Dr Amanda H. Lynch

Amanda H. Lynch is an atmospheric scientist and climate modeler. She serves as the Lindemann Distinguished Professor at the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences of Brown University. Her research comprises three books and over 130 research articles and book chapters, concerns the intersection of science and policy, with a focus on the Arctic as a place that expresses convergences of rapid change in natural and human systems. She has collaborated with a range of stakeholders and community partners, including Iñupiat, Sakha and Yorta Yorta Indigenous Peoples. Lynch won the Priestly Medal in 2008 and the Myres S. McDougal Prize in International Law in 2022, and is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research. At the UN World Meteorological Organization, Lynch chairs the Research Board and co-chairs the Joint Advisory Board on AI.