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Amanda Lynch

Professor of Geological Sciences:
Geological Sciences
Phone: +1 401 863 3032
Amanda_Lynch@brown.edu

Biography

Amanda Lynch obtained her Ph.D. in Meteorology in 1993 from the University of Melbourne. From 1992-2003 she was in the United States, most recently at the University of Colorado. She was a Fellow of the NOAA Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science, a Visiting Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and a consultant to Los Alamos National Laboratory. She returned to Australia in 2004 to take up a Federation Fellowship and head the Monash University Climate program. She was admitted as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2008, and returned to the U.S. in 2011.

Lynch's interests lie in the application of climate and meteorological research to concrete problems of policy relevance. Her approaches include regional and global climate models of the contemporary and past climates, weather prediction models, statistical models, and quantitative and qualitative analysis. She has a strong interest in working with under-represented minorities, particularly indigenous people.

Degrees

B.Sc. (Hons), Ph.D.

Awards

2008: Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
2008: Priestly Medal recipient, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
2007-2009 Vice President, Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies 2003: Federation Fellowship, Australian Research Council

Affiliations

Society for Policy Sciences (by invitation only)
American Meteorological Society
American Geophysical Union
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

Teaching

Teaching
Spring 2012: GEOL 1510 Introduction to Atmospheric Dynamics
Spring 2012: GEOL 1970 Independent Study: Practicum in Atmospheric Modelling

Advising

Undergraduate
Stacey McIlwaine, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, summer 1998
Melinda Koslow, SMART program, summer 2001, 2002
Casey Thornbrugh, SOARS program, summer 2002
Jillian Gallucci, Geography Honours student, 2006
Michelle D'Amico, Geography Honours student, 2008

M.S./M.A.
Mark Petersen, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (graduated: 2003)
Thomas Kampe, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (graduated: 2003)
Anna Lee, Geography (graduated: 2010)
Kartik Madhira, Geography (graduated: 2010)

Ph.D.
David Bailey, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (graduated: December 2000)
Richard Cullather, Aerospace Engineering (graduated: December 2002)
Andrew Slater, Geography (graduated: August 2003)
Lee Tryhorn, Geography (graduated: May 2008)
Lisa Alexander, Geography (graduated: August 2009; winner, Mollie Holman medal for best thesis at Monash University)
Carolina Roman, Geography (graduated: July 2010; winner, Harold D. Lasswell prize for best thesis in the policy sciences)
Michelle D'Amico, Geography (current)

Post-doctoral
Wanli Wu, 1997-1999
Eric Girard, 1998-1999
Wei-Bing Lin, 2000-2002
John Cassano, 2001-2002
Klaus Görgen, 2004-2006
Andrew Marshall, 2004-2006
Josephine Brown, 2006-2008
Maria Tsukernik, 2009-2011