Abstract:
The winner of the 2017 Thomas L. Quay Wildlife Diversity Award, Alvin Braswell, had an impressive career that spanned five decades. As a renowned researcher in the field of Herpetology, Braswell’s professional accomplishments include forty years’ employment with the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, involvement with the creation of the 2003 legislation that banned the capture of more than four turtles without a permit, authoring or c-authoring more than fifty journal publications, and involvement with the creation of the NC Herpetologist Society.