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’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’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. […]
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’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 […]
Lynker is excited to win the NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Coastal Modeling Cloud Sandbox contract under ProTech Weather! The Lynker team will be installing and supporting the IOOS Coastal Modeling Cloud Sandbox infrastructure and configuration in the NOAA Cloud environment.
Lynker is thrilled to have our new Vice President of Solutioning & Architecture, Kevin Donnelly, onboard! Kevin comes to us with many years of experience providing IT solutions and services for NOAA, Census, Dept of State, Dept of Homeland Security, DoD, NASA, and private industry. He has been both the CIO and CTO for publicly traded companies, and has […]
The Lynker Team makes a splash at the Coastal GeoTools 2023 conference in Charleston! We were a Silver Sponsor, presenter, and exhibitor. We enjoyed making connections with friends and colleagues and talking about the geospatial technologies we provide NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management.
Lynker is thrilled to be awarded NOAA’s National Weather Service NCEP Central Operations Network Infrastructure Services contract! This contract provides mission critical support of the networks that support the NWS mission by collecting and distributing raw and processed meteorological data and products. All mission critical watches and warnings, which are intended to save life and property, […]
Lynker had an exciting week at AMS 2023 in Denver! We were a Silver Sponsor, we presented 18 times, we were an exhibitor, and we were a DEI sponsor as well as an AMS scholarship sponsor for underserved communitites. Terrific week presenting and making connections!