Amanda Preston of Paul Smith's College is 2018 Morse Award Winner

Clockwise from top left: Amanda on Ampersand Mountain;  with a Tagu Lizard in Herpetology; Open Mike Night at Paul Smith's; the Climate March in 2017; and, Saranac Lake World Snowshoe Championships in 2017.

Amanda Preston, a graduating Senior at Paul Smith’s College, is the 2018 Ecology and Environment Richard D. Morse Award Winner.  Amanda, a native of Vermont, is majoring in Biology and minoring in Chemistry.  She has a lifelong passion for the outdoors. Amanda enjoys music and plays several instruments including piano, guitar, ukulele, and mandolin.  She was on the Paul Smith’s College Snowshoe team placing 3^rd in the women’s 20-29 year old category in the 2015 World Snowshoe Championships in Quebec, and won the event in Saranac Lake 2017. She is currently on the canoe team and plans to do the 90miler in the fall. She is a Saranac Lake 6er, and working towards being a 46er. Amanda’s love of the outdoors, the environment, sports, music, and the Adirondacks, certainly embodies the spirit of the Morse Award.  The Award will be presented at the 25th Annual Conference on the Adirondacks.