Amanda H. Lynch is an environmental and social scientist, and the Director of the Brown Institute of Environment and Society and Sloan Lindemann and George Lindemann Jr. Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies at Brown University. She is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
Amanda Lynch | |
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| Education | University of Melbourne (Ph.D.) |
| Children | 2 |
| Honors | Fellow of the American Meteorological Society Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering |
Career
editAfter earning her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Melbourne in 1993, Lynch developed the first Arctic regional climate system model.[1] In 2003, while working at the University of Colorado, Lynch was granted a Federation Fellowship by the Australian Research Council.[2]
After working at Monash University,[3] she joined Brown University in 2011 as a professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences.[4] While at the University in 2013, Lynch was named a chief editor of the Weather, Climate and Society journal[5] and was named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.[4] In 2017, Lynch was elected by a unanimous vote to join the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research.[6] She is co-chair of the World Climate Research Programme[7][8] of the United Nations World Meteorological Organization and is a board member on the Policy Sciences journal.[9]
Personal life
editLynch has two children.[3] She was elected a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science in 2016.[10] She is a Fellow of The Explorers Club 2021. She is a member of the Director’s Circle[11] of the Portland Museum of Art (PMA).
References
edit- ^ "Lynch, Amanda". brown.edu. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ "Australia's bright sparks awarded major grants". .abc.net.au. 21 March 2003. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ a b Richard Lewis. "Amanda Lynch". news.brown.edu. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ a b "Amanda Lynch named AMS Fellow". news.brown.edu. 29 September 2014. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ "AMS journal improves citation record under Lynch's leadership". brown.edu. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ "Lynch elected to Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research". brown.edu. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ "Lynch gives keynote at UN climate change meeting". brown.edu. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ "Urgency in the Anthropocene: Presidential Faculty Award Lecture". brown.edu. 5 November 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ "Journals We Edit". brown.edu. Archived from the original on 5 April 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ "Amanda Lynch". World Academy of Art and Science. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
- ^ "Director's Circle". Portland Museum of Art. 8 June 2023. Retrieved 30 August 2023.