The F. E. J. Fry Medal is an annual award for zoology given by the Canadian Society of Zoologists. It is presented to the Canadian zoologist who has made an outstanding contribution to knowledge and understanding of an area in zoology. He or she is expected to give a lecture to the next annual conference The award was established in 1974 in honour of Frederick E.J. Fry, the Canadian ichthyologist and aquatic ecologist.
2018: Jean-Guy J. Godin, Carleton University. Sexual selection and male mate choice: insights from a small tropical fish
2017: Céline Audet, Université du Québec à Rimouski. Ecophysiology, a unique and exciting—but challenging—way to study adaptations of fishes to their environment.
2003: William K. Milsom, University of British Columbia. Adaptive trends in respiratory control: A comparative perspective.
2002: Robert G. Boutilier, Cambridge University. Mechanisms of cell survival in hypoxia and hypothermia.
2001: Frederick William Henry Beamish, Burapha University. Axioms and anecdotes of a zoologist.
2000: John Philips, University of British Columbia. Pumps, Peptides and Pests.
1999: Chris M. Wood, McMaster University. Physiology of The Lake Magadi Tilapia, a fish adapted to one of the most extreme aquatic environments on Earth.
1996: Charles Krebs, University of British Columbia. Vertebrate community dynamics in the Yukon boreal forest.
1995: Peter Hochachka, University of British Columbia. Regulated metabolic suppression in surviving oxygen lack: a conceptual mirror to Fry’s “scope for activity”.
1994: Brian K. Hall, Dalhousie University. Development and evolution of the vertebrate skeleton.
1993: David Randall, University of British Columbia. Fish gas transfer: conflicts and compromise in design.
1992: Dave R. Jones, University of British Columbia. Cardiovascular dynamics of the alligator.
1991: Roger Downer, University of Waterloo. Exciting insects and other biological diversions.
1990: William C. Leggett, McGill University. Understanding variations in fish distribution and abundance; is the answer blowing in the wind?
1989: George Owen Mackie, University of Victoria. Aggregates or integrates? Aspects of communication in animal communities.
1988: Dennis Chitty, University of British Columbia. Beautiful hypotheses and ugly facts.
1987: Kenneth G. Davey, York University. Blood, guts, sex and affairs of the heart in insects.
1981: Keith Ronald, University of Guelph. Life and death of a seal.
1980: D. M. Ross. University of Alberta. Illusion and reality in comparative physiology.
1979: Maxwell J. Dunbar, McGill University. The blunting of Occam’s razor, or to hell with parsimony.
1978: Peter Anthony Larkin, University of British Columbia. Maybe you can’t get there from here: A foreshortened history of research in relation to management of Pacific salmon.
1977: Helen I. Battle, University of Western Ontario. A saga of zoology in Canada.
1976: Ian McTaggart-Cowan, University of British Columbia. The sociology of carnivores related to their use of resources.
1975: F. R. Hayes, Dalhousie University. Quantitative and aesthetic factors in the definition of an ideal environment.
1974: William S. Hoar, University of British Columbia. Smolt transformation: evolution, behavior and physiology.
