Lawrence M. Page Explained

Birth Date:17 April 1944
Birth Place:Fairbury, Illinois
Education:Illinois State University (BS)
University of Illinois (MS, PhD)
Doctoral Advisor:Phil Smith[1]
Discipline:Ichthyology
Workplaces:University of Florida
Illinois Natural History Survey
Florida Museum of Natural History
Main Interests:Taxonomy, evolution, and ecology of freshwater fishes.[2]

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] 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. After developing an childhood interest in identifying fish he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Illinois State University in 1966.[7] 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.

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. 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. 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.

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. 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.

In 2005 Page became the Curator of Fishes at the Florida Museum of Natural History, where he continues to work. He served as the director of iDigBio, a National Science Foundation specimen curation project, from 2011 to 2019.

Awards and recognition

Bibliography

Taxon described by him

Taxon named in his honor

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Barker . Trish . LAS honors Lawrence Page for impact on biodiversity research . University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign . 10 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240112033417/https://las.illinois.edu/news/2023-04-21/las-honors-lawrence-page-impact-biodiversity-research . 12 January 2024 . 21 April 2023.
  2. Web site: Page . Lawrence . Curriculum Vitae . Florida Museum . 10 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240711041802/https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/59/2024/03/CV-LM-Page-July-2023.pdf . 11 July 2024 . July 2023.
  3. Web site: Lawrence Merle Page . American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences . Gale . 10 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240810171153/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=BIC&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CK3099115461&v=2.1&it=r&sid=BIC&asid=160881a6 . 10 August 2024 . 2008 . live.
  4. Web site: Larry M. Page . Florida Museum . 10 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240711062439/https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/people/larry-page/ . 11 July 2024 . live.
  5. Web site: van Hoose . Natalie . Two Florida Museum scientists elected 2019 AAAS fellows . Florida Museum . 10 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240518060523/https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/page-and-soltis-elected-aaas-fellows/ . 18 May 2024 . 26 November 2019 . live.
  6. Web site: LAS Alumni Achievement Award . University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Liberal Arts & Sciences . 10 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230923205108/https://las.illinois.edu/alumni/awards/achievement . 23 September 2023 . 2024.
  7. Web site: Holliday . Jill . Dr. Larry Page: Documenting Diversity . iDigBio . 10 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240414022009/https://www.idigbio.org/content/dr-larry-page-documenting-diversity . 14 April 2024 . live.
  8. Web site: Dr. Lawrence M. Page from Gainesville, Florida Receives Fellow Award from the American Fisheries Society . American Fisheries Society . 10 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221002152655/https://fisheries.org/2018/08/dr-lawrence-m-page-from-gainesville-florida-receives-fellow-award-from-the-american-fisheries-society/ . 2 October 2022 . 28 August 2018 . live.
  9. Web site: Marchese . Halle . Lawrence Page receives Fulbright award to study freshwater fish in Thailand . Florida Museum . 10 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240711013530/https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/lawrence-page-fulbright-2020/ . 11 July 2024 . 3 April 2020 . live.
  10. Web site: Robert K. Johnson Award for Excellence in Service . American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists . 11 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240217102758/https://www.asih.org/awards/johnson-award . 17 February 2024 . live.
  11. Web site: Robert H. Gibbs, Jr. Memorial Award for Excellence in Systematic Ichthyology . American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists . 11 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240120032851/https://www.asih.org/awards/gibbs-award . 20 January 2024 . live.
  12. Web site: ITIS - Report: Hypostomus pagei . 2022-08-21 . www.itis.gov.
  13. Web site: Family LORICARIIDAE: Subfamily HYPOSTOMINAE Kner 1853 (Suckermouth Catfishes or Plecos) . 10 August 2024 . Christopher Scharpf . Kenneth J. Lazara . amp . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara . 22 September 2018.

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