Positions Held:

• 1999- Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin
• 1997- Director, Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin
• 1992-99 Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin
• 1992 Lecturer in Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• 1990-92 Guyer Fellow in Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• 1989-90 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Other Appointments:

• 1995- Field Associate, Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
• 1992- Adjunct Curator of Reptiles, University of Wisconsin Zoological Museum, Madison

Professional Societies:

• American Society of Icthyologists and Herpetologists
• American Society of Naturalists
• Biological Society of Washington
• Ecological Society of America
• Herpetologist's League
• Society for Conservation Biology
• Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
• Society for the Study of Evolution
• Society of Systematic Biologists

Honors, Awards, etc.

• N.Y. State Regents Scholarship, 1975-1979
• NSF Graduate Fellowship, 1979-1982
• Atkins Fund, Harvard University, grant for OTS course, 1980
• Richmond Fund, Harvard University, grant for travel to Costa Rica, 1980
• Anderson Fund, Harvard University, grants for field work in Jamaica, 1981-1982
• NIH Genetics Traineeship, 1982-1985
• The Conservation Agency, grants for field work in the Virgin Islands, 1984-1992, 1994-95
• Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research, field work in Jamaica, 1984
• Committee on Research and Creative Activity, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, summer research award, 1993
  

Publications:

• Futuyma, D.J. and G.C. Mayer. 1980. Non-allopatric speciation in animals. Systematic Zoology 29:254-271.
• Futuyma, D.J., R.C. Lewontin, G.C. Mayer, J. Seger and W. Stubblefield. 1981. Macroevolution conference. Science 211:770.
• Ross, F.D. and G.C. Mayer. 1983. On the dorsal armor of the Crocodilia. pp. 305-331 in A.G.J. Rhodin and K. Miyata, eds. Advances in Herpetology and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass.
• Mayer, G.C. and J.D. Lazell. 1988. Distributional records for reptiles and amphibians from the Puerto Rican Bank. Herpetological Review 19:23-24.
• Mayer, G.C. and J.D. Lazell. 1988. Significance of frog in amber. Science 239:1477-1478.
• Losos, J.B. and G.C. Mayer, eds. 1991. Anolis Newsletter IV. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
• Mayer, G.C. 1991. Opening remarks -- Biology of Anolis Lizards Symposium. pp. 101-103 in J.B. Losos and G.C. Mayer, eds. Anolis Newsletter IV, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
• Schwenk, K. and G.C. Mayer. 1991. Tongue display in anoles and its evolutionary significance. pp. 131-140 in J.B. Losos and G.C. Mayer, eds. Anolis Newsletter IV, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
• Mayer, G.C. 1991. Review: The Galapagos Islands: the Essential Handbook for Exploring, Enjoying & Understanding Darwin's Enchanted Islands, by M. Stephenson. Noticias de Galapagos 50:19-20.
• Lazell, J.D. and G.C. Mayer. 1992. William P. MacLean III 1943-1991. Copeia 1992:604-605.
• Mayer, G.C. and J.D. Lazell. 1992. Identity and distribution of the Anolis lizard of Hawaii and other Pacific islands.
  Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 73(2, supp.):265.
• Mayer, G.C. and R.M. Chipley. 1992. Turnover in the avifauna of Guana Island, British Virgin Islands. Journal of Animal
  Ecology 61:561-566.
• Mayer, G.C. and S.C. Adolph. 1993. A latitudinal trend in turnover rates of island bird faunas. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 74(2, supp.):349.
• Minton, R.L. and G.C. Mayer. 1994. A method for the isolation of total genomic DNA from the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha. pp. 543-551 in Proceedings of the 4th International Zebra Mussel Conference. UW Sea Grant Institute, Madison, WI
• Ross, C.A., G.C. Mayer, and R. Bour. 1995. Designation of a lectotype for Crocodilus siamensis Schneider, 1801 (Reptilia: Crocodylia). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108:298-301.
• Kirsch, J.A.W. and G.C. Mayer. 1998. The platypus is not a rodent: DNA hybridization, amniote phylogeny, and the palimpsest theory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 353:1221-1237.
• Mayer, G.C. and J.A.W. Kirsch. 1999. Preliminary report on DNA-DNA hybridization studies of anoles. pp. 83-85 in J.B. Losos and M. Leal, eds. Anolis Newsletter V, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
• Mayer, G.C., J.A.W. Kirsch, J.M. Hutcheon, F.-J. Lapointe and J. Gingras. 1999. On the valid name of the lesser New Zealand short-tailed bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 112:470-490.
• Mayer, G.C. 1999. Geographic distribution: Ameiva wetmorei, Hemidactylus mabouia, Sphaerodactylus roosevelti,
  Sphaerodactylus nicholsi. Herpetological Review 30:109-111.
• Hendrickson, S.L., G.C. Mayer, E.P. Wallen and K. Quigley. 2000. Genetic variability and geographic structure of three subspecies of tigers (Panthera tigris) based on MHC class I variation. Animal Conservation 3:135-143.
• Mayer, G.C. and J.A.W. Kirsch. 2000. Comments on the proposed conservation of usage of the names Mystacina Gray, 1843, Chalinolobus Peters, 1866, M. tuberculata Gray, 1843 and C. tuberculatus (J.R. Forster, 1844) (Mammalia, Chiroptera). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 57:172-176.
• Mayer, G.C. and J. Lazell. 2000. A new species of Mabuya (Sauria: Scincidae) from the British Virgin Islands. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 113:871-886.
• Mayer, G.C. 2002. Darwin and Wallace at Burlington House. BioQuest Notes 11(2):1, 10-13.

