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CANQUA awards
The WA Johnston medal
CANQUA's most meritorious award is the WA Johnston medal for professional excellence
in Quaternary science,
awarded at the biennial CANQUA meeting.
The award is made by a committee headed by the Past President, based on nominations of CANQUA
members.
Winners
The medal was first awarded in 1987.
WA Johnston
WA Johnston was an innovator in Quaternary studies in Canada who in his years with the
Geological Survey of Canada
developed many of the concepts of regional Quaternary studies used today.
Student prizes
CANQUA gives a number of student awards. The DN Proudfoot
and Guy Lortie awards
are given to the
best student presentation and paper at the CANQUA biennial meeting.
The
awards commerate two
Canadian Quaternarists who passed away in the prime of their lives after
outstanding student and professional careers. Previous winners include:-
- Rod Smith and
Bianca Frechette (St. John's, 1995)
- Duane Froese and Andrew Stumpf (Montreal, 1997)
- Duane Froese/ Tim Johnsen (Proudfoot award, shared), and
Joanne Livingston (Lortie); Whitehorse, 2001. Duane talked on
"Mid-Pliocene Permafrost and the First Cordilleran Ice Sheet in Yukon Territory",
and Tim's presentation was on
"Glacial Lake Deadman, Southern Interior of British Columbia:
Paleogeography and Paleoenvironment". Joanne's poster discussed
"Reconstructing the Late Holocene (Last 3000 Years)
Ice-Jam Flood History of the Middle Yukon River"
- Halifax, 2003: Guy Lortie award winners (poster)
- 1st: Sophie Baker
- 2nd: Andrea Nurse
- 3rd: John Rayburn
David Proudfoot winner (Talk)
- 1st tie: Thain Hundert & Allen Gontz
- 2nd: Jessie Vincent
- 3rd: Joshua Kurek
- Winnipeg, 2005: Guy Lortie award winners (poster)
- 1st: Kerry Ayers
- 2nd: Amelie Boivin
- 3rd: Josh Kurek
David Proudfoot winner (Talk)
- 1st: Martin Giradin
- 2nd: Andy Breckenridge
- 3rd: Jerome Etienne Lesemann
- Ottawa, 2007
: Guy Lortie award winners (poster)
- 1st: Kathryn Denommee (Waterloo)
- 2nd: H. Dube-Loubert (UQUAM)
- 3rd: Fonya Irvine (UNB)
David Proudfoot winner (Talk)
- 1st: Denise Brushett (Memorial)
- 2nd: Josh Kurek (UNB)
- 3rd: Kayla Vickers (SFU)
Abstracts
- Simon Fraser, 2009
: Guy Lortie award winners (poster)
- 1. Lesley Dampier
- 2. Adrian Hickin
- 3. Tyler Kuhn
David Proudfoot winner (Talk)
- 1. Benoit Vigneault
- 2. Alberto V. Reyes
- 3.Timothy F. Johnsen
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