Dr. Heather Lynch presents a talk on "It Takes a Village: Saving Antarctica in the Anthropocene" 

Charles B. Wang Theater

Monday, April 15th, 2024 at 5:00 PM

SUMMARY

Dr. Heather Lynch will give a presentation about how it takes a collaborative effort to make a change. 

BIOGRAPHY:  Heather Lynch

Heather Lynch is the Institute for Advanced Computational Science Endowed Chair for Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University and the inaugural Director of the Stony Brook Collaborative for the Earth. She is a National Geographic Explorer, a AAAS Leshner Leadership Fellow for Science Engagement, a Pew Marine Conservation Fellow, and was the first ecologist to win the Blavatnik National Award for Life Sciences in 2019. Her research is focused on the impacts of tourism and climate change on Antarctic penguins, and she works closely with the Antarctic Treaty Parties on a range of conservation issues. She has an A.B. in Physics from Princeton University and received her M.A. in Physics and Ph.D. in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University.