Invited Papers:

• Deterministic aspects of community structure in West Indian reptiles and amphibians. College of the Virgin. Islands, St. Thomas, U.S.V.I., July, 1986
• A theory of island biogeography with especial reference to the reptiles and amphibians of the Virgin Islands. University of California, Berkeley, October, 1986
• Morphological convergence in Anolis communities of the Greater Antilles. University of California, Berkeley, October, 1986
• Status and distribution of the terrestrial amphibians and reptiles of the Virgin Islands, excluding St. Croix. Status y distribucion de los reptiles y anfibios de la region de Puerto Rico: un simposio/taller. Depto. de Recursos Naturales, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, April, 1990
• Status and distribution of an endangered species, Anolis roosevelti, on the Puerto Rican Bank. Status y distribtucion de los reptiles y anfibios de la region de Puerto Rico: un simposio/taller. Depto. de Recursos Naturales, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, April, 1990
• A theory of island biogeography. Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. April, 1991
• Darwin and Wallace at Burlington House. University of Wisconsin, Madison, February, 1998
• Turnover, equilibrium, and saturation in island bird communities. University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, December, 1998
• Estimation of the phylogenetic relationships of some anoles using DNA-DNA hybridization. "An Anolis Symposium", Herpetologist's League, State College, Penn., June, 1999 (G.C. Mayer & J.A.W. Kirsch)

Contributed Papers:

• Karyotypic change and speciation in Anolis. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles/Herpetologist's League, Memphis, Tenn., 1981
• Homologies of the dorsal armor of crocodilians. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles/Herpetologist's League, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1982 (G.C. Mayer and F.D. Ross)
• Convergent morphological evolution in West Indian Anolis communities. Society for the Study of Evolution, Durham, New Hampshire, 1986
• Morphological convergence in Greater Antillean Anolis faunas. "Biology of Anolis Lizards" symposium, American Society of Icthyologists and Herpetologists, San Francisco, Calif., June, 1989
• Identity and distribution of the Anolis lizard of Hawaii and other Pacific islands. Ecological Society of America, Honolulu, Hawaii, August, 1992 (G.C. Mayer and J.D. Lazell; read by S.C. Adolph)
• A latitudinal trend in turnover rates of island bird faunas. Ecological Society of America, Madison, Wisc., August, 1993 (G.C. Mayer and S.C. Adolph)
• Are West Indian bird communities saturated? American Society of Naturalists/Society for the Study of Evolution, Madison, Wisc., June, 1999
• When is an island community in stochastic equilibrium? Ecological Society of America, Madison, Wisc., August, 2001

Field Experience:

• Bermuda 1979, 1999
• Costa Rica 1980, 2001, 2002
• Hispaniola 1980, 1991
• Jamaica 1980-84, 1995
• Puerto Rico 1981, 1988, 1990
• Grand Cayman 1984-85, 1987, 1990
• Virgin Islands 1984-1992, 1994-1995
• Bahamas 1987
• Galapagos/Ecuador 1988
  

Other Professional Activities:

• Co-organizer, with J.B. Losos, of symposium on "Biology of Anolis Lizards," American Society of Icthyologists and Herpetologists annual meeting, San Francisco, Calif., June, 1989
• Reviewer of Crocodylia for Crocodilian, Tuatara and Turtle Species of the World, F.W. King and R.L. Burke, eds., ASC, Washington, D.C., 1989
• Reviews of manuscripts for American Museum Novitates, American Naturalist, Bioelectromagnetics, Breviora, California Academy of Sciences, Caribbean Journal of Science, Cladistics, Copeia, Evolution, Evolutionary Ecology, Herpetologica, Journal of Herpetology, Mariner Mammal Science, Polar Biology, and Systematic Zoology
• Organization for Tropical Studies, field course on Tropical Biology, an Ecological Approach, Universidad de Costa Rica, 1980
• Naturalist/lecturer for Friends of the Museum of Comparative Zoology trip to the Galapagos Islands & Ecuador, 1988

Teaching:

• University of Wisconsin-Parkside
• Undergraduate Courses Evolutionary Biology, Quantitative Biology, Principles of Ecology, Vertebrate Zoology, Molecular Evolution, Science & Pseudoscience, Environmental Studies Seminar
• Graduate Course Molecular Evolution
• University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Undergraduate Course Organic Evolution
• Graduate Course Ecological and Historical Biogeography
• Harvard University
• Undergraduate Course Island Biology

Graduate Advising:

• Applied Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
• Maria Davey, M.S., 1994, "Characterization of a cytokinin-enhanced protein and other proteins that bind upstream of the cucumber hydroxypyruvate reductase gene"; committee member Sher Hendrickson, M.S., 1995,
• "Variation of the major histocompatibility class I loci in captive United States tiger populations"; committee member
  Jacqueline Delp, M.S., 1996,
• "Identification of a molecular marker linked to a hybrid incompatibility factor in Tribolium castaneum by bulked segregant analysis of RAPD markers"; committee member Robbyn Tuinstra, M.S., 1997,
• The effects of extremely low frequency magnetic fields on biochemical processes"; committee member Russell Minton, M.S., 1997
• Genetic and ecological studies of Puperita pupa and Puperita tristis (Gastropoda: Neritidae)"; committee member Benjamin Krenke
• Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison Johannes Foufopoulos, M.S., 1995
• Reptile extinctions on land-bridge islands: what makes a species prone to extinction?"; committee member Lin-ling Changchien, Ph.D., 1996,
• A phylogenetic study of sceloporine lizards and their relationships with other iguanid