The SSAR student poster awards honor Victor Hutchison for his extensive contributions to herpetology and the development of future herpetologists. The 9th annual SSAR Victor Hutchison Student Poster Awards were presented at the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists & and Herpetologists in Snowbird, UT, 24-28 July 2019. This year there were 16 eligible poster submissions. In recognition of outstanding graduate student poster presentations at the annual meeting, an award was given in each of the following categories: Physiology & Morphology (3 presentations); Evolution, Genetics, & Systematics (4 presentations); Conservation & Management (5 presentations); and Ecology, Natural History, Distribution, & Behavior (4 presentations). All awardees received a check for US $250 and a b