Geerat Vermeij

Geerat Vermeij is a Professor of Marine Ecology and Paleoecology at the University of California, Davis. Vermeij has published nearly a hundred scientific papers and four books. He served as editor for Evolution, the field's foremost journal, has a world-class collection of shells, and is an intrepid field naturalist and explorer of the coasts of nearly every continent. Vermeij received a MacArthur Fellowship, the “genius” grant in 1992, and in 2000 was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.