Amanda Lynch

About

Amanda Lynch is a professor associated with the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, located at 85 Waterman St, Providence RI 02906. Her research group, which includes members such as Maria Luisa Rocha Santos da Silva and Brian Kao, focuses on environmental and climate-related studies, particularly in the Arctic region. The group has a diverse team of postdoctoral researchers, Ph.D. graduates, and students, indicating a broad engagement in scientific research related to environmental sciences. While the specific details of her research focus are not explicitly described in the provided text, her affiliation with the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society and her leadership of a research group dedicated to Arctic studies suggest her work involves understanding environmental processes, climate change impacts, and possibly bio-geosciences related to polar regions. The group’s extensive network of former members and collaborators across various institutions worldwide highlights her active role in advancing research in these areas.

Research topics

• Geology
• Environmental science
• Oceanography
• Ecology
• Physical geography
• Climatology
• Geography

Selected publications

• Coldest Canadian Arctic communities face greatest reductions in shorefast sea ice

  Nature Climate Change · 2020 · 78 citations

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• Advancing Weather and Climate Forecasting for Our Changing World

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2022-08-10 · 39 citations

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  Abstract Our world is rapidly changing. Societies are facing an increase in the frequency and intensity of high-impact and extreme weather and climate events. These extremes together with exponential population growth and demographic shifts (e.g., urbanization, increase in coastal populations) are increasing the detrimental societal and economic impact of hazardous weather and climate events. Urbanization and our changing global economy have also increased the need for accurate projections of cl…

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• Arctic shipping guidance from the CMIP6 ensemble on operational and infrastructural timescales

  Climatic Change · 2021-07-01 · 33 citations

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• The interaction of ice and law in Arctic marine accessibility

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2022-06-21 · 29 citations

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  Sea ice levies an impost on maritime navigability in the Arctic, but ice cover diminution due to anthropogenic climate change is generating expectations for improved accessibility in coming decades. Projections of sea ice cover retreating preferentially from the eastern Arctic suggest key provisions of international law of the sea will require revision. Specifically, protections against marine pollution in ice-covered seas enshrined in Article 234 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of t…

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• New insights into projected Arctic sea road: operational risks, economic values, and policy implications

  Climatic Change · 2023-03-20 · 25 citations

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Recent grants

• NNA Track 1: Collaborative Research: Navigating Convergent Pressures on Arctic Development

  NSF · $1.2M · 2020–2025

• CNH-S: NNA: Modeling Risk from Black Carbon in a Coupled Natural-Human System at the Arctic Ice Edge

  NSF · $624k · 2018–2022

• Navigating the New Arctic (NNA): Co-production of shorefast ice knowledge in Uummannaq Bay, Greenland

  NSF · $479k · 2018–2022

Frequent coauthors

• David A. Bailey

  NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

  60 shared

• Xueke Li

  State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing

  44 shared

• Jason Beringer

  43 shared

• Siri Veland

  NORCE Norwegian Research Centre

  35 shared

• F. Stuart Chapin

  University of Alaska Fairbanks

  31 shared

• Mark C. Serreze

  31 shared

• Jeffrey R. Key

  NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research

  30 shared

• T. E. Arbetter

  Brown University

  30 shared

Labs

• Amanda LynchPI

Education

• BSc. (Hons), Applied Mathematics

  Monash University

• PhD, Meteorology

  University of Melbourne

  1993

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