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American ichthyologist (born 1944) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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 |
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]
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]
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