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