Entries by Kathy O'Day

Lynker’s Dr. Vargas Recognized as One of the Incredible Women Advancing Hurricane Research

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Lynker’s Hurricane Modeler, Maria F. Aristizabal Vargas, Ph.D., has been recognized as one of the seven incredible women advancing hurricane research and forecasting. Working at NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center, Maria develops coupled forecast models to better represent how the ocean drives hurricanes, including their track and intensity. These models are critical for forecasting storms as they estimate […]

Lynker Staff Awarded ESIP Lab Award!

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Lynker staff Rachel Bash and Mike Johnson, PhD  won an Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Lab Award to tackle the lack of standard methods to find and access Earth system data related to water, wildfire, and the environment. They are building an open-source project that federates thousands of data sources in a common catalog and will […]

Lynker Sponsors CHOW 2023!

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Lynker attends Capitol Hill Ocean Week in DC! We were a Supporter Sponsor at the Oceans Award Gala, and our team attended the NOAA Sustainable Seafood Celebration. We enjoyed connecting with colleagues and friends. Learn more about CHOW2023 at: Capitol Hill Ocean Week 2023

Lynker Presents at First Sea Grant Blue Carbon Law Symposium

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Lynker’s Program Director, Gyami Shrestha, presented at the first Sea Grant Blue Carbon Law Symposium held at the University of Georgia. She was invited to share her climate change policy perspectives and spoke of innovations and opportunities for improved measurements, verification, and governance in this sector. This event brought together a host of experts from legal […]

Lynker’s Lead Hydrologist Co-Authored Paper in Communications Earth & Environment Journal

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Lynker’s Lead Hydrologist, Keith Jennings, PhD, co-authored a paper on “Recent Decreases in Snow Water Storage in Western North America” published in the Communications Earth & Environment Journal. The work, led by University of Vermont Postdoctoral Researcher Kate Hale, examines how climate change threatens the ability of western North American mountains to act as water […]

Lynker Presented at the California Water and Environmental Modeling Forum

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Lynker’s Dr. McCord Jim and Justin Clark presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the California Water and Environmental Modeling Forum (#CWEMF) in Folsom Lake, California. The theme for 2023, “Modeling for Integrated Water Management,” was well attended by water modeling experts from across the US. Dr. McCord presented his paper that compared and contrasted […]

Lynker Contributes to Whale Research Across the Hawaiian Archipelago

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Lynker’s Research Specialist, Eden Zang, along with many others, is making important contributions with new research asking the question: Does more than one population of humpback whales occupy the Hawaiian archipelago?  Their research uses sound monitoring and a remotely operated surface vehicle equipped with sound recorders to track the presence of koholā throughout the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. […]

Lynker Co-Authors Ecosystem Status Report in Hawai’i

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Two Lynker employees, Dr. Erica K. Towle, Ph.D. and Dr. Mary E. Allen, are co-authors on the recently published “2022 Ecosystem Status Report Highlights Climate and Ecosystem Change in Hawaiʻi.” This interdisciplinary report includes ecosystem indicators on human connections, commercial landings by small boat commercial fishers, coral reefs and reef fish, climate change and ocean […]

Lynker-Led Publication in AGU Journal

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Lynker’s Lead Hydrologist, Keith Jennings, PhD, co-authored an innovative research paper that was just published in the AGU journal “Earth and Space Science” called Crowdsourced Data Highlight Precipitation Phase Partitioning Variability in Rain-Snow Transition Zone. In this paper, crowdsourced observations of rain and snow—reported with a web-based app—highlight the shortcomings of computer models and remote sensing platforms […]