Lawrence M. Page

Page was born in Fairbury, Illinois and grew up in Lexington.^[3][1] After developing an childhood interest in identifying fish he obtained a Bachelor of Science in biology from Illinois State University in 1966.^[7][3][2] He graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a Master of Science in zoology in 1968 and a Ph.D. in zoology in 1972.^[1][2]

After finishing graduate school, Page joined the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) to work on statewide surveys of the fish species present in Illinois.^[1] He was employeed as a fish biologist for architectural engineering firm Sargent & Lundy in 1972 and a consultant for the Missouri Botanical Garden from 1973 to 1976.^[3] He served as an associate ichthyologist at the University of Kansas from 1979 to 1995. He became a full professor at the University of Illinois in 1980.^[3][2]

In 1989 Page became the director of the INHS, a position he held until 1996. He became a principal scientist emeritus at the INHS in 2001.^[2] His work at the INHS cataloguing extant and extirpated fish species within Illinois resulted in the publication of An Atlas of Illinois Fishes in 2022.^[1]

In 2005 Page became the Curator of Fishes at the Florida Museum of Natural History, where he continues to work.^[4] He served as the director of iDigBio, a National Science Foundation specimen curation project, from 2011 to 2019.^[1][2]

• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2019)^[5]
• Fellow, American Fisheries Society (2018)^[8]
• Fulbright award for the study of freshwater fish in Thailand (2020)^[9]
• Robert K. Johnson Award, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (2014)^[10]
• Gibbs Award, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists^[11]

• Page, Lawrence (1 January 1983). Handbook of Darters. TFH Publications. ISBN 978-0876668047.
• Lindquist, David; Page, Lawrence (30 September 1984). Environmental biology of darters. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes. Springer. ISBN 978-9061935063.
• Page, Lawrence (30 September 1985). The Crayfishes and Shrimps (Decapoda) of Illinois. Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin. doi:10.21900/j.inhs.v33.140.
• Lawrence, Page; Burr, Brooks (1 January 1991). A Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes: North America, North of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0395910917.
• Lawrence, Page; Burr, Brooks (21 April 2011). Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes, Second Edition. Mariner Books. ISBN 978-0547242064.
• Page, Lawrence; Espinosa-Pérez, Héctor; Findley, Lloyd; Gilbert, Carter; Lea, Robert; Mandrak, Nicholas; Mayden, Richard; Nelson, Joseph (April 2013). Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, 7th edition. American Fisheries Society. ISBN 978-1-934874-31-8.
• Robins, Robert; Page, Lawrence; Williams, James; Randall, Zachary; Sheehy, Griffin (10 April 2018). Fishes in the Fresh Waters of Florida. University of Florida Press. ISBN 978-1683400332.
• Metzke, Brian; Burr, Brooks; Hinz, Leon; Page, Lawrence; Taylor, Christopher (7 June 2022). An Atlas of Illinois Fishes: 150 Years of Change. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0252044144.
• Page, Lawrence; Bemis, Katherine; Dowling, Thomas; Espinosa-Pérez, Héctor; Findley, Lloyd; Gilbert, Carter; Hartel, Karsten; Lea, Robert; Mandrak, Nicholas; Neighbors, Margaret; Schmitter-Soto, Juan; Walker, H. J. (September 2023). Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, 8th edition. American Fisheries Society. ISBN 978-1-934874-69-1.