Lynker Sponsors CHOW 2023!

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

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 scholars and ESG investors to coastal and marine decision-makers to co-create a whole-field understanding of the opportunity for coastal blue carbon investment.

Lynker’s John McCombs Invited on Advisory Board for Geo Week 2024

Kudos to Lynker’s GIS Team Lead – Land Cover Analyst, John McCombs, for being invited as one of the impressive leaders within the geospatial industry to serve on the Advisory Board for Geo Week 2024. The experts that make up the Board have been tapped to help craft critical programming for Geo Week, the premier event for increased integration between the built environment, advanced airborne/terrestrial technologies, and commercial 3D technologies.

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

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 towers. In short, these vital regions store winter precipitation as snow and release it as snowmelt when spring and summer arrive, benefiting both natural and human systems. Climate change, however, is causing earlier snowmelt, which is out of sync with water resources allocations and the water demands of ecosystems. This paper furthers our understanding of the linkages between the climate, water cycle, and managed infrastructure.

Press Release: Communications Earth and Environment Journal

Lynker Presented at the California Water and Environmental Modeling Forum

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 treatment of groundwater – surface water interactions within the context of water rights administration in California and other states across the western US. Mr. Clark presented a paper on the history of groundwater modeling in Arizona.

Lynker Contributes to Whale Research Across the Hawaiian Archipelago

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.

Learn more about this fascinating research as published in Frontiers in Marine Science found here: Whale Research of the Hawaiian Archipelago

Lynker Co-Authors Ecosystem Status Report in Hawai’i

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 conditions, cumulative human impacts on the nearshore marine environment, and the vulnerability of nearshore marine ecosystems to climate change.

Check out the report here: Ecosystem Status Report

Lynker-Led Publication in AGU Journal

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 in monitoring precipitation phase at air temperatures near freezing. These data indicate that improvements can be made in water resources prediction if we can better leverage novel observation types and networks. Those interested can contribute to the project by heading to https://www.rainorsnow.org for more information.

Published article: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022EA002714

 

 

 

Lynker Wins NOAA IOOS Coastal Modeling Cloud Sandbox Contract!

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 Welcomes New VP of Solutioning & Architecture, Kevin Donnelly!

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 advised CIOs at multiple companies and agencies. He both develops and delivers on the strategies and architectures he creates.  We are very excited to have Kevin join our Lynker team!