Amanda obtained her Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of Melbourne in 1993. Her research focuses on the intersection between atmospheric science and environmental governance, with particular interests in the Arctic as a place that expresses convergences of rapid change in natural and human systems.
Amanda developed the first Arctic regional climate system model in 1993, won the Priestly Medal in 2008, and is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research, and the World Academy of Art and Science. She has been an editor at Journal of Climate; Weather, Climate and Society; and Science Advances. At the United Nations World Meteorological Organization, she is the chair of the Research Board.
Her most recent book is co-authored with human geographer Siri Veland and is entitled Urgency in the Anthropocene (MIT Press, 2018).
Amanda Lynch was the founding director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society.
| Bischoff-Mattson Z, Lynch AH. "Integrative Governance of Environmental Water in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin: Evolving Challenges and Emerging Pathways." Environmental management, vol. 60, no. 1, 2017, pp. 41-56. |
| Johnson, Noor, Alessa, Lilian, Behe, Carolina, Danielsen, Finn, Gearheard, Shari, Gofman-Wallingford, Victoria, Kliskey, Andrew, Krümmel, Eva-Maria, Lynch, Amanda, Mustonen, Tero, Pulsifer, Peter, Svoboda, Michael. "The Contributions of Community-Based Monitoring and Traditional Knowledge to Arctic Observing Networks: Reflections on the State of the Field." ARCTIC, vol. 68, no. 5, 2015, pp. 28. |
| VELAND, SIRI, LYNCH, AMANDA, BISCHOFF-MATTSON, ZACHARY, JOACHIM, LEE, JOHNSON, NOOR. "All Strings Attached: Negotiating Relationships of Geographic Information Science." Geographical Research, vol. 52, no. 3, 2014, pp. 296-308. |
| Beringer, Jason, Hutley, Lindsay B., Abramson, David, Arndt, Stefan K., Briggs, Peter, Bristow, Mila, Canadell, Josep G., Cernusak, Lucas A., Eamus, Derek, Edwards, Andrew C., Evans, Bradley J., Fest, Benedikt, Goergen, Klaus, Grover, Samantha P., Hacker, Jorg, Haverd, Vanessa, Kanniah, Kasturi, Livesley, Stephen J., Lynch, Amanda, Maier, Stefan, Moore, Caitlin, Raupach, Michael, Russell-Smith, Jeremy, Scheiter, Simon, Tapper, Nigel J., Uotila, Petteri. "Fire in Australian savannas: from leaf to landscape." Global Change Biology, vol. 21, no. 1, 2014, pp. 62-81. |
| Lynch, Amanda H., Adler, Carolina E., Howard, Nicholas C. "Policy diffusion in arid Basin water management: a Q method approach in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia." Regional Environmental Change, vol. 14, no. 4, 2014, pp. 1601-1613. |
| Tsukernik, Maria, Lynch, Amanda H. "Atmospheric Meridional Moisture Flux over the Southern Ocean: A Story of the Amundsen Sea." Journal of Climate, vol. 26, no. 20, 2013, pp. 8055-8064. |
| LYNCH, AMANDA H. "Methods for Indigenous Land-Use and Occupancy Mapping." Conservation Biology, vol. 27, no. 5, 2013, pp. 1130-1131. |
| Grafton, R. Quentin, Pittock, Jamie, Davis, Richard, Williams, John, Fu, Guobin, Warburton, Michele, Udall, Bradley, McKenzie, Ronnie, Yu, Xiubo, Che, Nhu, Connell, Daniel, Jiang, Qiang, Kompas, Tom, Lynch, Amanda, Norris, Richard, Possingham, Hugh, Quiggin, John. "Global insights into water resources, climate change and governance." Nature Climate change, vol. 3, no. 4, 2012, pp. 315-321. |
| Lynch, Amanda H., Griggs, David, Joachim, Lee, Walker, Jackie. "The role of the Yorta Yorta people in clarifying the common interest in sustainable management of the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia." Policy Sci, vol. 46, no. 2, 2012, pp. 109-123. |
