The Crustacean Society Award for Excellence in Research

Soon after its founding, The Crustacean Society established its Award for Research Excellence.  The award is intended to honor outstanding contributions towards the  furthering of carcinology as a science.  The year, the honoree, and the reason for the award being bestowed are provided here along with a reference to a printed version (should one exist).

1982, Horton H. Hobbs, Jr., National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, for his contributions to knowledge of the freshwater decapods [JCB 3(3): 491].

1985, Fenner A. Chace, Jr., National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, for his contributions to knowledge of marine decapods, especially caridean shrimp [JCB 6(3): i-vi].

1987, Dorothy E. Bliss, American Museum of Natural History, New York, for her contributions to knowledge of the biology and physiology of decapods, especially land crabs [JCB 8(4): 706-709].

1989, Talbot H. Waterman, Yale University, New Haven, for his contributions to the knowledge of physiology and vision of crustaceans [JCB 10(2): 372].

1990, Donald Anderson, University of Sydney, for his contributions to cirripede biology, and understanding of early arthropod ontogeny.

1993, Dorothy M. Skinner, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Tennessee, for her contributions to molecular approaches to problems of growth, development, regeneration in crustaceans, and for mentoring new trainees in the field. [JCB 14(4): 803-804].

1993, Lipke B. Holthuis, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, for his contributions to the taxonomy and nomenclature of crustaceans, especially decapods and stomatopods. [JCB 14(4): 805-806].

1995, William A. Newman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, for his contributions to knowledge of cirripedes and crustacean biogeography [JCB 16(4): 814-816].

1997, Robert R. Hessler, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, for his contributions to crustacean morphology, phylogeny, and biogeography in particular cephalocarids and mystacocarids [JCB 17(2): 374-375].

1997, Austin Beatty Williams, Systematics Laboratory, National Marine Fisheries Service, Washington, for his leadership in studies of the systematics of eastern American decapods. [JCB 18(3): 619-620].

1998, Geoffrey A. Boxshall, Natural History Museum, London, for his activities in the forefront of research on Copepoda and other crustacean groups such as Tantulocarida and Branchiura. [JCB 19(2): 432-433]

1999, Raymond B. Manning, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, for his contributions furthering the science of carcinology as well as the systematics of stomatopods and decapods. [JCB 20(suppl. 2): ii-xi].

2000, Arthur Humes, Boston University Marine Program, Woods Hole, (posthumously) for his contributions towards furthering crustacean studies. [Ecdysiast 19(1): 3].

2000, Milton F. Fingerman, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, for his research in the field of crustacean endocrinology [Ecdysiast 19(1): 3-4].

2001, Alain G. P. Crosnier, MusÈum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, for his leadership in advancing knowledge of Indo-Pacific crustaceans especially his initiation of the MUSORSTOM program [JCB 22(1): 210-212].

2005, Frederick R. Schram, University of Amsterdam, for his diverse publications on almost all groups of crustaceans, his books, his promotion of the uses of cladistic methods in crustacean phylogeny, and his role as a mentor [JCB 26(1): 99-101].

2005, J. Stanley Cobb, University of Rhode Island, for advancing the study of lobster biology [JCB 26(4): 543-544].

 2007, Jacques Forest, MusÈum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, for his efforts in documenting the biodiversity of decapods and his editorial efforts producing the TraitÈ de Zoologie for Crustacea [JCB 28(2)].

 2007, Liu Riu-yu, Insititute of Oceanology, Qiingdao, People's Republic of China, for his contributions towards documenting the biodiversity of the crustaceans of China, advancing conservation of aquaculture of crustaceans, and foundation of the Crustacean Society of China [JCB 28(3)].

 2008, Daniéle Guinot, MusÈum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, for her efforts at promoting revolutionary insights into the taxonomy and evolution of Brachyura [JCB 28(4)].