Antarctica’s name alone conjures imagery of the harshest environment on Earth, but it is more than its monochromatic color scheme of snow and ice. Meet the many species of penguins that waddle and swim through the freezing water, along with an abundance of other life, on a journey south with quantitative ecologist Dr. Heather Lynch.
Dr. Heather Joan LynchQuantitative Ecologist, Geographer, Conservation Biologist
Dr. Heather Lynch is a quantitative ecologist and an Associate Professor at Stony Brook University with a joint appointment in the Department of Ecology & Evolution and the Institute for Advanced Computational Science. Lynch’s research is dedicated to understanding the population dynamics of Antarctic wildlife, with a particular focus on Antarctic penguins, and she has more than a decade of field experience in Antarctica as co-PI of the Antarctic Site Inventory project. Lynch has helped pioneer the use of satellite imagery for studying the distribution and abundance of Antarctic seabirds and has published the first Antarctic-wide satellite-based surveys of both Adélie penguins and Antarctic petrels. Dr. Lynch serves as Principal Investigator for a large, multi-institution National Science Foundation award tasked with building the cyberinfrastructure required to unite high-resolution commercial imagery and high-performance computing for imagery-enabled science in the polar regions. Lynch received an NSF CAREER Award for her work on the spatial dynamics of Antarctic penguins and was elected an early career fellow of the Ecological Society of America. Lynch has an A.B. in Physics from Princeton University, an M.A. in Physics from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University.
Antarctica’s name alone conjures imagery of the harshest environment on Earth, but it is more than its monochromatic color scheme of snow and ice. Meet the many species of penguins that waddle and swim through the freezing water, along with an abundance of other life, on a journey south with quantitative ecologist Dr. Heather Lynch.
Dr. Heather Joan LynchQuantitative Ecologist, Geographer, Conservation Biologist
Dr. Heather Lynch is a quantitative ecologist and an Associate Professor at Stony Brook University with a joint appointment in the Department of Ecology & Evolution and the Institute for Advanced Computational Science. Lynch’s research is dedicated to understanding the population dynamics of Antarctic wildlife, with a particular focus on Antarctic penguins, and she has more than a decade of field experience in Antarctica as co-PI of the Antarctic Site Inventory project. Lynch has helped pioneer the use of satellite imagery for studying the distribution and abundance of Antarctic seabirds and has published the first Antarctic-wide satellite-based surveys of both Adélie penguins and Antarctic petrels. Dr. Lynch serves as Principal Investigator for a large, multi-institution National Science Foundation award tasked with building the cyberinfrastructure required to unite high-resolution commercial imagery and high-performance computing for imagery-enabled science in the polar regions. Lynch received an NSF CAREER Award for her work on the spatial dynamics of Antarctic penguins and was elected an early career fellow of the Ecological Society of America. Lynch has an A.B. in Physics from Princeton University, an M.A. in Physics from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University.
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