award for her work in Madagascar
Anne Yoder, associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has received a Bay and Paul Foundation Biodiversity Leadership Award for her efforts to promote conservation biology in Madagascar.
The awards are designed to reward and promote understanding and protection of biodiversity, the biological diversity of life at all levels, from genes to species to entire ecosystems.
Winners receive $180,000 over three years. Although the awards carry no obligation on the part of the recipients, Yoder and the other five winners this year have indicated they will use the money to continue their work to save biodiversity.
Yoder studies Madagascar as an evolutionary laboratory for generating vertebrate diversity, with special attention to the island's lemur populations and their close relatives on the nearby African continent. Madagascar is home to lemurs, a diverse group of more than 35 primate species, all of which are found nowhere else on earth. These include the mouse lemurs, which are the world's smallest living primates.
One of Yoder's major efforts has been to establish a conservation biology training program for faculty and students in the Malagasy Republic. This project brings promising researchers to Yoder's laboratory in the United States for hands-on training in conservation techniques. Several of these students have returned to Madagascar and hold leadership positions in the nation's scientific community.
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