| Uotila, P., Vihma, T., Pezza, A. B., Simmonds, I., Keay, K., Lynch, A. H. "Relationships between Antarctic cyclones and surface conditions as derived from high-resolution numerical weather prediction data." J. Geophys. Res., vol. 116, no. D7, 2011. |
| Roman, Carolina E., Lynch, Amanda H., Dominey-Howes, Dale. "What is the Goal? Framing the Climate Change Adaptation Question through a Problem-Oriented Approach." Wea. Climate Soc., vol. 3, no. 1, 2011, pp. 16-30. |
| Alexander, Lisa V., Uotila, Petteri, Nicholls, Neville, Lynch, Amanda. "A New Daily Pressure Dataset for Australia and Its Application to the Assessment of Changes in Synoptic Patterns during the Last Century." Journal of Climate, vol. 23, no. 5, 2010, pp. 1111-1126. |
| Lynch, Amanda H., Brunner, Ronald D. "Learning from Climate Variability: Adaptive Governance and the Pacific ENSO Applications Center." Wea. Climate Soc., vol. 2, no. 4, 2010, pp. 311-319. |
| Roman, Carolina E., Lynch, Amanda H., Dominey-Howes, Dale. "Uncovering the Essence of the Climate Change Adaptation Problem—A Case Study of the Tourism Sector at Alpine Shire, Victoria, Australia." Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development, vol. 7, no. 3, 2010, pp. 237-252. |
| Uotila, P., Pezza, A. B., Cassano, J. J., Keay, K., Lynch, A. H. "A comparison of low pressure system statistics derived from a high-resolution NWP output and three reanalysis products over the Southern Ocean." J. Geophys. Res., vol. 114, no. D17, 2009. |
| Tryhorn, Lee M., Lynch, Amanda H. "Climate change adaptation in the Alpine Shire of Australia: a decision process appraisal." Policy Sci, vol. 43, no. 2, 2009, pp. 105-127. |
| Alexander, Lisa V., Tapper, Nigel, Zhang, Xuebin, Fowler, Hayley J., Tebaldi, Claudia, Lynch, Amanda. "Climate extremes: progress and future directions." International Journal of Climatology, vol. 29, no. 3, 2009, pp. 317-319. |
| Handorf, Dörthe, Dethloff, Klaus, Marshall, Andrew G., Lynch, Amanda. "Climate Regime Variability for Past and Present Time Slices Simulated by the Fast Ocean Atmosphere Model." Journal of Climate, vol. 22, no. 1, 2009, pp. 58-70. |
| Doherty, Sarah J., Bojinski, Stephan, Goodrich, David, Henderson-Sellers, Ann, Noone, Kevin, Bindoff, Nathaniel L., Church, John A., Hibbard, Kathy A., Karl, Thomas R., Kajfez-Bogataj, Lucka, Lynch, Amanda H., Parker, David E., Thorne, Peter W., Prentice, I. Colin, Ramaswamy, Venkatachalam, Saunders, Roger W., Stafford Smith, Mark, Steffen, Konrad, Stocker, Thomas F., Trenberth, Kevin E., Verstraete, Michel M., Zwiers, Francis W. "Lessons Learned from IPCC AR4: Scientific Developments Needed to Understand, Predict, and Respond to Climate Change." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 90, no. 4, 2009, pp. 497-513. |
| Brown, J., Lynch, A. H., Marshall, A. G. "Variability of the Indian Ocean Dipole in coupled model paleoclimate simulations." J. Geophys. Res., vol. 114, no. D11, 2009. |
| Lynch, Amanda H., Lestak, Leanne R., Uotila, Petteri, Cassano, Elizabeth N., Xie, Lian. "A Factorial Analysis of Storm Surge Flooding in Barrow, Alaska." Mon. Wea. Rev., vol. 136, no. 3, 2008, pp. 898-912. |
| Tryhorn, Lee, Lynch, Amanda, Abramson, Rebecca, Parkyn, Kevin. "On the Meteorological Mechanisms Driving Postfire Flash Floods: A Case Study." Mon. Wea. Rev., vol. 136, no. 5, 2008, pp. 1778-1791. |
| Marshall, A. G., Lynch, A. H. "The sensitivity of the Australian summer monsoon to climate forcing during the late Quaternary." J. Geophys. Res., vol. 113, no. D11, 2008. |
