2025 AOS Loye and Alden Miller Research Award to Scott K. Robinson

The AOS Loye and Alden Miller Research Award recognizes lifetime achievements in ornithological research. The AOS has selected Scott Robinson as the 2025 AOS Loye and Alden Miller Research Award winner. Dr Scott K. Robinson received his B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1978 and his PhD from Princeton University in 1984. Currently, he is the Ordway Professor at the Florida Museum of Natural History of the University of Florida. Before that, he worked for the Illinois Natural History Survey and the University of Illinois. Robinson has worked extensively in both North and South America and has students working all over the world. While at Dartmouth College, he was fortunate to be mentored by Richard T. Holmes while working at the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study, and by John Terborgh while attending Princeton University. Although he is primarily a community and conservation biologist, he also works on many behavioral ecological issues, especially with flocking species. For much of his career, his goal has been to understand the mechanisms underlying changes in bird communities and populations along environmental gradients, both natural (forest succession, precipitation, temperature, elevation) and anthropogenic (fragmentation, urbanization, agriculture). He has won past awards from Partners in Flight and universities in Peru.