Stephen Blair Hedges

[3] He was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009 for "revealing connections between biological evolution and Earth history in diverse groups of organisms",[4] and was awarded the 2011 Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Life and Health Sciences.

Hedges has studied the relationships and timing of major groups in the tree of life using genomic data.

[15] Hedges also has a field program in the Caribbean where he has studied the evolution and biogeography of amphibians and reptiles with genetic data and maintained a database of information on these species, Caribherp.

He also initiated a captive breeding program to conserve ten endangered species of frog at the Philadelphia Zoo.

[18] Together with Haitian CEO Philippe Bayard, he founded Haiti National Trust, an environmental protection NGO.