The Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, now known as the AOS Miller Award, was established in 1993 by the

Cooper Ornithological Society The Cooper Ornithological Society (COS), formerly the Cooper Ornithological Club, was an American ornithological society. It was founded in 1893 in California and operated until 2016. Its name commemorated James Graham Cooper, an early California b ...

(COS) to recognize lifetime achievement in

ornithological Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

research. The namesakes were

Loye H. Miller Loye Holmes Miller (18 October 1874 – 6 April 1970), was an American paleontologist and zoologist who served as professor of zoology at the University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Berkeley, and University of California ...

and his son Alden H. Miller, both of whom focused largely on ornithology. Since the merger of the Cooper Ornithological Society with the

American Ornithologists' Union The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is an ornithological organization based in the United States. The society was formed in October 2016 by the merger of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) and the Cooper Ornithological Society. Its m ...

to form the

American Ornithological Society The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is an ornithological organization based in the United States. The society was formed in October 2016 by the merger of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) and the Cooper Ornithological Society. Its m ...

in 2016 the award has been presented by the latter.

Recipients of the award

Source
American Ornithological Society
;Cooper Ornithological Society * 1993 – George Bartholomew * 1994 –

Storrs Olson Storrs Lovejoy Olson (April 3, 1944 – January 20, 2021) was an American biologist and ornithologist who spent his career at the Smithsonian Institution, retiring in 2008. One of the world's foremost avian paleontologists, he was best known ...

* 1995 – Barbara De Wolfe * 1996 – William Dawson * 1997 – Robert Storer * 1998 – Russell Balda * 1999 – Gordon Orians * 2000 –

Ernst Mayr Ernst Walter Mayr (; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, Philosophy of biology, philosopher o ...

* 2001 –

Frank Pitelka Frank Alois Pitelka (27 March 1916 – 10 October 2003) was an American ornithologist. He was the 2001 recipient of the Cooper Ornithological Society’s Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, which is given in recognition of lifetime achievement ...

* 2002 – Richard Holmes * 2003 –

Peter and Rosemary Grant Peter Raymond Grant (born October 26, 1936) and Barbara Rosemary Grant (born October 8, 1936) are a British married couple who are evolutionary biologists at Princeton University. Each currently holds the position of emeritus professor. The ...

* 2004 –

Alexander Skutch Alexander Frank Skutch (May 20, 1904 – May 12, 2004) was a naturalist and writer. He published numerous scientific papers and books about birds and several books on philosophy. He is best remembered ornithologically for his pioneering work on ...

* 2005 – John Wiens * 2006 –

Robert Ricklefs Robert Eric Ricklefs (born June 6, 1943) is an American ornithologist and ecologist. He was the Curators' Professor of Biology at the University of Missouri, St. Louis from 1996 until August 2019. Education Born in 1943, he grew up near Monterey, ...

* 2007 – Robert Payne * 2008 – Peter Marler * 2009 – Frances James * 2010 – Keith A. Hobson * 2011 – Susan Haig * 2012 – Thomas Martin * 2013 – Trevor Price * 2014 – Ellen Ketterson * 2015 – Jerram Brown * 2016 – Walter D. Koenig ;American Ornithological Society * 2017 - Carol Vleck * 2018 - Janis Dickinson * 2019 - A. Townsend Peterson

References

Ornithology awards Awards established in 1993 American awards {{sci-award-stub

Recipients of the award

See also

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