Lawrence M. Page
Lawrence M. Page | |
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Born | |
Awards | Fellow, AAAS (2019) Fellow, AFS (2018) Fulbright Scholar (2020) |
Academic background | |
Education | Illinois State University (BS) University of Illinois (MS, PhD) |
Doctoral advisor | Phil Smith[1] |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Ichthyology |
Institutions | University of Florida Illinois Natural History Survey Florida Museum of Natural History |
Main interests | Taxonomy, evolution, and ecology of freshwater fishes.[2] |
Website | www |
Lawrence M. Page (born April 17, 1944) is an American ichthyologist.[3] He is a principal scientist emeritus at the Illinois Natural History Survey, an affiliate professor at the University of Florida, and the Curator of Fishes at the Florida Museum of Natural History.[4] He also served as the project director for iDigBio from 2011 to 2019.[5][2] Over the course of his career he has published over 200 papers and nine books.[6]
Early life and education
Page was born in Fairbury, Illinois and grew up in Lexington.[3][1] After developing an childhood interest in identifying fish he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Illinois State University in 1966.[7][3][2] He graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a Master of Science in Zoology in 1968 and a PhD in Zoology in 1972.[1][2]
Career
After finishing graduate school, Page joined the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) to work on statewide surveys of the fish species present in Illinois.[1] He was employeed as a fish biologist for architectural engineering firm Sargent & Lundy in 1972 and a consultant for the Missouri Botanical Garden from 1973 to 1976.[3] He served as an associate ichthyologist at the University of Kansas from 1979 to 1995. He became a full professor at the University of Illinois in 1980.[3][2]
In 1989 Page became the director of the INHS, a position he held until 1996. He became a principal scientist emeritus at the INHS in 2001.[2] His work at the INHS cataloguing extant and extirpated fish species within Illinois resulted in the publication of An Atlas of Illinois Fishes in 2022.[1]
In 2005 Page became the Curator of Fishes at the Florida Museum of Natural History, where he continues to work.[4] He served as the director of iDigBio, a National Science Foundation specimen curation project, from 2011 to 2019.[1][2]
Awards and recognition
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2019)[5]
- Fellow, American Fisheries Society (2018)[8]
- Fulbright award for the study of freshwater fish in Thailand (2020)[9]
- Robert K. Johnson Award, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (2014)[10]
- Gibbs Award, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists[11]
Bibliography
- Page, Lawrence (1 January 1983). Handbook of Darters. TFH Publications. ISBN 978-0876668047.
- Lindquist, David; Page, Lawrence (30 September 1984). Environmental biology of darters. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes. Springer. ISBN 978-9061935063.
- Page, Lawrence (30 September 1985). The Crayfishes and Shrimps (Decapoda) of Illinois. Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin. doi:10.21900/j.inhs.v33.140.
- Lawrence, Page; Burr, Brooks (1 January 1991). A Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes: North America, North of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0395910917.
- Lawrence, Page; Burr, Brooks (21 April 2011). Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes, Second Edition. Mariner Books. ISBN 978-0547242064.
- Page, Lawrence; Espinosa-Pérez, Héctor; Findley, Lloyd; Gilbert, Carter; Lea, Robert; Mandrak, Nicholas; Mayden, Richard; Nelson, Joseph (April 2013). Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, 7th edition. American Fisheries Society. ISBN 978-1-934874-31-8.
- Robins, Robert; Page, Lawrence; Williams, James; Randall, Zachary; Sheehy, Griffin (10 April 2018). Fishes in the Fresh Waters of Florida. University of Florida Press. ISBN 978-1683400332.
- Metzke, Brian; Burr, Brooks; Hinz, Leon; Page, Lawrence; Taylor, Christopher (7 June 2022). An Atlas of Illinois Fishes: 150 Years of Change. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0252044144.
- Page, Lawrence; Bemis, Katherine; Dowling, Thomas; Espinosa-Pérez, Héctor; Findley, Lloyd; Gilbert, Carter; Hartel, Karsten; Lea, Robert; Mandrak, Nicholas; Neighbors, Margaret; Schmitter-Soto, Juan; Walker, H. J. (September 2023). Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, 8th edition. American Fisheries Society. ISBN 978-1-934874-69-1.
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f Barker, Trish (21 April 2023). "LAS honors Lawrence Page for impact on biodiversity research". University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Archived from the original on 12 January 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g Page, Lawrence (July 2023). "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Florida Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 July 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ^ a b c d e "Lawrence Merle Page". American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences. Gale. 2008. Archived from the original on 10 August 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ^ a b "Larry M. Page". Florida Museum. Archived from the original on 11 July 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ^ a b van Hoose, Natalie (26 November 2019). "Two Florida Museum scientists elected 2019 AAAS fellows". Florida Museum. Archived from the original on 18 May 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ^ "LAS Alumni Achievement Award". University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. 2024. Archived from the original on 23 September 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ^ Holliday, Jill. "Dr. Larry Page: Documenting Diversity". iDigBio. Archived from the original on 14 April 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ^ "Dr. Lawrence M. Page from Gainesville, Florida Receives Fellow Award from the American Fisheries Society". American Fisheries Society. 28 August 2018. Archived from the original on 2 October 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ^ Marchese, Halle (3 April 2020). "Lawrence Page receives Fulbright award to study freshwater fish in Thailand". Florida Museum. Archived from the original on 11 July 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ^ "Robert K. Johnson Award for Excellence in Service". American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Archived from the original on 17 February 2024. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ^ "Robert H. Gibbs, Jr. Memorial Award for Excellence in Systematic Ichthyology". American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Archived from the original on 20 January 2024. Retrieved 11 August 2024.