Lab members

Heather Lynch – Associate Professor Ecology & Evolution Department (CV)      (email: heather.lynch AT stonybrook.edu)

Prior to arriving at Stony Brook:

  • Assistant Research Scientist (2008-2011) University of Maryland
  • Post-doc (2007-2008) University of Maryland (with Dr. William Fagan)
  • Ph.D. 2006 Harvard University (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; adviser Dr. Paul Moorcroft)
  • A.M. 2004 Harvard University
  • A.B. 2000 Princeton University

Ph.D. students


Maureen Lynch – website
Ecology, behavior, and life history drivers of population resiliency in Pygoscelis papua

Michael Schrimpf – website
Avian communities, coloniality, and habitat across the Scotia Arc

Catherine Foley – website
Human impacts on subantarctic ecosystems and mesopredator abundance
Alex Borowicz: Mobility, Competition, and Scales of Overlap among Antarctic Krill-Predators
Rachael Herman: Range expansion, colonization, and gene flow in a pioneering seabird species

Bento Goncalves
Inferring Antarctic pack-ice seal population dynamics from satellite imagery
Emma Talis

Lab Alumni

Casey Youngflesh (former PhD student; now at the University of Connecticut)

Phil McDowall (former PhD student; now at Google)

Chandi Witharana (former post-doc; now at the University of Connecticut)

Chris Che-Castaldo (former post-doc; now at the Mount St. Helens Institute)

Grant Humphries (former post-doc; now at Black bawks Data Science)

M.A. Alumni

Jeffrey Chan

Allee effects in emperor penguins

Nicole Bender

Spatiotemporal dynamics of Antarctic tourism

Undergraduate Alumni

Lisa Ferguson (Class of 2015)

Matt DePietro (Class of 2015)

Christina Leung (Class of 2014)

 

High School Alumni

Reid Biondo: Neural networks for understanding seal distributions

Erin Burke (now attending Claremont McKenna): Life history strategies in seabirds and its impact on conservation

Andrea Dahl (Now attending Stanford University): Formation and change of vocal dialects in captive gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) populations

Caroline Biondo (Now attending the University of Virginia): Are stone stealing dynamics in a penguin colony consistent with predictions from game theory?

Ryan Burke (Now attending Brown University): Using camera trap methods to study the reproductive success of penguins

William Engellenner (Now Attending Northwestern University): A 15-year longitudinal study of the impact of marine ecotourism on Antarctic penguin populations