| Lynch, Amanda H., Tryhorn, Lee, Abramson, Rebecca. "Working at the Boundary: Facilitating Interdisciplinarity in Climate Change Adaptation Research." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 89, no. 2, 2008, pp. 169-179. |
| Wyser, K., Jones, C. G., Du, P., Girard, E., Willén, U., Cassano, J., Christensen, J. H., Curry, J. A., Dethloff, K., Haugen, J.-E., Jacob, D., Køltzow, M., Laprise, R., Lynch, A., Pfeifer, S., Rinke, A., Serreze, M., Shaw, M. J., Tjernström, M., Zagar, M. "An evaluation of Arctic cloud and radiation processes during the SHEBA year: simulation results from eight Arctic regional climate models." Clim Dyn, vol. 30, no. 2-3, 2007, pp. 203-223. |
| Uotila, P., Lynch, A. H., Cassano, J. J., Cullather, R. I. "Changes in Antarctic net precipitation in the 21st century based on Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) model scenarios." J. Geophys. Res., vol. 112, no. D10, 2007. |
| Wu, Wanli, Lynch, Amanda H., Drobot, Sheldon, Maslanik, James, McGuire, A. David, Herzfeld, Ute. "Comparative Analysis of the Western Arctic Surface Climate among Observations and Model Simulations." Earth Interactions, vol. 11, no. 6, 2007, pp. 1-24. |
| Lynch, Amanda H., Brunner, Ronald D. "Context and climate change: an integrated assessment for Barrow, Alaska." Climatic Change, vol. 82, no. 1-2, 2007, pp. 93-111. |
| Lynch, Amanda H., Abramson, David, Görgen, Klaus, Beringer, Jason, Uotila, Petteri. "Influence of savanna fire on Australian monsoon season precipitation and circulation as simulated using a distributed computing environment." Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 34, no. 20, 2007. |
| Cassano, John J., Uotila, Petteri, Lynch, Amanda H., Cassano, Elizabeth N. "Predicted changes in synoptic forcing of net precipitation in large Arctic river basins during the 21st century." J. Geophys. Res., vol. 112, no. G4, 2007. |
| Huntington, Henry P., Hamilton, Lawrence C., Nicolson, Craig, Brunner, Ronald, Lynch, Amanda, Ogilvie, Astrid E. J., Voinov, Alexey. "Toward understanding the human dimensions of the rapidly changing arctic system: insights and approaches from five HARC projects." Regional Environmental Change, vol. 7, no. 4, 2007, pp. 173-186. |
| Lynch, Amanda H., Beringer, Jason, Kershaw, Peter, Marshall, Andrew, Mooney, Scott, Tapper, Nigel, Turney, Chris, Van Der Kaars, Sander. "Using the Paleorecord to Evaluate Climate and Fire Interactions in Australia." Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, vol. 35, no. 1, 2007, pp. 215-239. |
| Cassano, John J., Uotila, Petteri, Lynch, Amanda. "Changes in synoptic weather patterns in the polar regions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, part 1: Arctic." International Journal of Climatology, vol. 26, no. 8, 2006, pp. 1027-1049. |
| Lynch, Amanda, Uotila, Petteri, Cassano, John J. "Changes in synoptic weather patterns in the polar regions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, part 2: Antarctic." International Journal of Climatology, vol. 26, no. 9, 2006, pp. 1181-1199. |
| Cassano, EN, Lynch, AH, Cassano, JJ, Koslow, MR. "Classification of synoptic patterns in the western Arctic associated with extreme events at Barrow, Alaska, USA." Climate Research, vol. 30, 2006, pp. 83-97. |
| Abramson, D., Lynch, A., Takemiya, H., Tanimura, Y., Date, S., Nakamura, H., Karpjoo Jeong, None, Suntae Hwang, None, Ji Zhu, None, Zhong-hua Lu, None, Amoreira, C., Baldridge, K., Hurng-Chun Lee, None, Chi-Wei Wang, None, Horng-Liang Shih, None, Molina, T., Wilfred W. Li, None, Arzberger, P.W. "Deploying Scientific Applications to the PRAGMA Grid Testbed: Strategies and Lessons." Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID'06), 2006. |
