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  • Cindy Looy
  • Research Collaborator
  • Phone:   202-633-1393
  • Fax:   202-786-2832
  • E-mail Address:   looyc
  • Mailing Address:
    Smithsonian Institution
    PO Box 37012, MRC 121
    Washington, DC 20013-7012
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    National Museum of Natural History
    10th & Constitution NW
    Washington, DC 20560-0121
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Education

Ph.D, 2000, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
M.Sc. 1994, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Research Interests

I am plant ecologist who investigates the response of plants and plant communities to environmental changes and their evolutionary consequences in the Late Paleozoic. My research focuses on the profound floristic changes associated with the end-Permian biotic crisis, and the deglaciation and global warming during the early Permian. In order to understand what is happening on different temporal and spatial scales, this work strongly relies on a combination of palynology and paleobotany. For more information about my interests, please visit my personal homepage here.