Amanda Lynch

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Amanda Lynch
Education Monash University (B.Sc. hons)
University of Melbourne (Ph.D.)
Spouse Charles H. Norchi
HonorsFellow of the American Meteorological Society
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
Fellow of the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research
Priestley Medal of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

Amanda H. Lynch is an atmospheric scientist and Sloan Lindemann and George Lindemann, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Environment and Society and Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences [1] at Brown University. She was founding Director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society [2] in 2014. [3] She is an expert in polar climate system modelling, indigenous environmental knowledge and climate policy analysis.

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Lynch is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research. [4]

Career

After receiving a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics with First Class Honours at Monash University, Lynch earned her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Melbourne in 1993, Lynch developed the first Arctic regional climate system model. [5] In 2003, while working at the University of Colorado, Lynch was granted a Federation Fellowship by the Australian Research Council. [6]

After working at Monash University, [7] she joined Brown University in 2011 as a professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences. [8] While at the University in 2013, Lynch was named a chief editor of the Weather, Climate and Society journal [9] and was named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. [8] She was elected a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science in 2016. [10] In 2017, Lynch was elected a Fellow of the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research. [11] [12]

Lynch is chair of the Research Board [13] of the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO). [14] She was Vice-chair of the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme 2017-2019 [15] and was a member of the Scientific Committee [16] of the 2023 WCRP Open Science Conference, the first such Conference held in Africa. [17]

Lynch was awarded the Priestley Medal of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society in 2007, [18] and the Myres S. McDougal Prize in International Law [19] in 2022. [20] [21]

Personal life

Lynch is married to Professor Charles H. Norchi.

She is a Fellow of The Explorers Club. She is a member of the Director’s Circle [22] of the Portland Museum of Art (PMA).

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References

  1. ↑ "Amanda Lynch". Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. Brown University. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  2. ↑ "Institute at Brown for Environment and Society". Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. Brown University. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  3. ↑ "IBES 10th Anniversary". Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. Brown University. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  4. ↑ "Our Members". Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  5. ↑ "Lynch, Amanda". brown.edu. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  6. ↑ "Australia's bright sparks awarded major grants". .abc.net.au. 21 March 2003. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  7. ↑ Richard Lewis. "Amanda Lynch". news.brown.edu. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  8. 1 2 "Amanda Lynch named AMS Fellow". news.brown.edu. 29 September 2014. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  9. ↑ "AMS journal improves citation record under Lynch's leadership". Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. Brown University. 2 July 2015. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  10. ↑ "Member Directory - Lynch, Amanda". World Academy of Art & Science. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  11. ↑ "Lynch elected to Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research". Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. Brown University. 13 December 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  12. ↑ "Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education - Biography - Amanda Lynch". U.S. National Science Foundation. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  13. ↑ "Research Board". World Meteorological Organization. 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  14. ↑ "Research Board Members". World Meteorological Organization. 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
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  17. ↑ "Conference vision". WCRP Open Science Conference. World Climate Research Programme. 14 June 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  18. ↑ "Priestley Medal". Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. 2024. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  19. ↑ "Awards". The Society of Policy Scientists. 2024. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  20. ↑ "2025 Symposium Speaker Bios". College of Liberal Arts. University of New Hampshire. 2024. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  21. ↑ "Maine Law Magazine - Issue No. 97 - Faculty Notes - Charles H. Norchi" (PDF). University of Maine School of Law p. 36. 15 December 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  22. ↑ "Director's Circle". Portland Museum of Art. 8 June 2023. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
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