H. Jane Brockmann
Animal behaviorist Jane Brockmann is a professor emerita at the University of Florida, where she served as Chair of the Department of Zoology. She is interested in the evolution of alternative strategies and tactics and the economics and mechanisms of decision making in animals. In particular, she has studied the evolution of mating and nesting behavior of horseshoe crabs. Other topics of interest include sexual selection, mate choice, and paternal care, the evolution of sex ratios, the evolution of life-history patterns (e.g. emergence and diapause) and the evolution of social behavior (e.g. nesting behavior of solitary and social wasps).
Brockmann received the 2016 Distinguished Animal Behaviorist Award at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society in recognition of her outstanding career in the field of Animal Behavior. In addition to awards for her contributions to animal science, she has been recognized for her commitments to science communication and citizen science.