Professor Catherine Badgley and Professor Emeritus Gerald Smith received awards at the annual meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology in Berlin, Germany in November 2014.

Badgley received the Joseph T. Gregory Award to honor outstanding service to the welfare of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology.

Badgley is spending two months of her sabbatical working with long-time collaborators at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University. They are synthesizing three decades of research on the fossil record of mammals and environmental history of the Indian subcontinent that spans the last 20 million years...

Smith was given the SVP Honorary Member Award for distinguished contribution to the field of vertebrate paleontology. The award recognizes Smith’s work documenting evolutionary changes in freshwater fishes in the western United States over the past 15 million years. The main contribution of that work was to understand geological controls on rates and directions of evolutionary change.

Smith’s current research in the Boston area continues the study of geological controls on fish evolution. He is also involved in a political economic study of the importance of local community control on conservation of fishes...