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 |
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.
After earning her Ph.D.inAtmospheric 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]
Lynch 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).
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