and a founding member of the American Ornithologists' Union, the National Geographic Society, and the American Society of Mammalogists. He is considered the father of mammalogy.
In addition to being the president-elect of the ASM, Smith is the president of the International Biogeography Society, member of the board of directors for the International Federation of Mammologists, and a Fellow of the Paleontological Society.
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