Lynker Sponsors 2023 NERRS/NERRA Conference

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Lynker is excited to be a sponsor again this year at the 2023 NERRS/NERRA (National Estuarine Research Reserve Association) Annual Meeting held in Galloway, New Jersey!

Lynker Makes Washington Technology’s Top 50 for the 6th Year!

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Team Lynker makes Washington Technology’s Top 50 Fastest Growing Small Businesses for the sixth year!

Lynker Wins PIFSC Guam & CNMI Biosampling!

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Lynker is excited to have recently been awarded a new ProTech Fisheries task that combines the previously separate PIFSC FRMD Guam and CNMI Bottomfish Management Unit Species (BMUS) Biosampling projects into one contract. Lynker was the incumbent contract holder for the Guam BMUS effort, while Micronesian Environmental Services (MES) has held the CNMI contract for the past several years. We are honored to be transitioning several MES employees to the Lynker family to support the combined initiative that will conduct data and biological sampling collection operations as well as data entry and quality control processing.

Lynker Awarded PIFSC Advancing Bottomfish Assessments Support!

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Lynker wins ProTech Fish task, PIFSC Advancing Bottomfish Assessments Support!

We are proud to be expanding our current support to NOAA Fisheries’ fishery independent survey efforts in Hawaii that provide population level size structured abundance indices for bottomfish populations existing at depths with our recent award to assist with these surveys in the US Pacific Islands territories (Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa). Our team will deploy camera as well as hook-and-line sampling gear.

Lynker’s Alexandria Gillen Awarded Team Member of the Month!

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Congratulations to Lynker’s Education Specialist, Alexandria Gillen (Brake), for being awarded Team Member of the Month for her work at the NOAA Marine Debris Program in Silver Spring, Maryland! Alexandria’s work has played a critical role in improving access to NOAA’s science education resources for educators, students, and families. Recently, Alexandria led the creation of a new digital education resource on the Marine Debris Program website, completed an effort to improve educator access to 160 lessons, and developed education tutorials that focus on a range of ocean pollution topics.

Recognized Weather, Water, & Environment Executive, Scott Rayder, Joins Lynker

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“I am delighted to welcome Scott Rayder in our newly created role as President,” said Joe Linza, Lynker’s Founder & CEO. “With a proven track record of driving growth and innovation, Scott is poised to lead Lynker into a new era of success.”

Scott comes to us with over 20 years of leadership and management experience within the environmental community working on issues important to the country and serving in a variety of positions integrating research and operations activities. Most recently he served as vice president of Leidos leading a team of experts providing operations and services for climate, energy, and environment; projects addressing global challenges and opportunities. Prior positions include serving as the first chief of staff at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from 2001 – 2008 as well as the chair of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System Federal Advisory Committee. Scott was also the executive director of the Alabama Water Institute and led the team that won the largest award in its nearly 200-year history. NOAA named University of Alabama as the recipient of a $360M grant to form the Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology, or CIROH.

Lynker Participates in OCEANS 2023

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Lynker is an exhibitor and presenter at OCEANS 2023 at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center in Biloxi, MS.

Lynker Celebrates 16 Year Anniversary!

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We’re celebrating our 16 year anniversary today at Lynker! Thank you to all who are part of this incredible journey.

Lynker Wins NWS OWP Geospatial Services

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Lynker is thrilled to continue to provide expertise to support The Geo-intelligence Division (GID) and the National Weather Service (NWS) water prediction mission with our contract win of Office of Water Prediction (OWP) Geospatial Services for NOAA NWS. Support includes the development, evaluation and implementation of high resolution, neighborhood scale Flood Inundation Mapping (FIM) capabilities and the supporting enterprise hydrofabric that supports both FIM and the National Water Model.

Lynker Wins NMFS SERO SEFHIER Program

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Lynker wins a ProTech Fisheries task to provide professional and scientific services for SERO’s Sustainable Fisheries Division (SFD) to support the Southeast For-Hire Integrated Electronic Reporting (SEFHIER) program!