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Cynthia Froyd Named 1998 Denise Gaudreau Award Winner

The AMQUA Council is pleased to announce that this year's winner of the Denise Gaudreau Award for Excellence in Quaternary Studies is Cynthia Froyd. Cynthia is a U.S. Forest Service ecologist with the Mt. Hood National Forest who is now completing her Ph.D. in Paleoecology at the University of Cambridge, UK, under the direction of Prof. K.D. Bennett. Her dissertation is focused on the Holocene pine (Pinus sylvestris) forest dynamics of the western Scottish Highlands, a topic highly relevant to current conservation and forest policy development in Scotland.

Cynthia received her bachelors degree in Forest Resources Sciences from Humbolt State University in 1989, and later finished her Masters Degree in Forest Ecology at Oregon State University in 1992. Working for the Forest Service in Oregon, she had been asked to reconstruct the disturbance history of NW Oregon and SW Washington over the last 500 years in order to assess the "natural condition" of the forest before the influence of non-indigenous people. Cynthia indicated that she chose to do a Ph.D. in Paleoecology because every question of natural variability led her to look further back in time and demand answers of climate and global phenomena.

Cynthia will receive the Gaudreau Award at the Biennial meeting in Puerto Vallarta this September.