| Rinke, A., Dethloff, K., Cassano, J. J., Christensen, J. H., Curry, J. A., Du, P., Girard, E., Haugen, J.-E., Jacob, D., Jones, C. G., Køltzow, M., Laprise, R., Lynch, A.H., Pfeifer, S., Serreze, M. C., Shaw, M. J., Tjernström, M., Wyser, K., Žagar, M. "Evaluation of an ensemble of Arctic regional climate models: spatiotemporal fields during the SHEBA year." Clim Dyn, vol. 26, no. 5, 2006, pp. 459-472. |
| Görgen, K., Lynch, A. H., Marshall, A. G., Beringer, J. "Impact of abrupt land cover changes by savanna fire on northern Australian climate." J. Geophys. Res., vol. 111, no. D19, 2006. |
| Marshall, A. G., Lynch, A. H. "Time-slice analysis of the Australian summer monsoon during the late Quaternary using the Fast Ocean Atmosphere Model." J. Quaternary Sci., vol. 21, no. 7, 2006, pp. 789-801. |
| Wu, Wanli, Lynch, Amanda H., Rivers, Aaron. "Estimating the Uncertainty in a Regional Climate Model Related to Initial and Lateral Boundary Conditions." Journal of Climate, vol. 18, no. 7, 2005, pp. 917-933. |
| Hinzman, Larry D., Bettez, Neil D., Bolton, W. Robert, Chapin, F. Stuart, Dyurgerov, Mark B., Fastie, Chris L., Griffith, Brad, Hollister, Robert D., Hope, Allen, Huntington, Henry P., Jensen, Anne M., Jia, Gensuo J., Jorgenson, Torre, Kane, Douglas L., Klein, David R., Kofinas, Gary, Lynch, Amanda H., Lloyd, Andrea H., McGuire, A. David, Nelson, Frederick E., Oechel, Walter C., Osterkamp, Thomas E., Racine, Charles H., Romanovsky, Vladimir E., Stone, Robert S., Stow, Douglas A., Sturm, Matthew, Tweedie, Craig E., Vourlitis, George L., Walker, Marilyn D., Walker, Donald A., Webber, Patrick J., Welker, Jeffrey M., Winker, Kevin S., Yoshikawa, Kenji. "Evidence and Implications of Recent Climate Change in Northern Alaska and Other Arctic Regions." Climatic Change, vol. 72, no. 3, 2005, pp. 251-298. |
| Dethloff, Klaus, Rinke, Annette, Morrison, Hugh, Dorn, Wolfgang, Gerdes, Ruediger, Maslowski, Wieslaw, Kattsov, Vladimir, Lange, Manfred A., Görgen, Klaus, Lynch, Amanda. "Global impacts of Arctic climate processes." Eos Trans. AGU, vol. 86, no. 49, 2005, pp. 509. |
| Brunner, R.D., Lynch, A.H., Pardikes, J.C., Cassano, E.N., Lestak, L.R., Vogel, J.M. "An Arctic Disaster and its Policy Implications." ARCTIC, vol. 57, no. 4, 2004. |
| Lynch, A. H., Curry, J. A., Brunner, R. D., Maslanik, J. A. "Toward an Integrated Assessment of the Impacts of Extreme Wind Events on Barrow, Alaska." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 85, no. 2, 2004, pp. 209-221. |
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | PhD | University of Melbourne |
| 1986 | BS | Monash University |
2018: Presidential Faculty Research Award, Brown University
2017: Fellow of the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research
2015: Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science
2014: Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
2008: Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
2008: Priestly Medal, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
2003: Federation Fellowship, Australian Research Council
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Smith, Laurence | John Atwater and Diana Nelson University Professor of Environmental Studies |
| EEPS 1220 - Climate Extremes and Human Rights: Winter Session in Geneva |
| EEPS 1510 - Introduction to Atmospheric Dynamics |
| EEPS 1615 - Making Connections: The Environmental Policy Process |
| EEPS 1615 - The Environmental Policy Process |
| ENVS 1225 - Arctic Climate and Policy: Winter Session in Bodø |
| ENVS 1615 - Making Connections: The Environmental Policy Process |
| GEOL 1350 - Weather and Climate |
| GEOL 1615 - The Environmental Policy Process |
