Honors and Awards Ctenotus piankai (Storr 1968) Guggenheim Fellow, 1978 Biography in "American Men and Women in Science" Biography in "Who's Who in America" Biography in "Who's Who in the World" Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1981 Biography in "Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology" Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, Australia, 1990 D. Sc., (Ecology), University of Western Australia, 1990 Oochoristica piankai (Bursey, Goldberg, and Woolery 1996) Innovative use of Instructional Technology, 1997 Dean's Fellow, 1998 College of Natural Sciences, Teaching Excellence Award, 1999 Skrjabinodon piankai (Bursey and Goldberg 1999) Big 12 Faculty Fellow, 2000-2001 Dean's Fellow, 2003 Best Non-Fiction Book, Oklahoma Center for the Book, 2004 Distinguished Herpetologist, Herpetologist's League, 2004 Herpetologists League session (Norman, OK, 2004) entitled "Ecology and Evolution of Reptiles: A Tribute to Eric Pianka" ASIH Resolution on Piankafication, Copeia 2004: 989-990 Distinguished Lecturer, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecturer Award at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne Featured in a 2004 Russian book "Faces of Ecology" by G. C. Rosenbergalong with many famous Russian ecologists as well as other luminaries including Lucretius, Leonardo da Vinci, Carl von Linne (Linnaeus), Lavoisier, Lamarck, Goethe, Malthus, Humbolt, von Bauer, Verhulst, Pearl, Liebig, Darwin, Haeckel, Warming, Birge, Lotka, Volterra, Raunkiaer, Thoreau, Tansley, Teilhard de Chardin, Clements, Shelford, H. A. Gleason, H. Walter, Thinemann, Braun-Blanquet, Jacques Cousteau, W. C. Allee, R. A. Fisher, Charles Elton, Andrewartha and Birch, R. H. Whittaker, R. P. McIntosh, W. T. Edmondson, Howard and Eugene Odum, J. T. Curtis, Raymond Lindeman, John L. Harper, Lester Brown, G. E. Hutchinson, R. H. MacArthur, Albert Schweitzer, Ilya Prigogine, Lynn Margulis, Ramon Margalef, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, R. E. Ricklefs, Paul Ehrlich, and Al Gore. Lawrence Slobodkin Lecture in Evolution, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2005. Grand Prize, Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards, 2005. Plaque. Inaugural Address for Ecology, Evolution and Behavior program, Texas A & M. University, 2005. Distinguished Scientist, Texas Academy of Science, 2006. Plaque. Engraved Stone in Oklahoma Heritage Walkway, Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, Norman, 2006. Distinguished Invited Speaker to the Lucian Symposium, St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas, 2006. Honorary Member, French Varanid Association, 2008. Carleton College Alumni Association Award for Distingished Achievement in Evolutionary Ecology, 2010. Plaque. Crossover Event. External Reviewer, Zoology Graduate Program, Kuwait University, 2011. Fellow, Ecological Society of America, 2013. American Academy of Arts and Science, 2014. Daily Texan Article Auffenberg Medal, 2015. Interdisciplinary World Conference on Monitor Lizards, Phranakhon Rajabhat University, Bangkok IUCN Monitor Lizard Specialist Group Eminent Ecologist, Ecological Society of America, 2015. U.T.News American Society of Naturalists Symposium: Latitudinal Gradients in Species Diversity: 50 years since Pianka