Download 2012 Annual Report - California Academy of Sciences

The Grainy Cochran Frog, Cochranella
granulosa, is one of more than 7,000
amphibians included in AmphibiaWeb,
an online catalog launched by Academy
Fellow David Wake in 2000 to track
the distribution and conservation status
of the world’s known amphibians —
a critical step in the efforts to
protect these charismatic creatures.
Fellows
Nominated by their peers and selected by the Academy Board
of Trustees, Academy Fellows are renowned contributors to
one or more of the natural sciences. In 2012, the Academy
welcomed 10 new members to this illustrious group of more than
300 scientists, and bestowed its highest honor on one Fellow.
Regular & Honorary Fellows Class of 2012
Honorary Fellow:
Jeanne E. Arnold
University of California,
Los Angeles
Anthropology
Fellows:
Steven V. W. Beckwith
University of California,
Berkeley
Astronomy
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
University of California,
San Francisco
Molecular Biology
Justin Brashares
University of California,
Berkeley
Ecology & Wildlife Conservation
Janis Dickinson
Cornell University
Behavioral Ecology,
Conservation Biology
Jonathan B. Geller
California State Universities
Moss Landing
Marine Laboratories
Marine Ecology and
Marine Molecular Ecology
Gonzalo Giribet
Harvard University
Entomology
Susan Desmond-Hellmann
University of California,
San Francisco
Oncology, Biotechnology
Sharon Long
Stanford University
Plant/Microbial Symbiosis
Vance T. Vredenburg
San Francisco State University
Herpetology
Recipient of the 2012 Fellows’ Medal
David B. Wake
Professor Emeritus,
Department of Integrative Biology,
University of California, Berkeley
Dr. David B. Wake is an internationally acclaimed scientist who
studies the evolutionary biology of amphibians and the amphibian
extinction crisis. He is a Fellow of the California Academy of
Sciences as well as of the American Academy of Arts and Science
and the American Philosophical Society, and is also a member
of the National Academy of Sciences. He served as Director of
Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology for 27 years and remains
an active curator. Dr. Wake has led a prolific career, winning
several prestigious awards, and his career remains productive
with more than 110 papers published since his retirement in
2003. His many awards and honors include the Joseph Grinnell
Medal in Scientific Natural History and the Henry S. Fitch Award
for Excellence in Herpetology.
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