Heather Lynch – IACS Endowed Chair in Ecology & Evolution (CV) (email: heather.lynch AT stonybrook.edu)
Prior to coming to 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

Mobility, Competition, and Scales of Overlap among Antarctic Krill-Predators

Range expansion, colonization, and gene flow in a pioneering seabird species

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

Mathematical models for penguin population dynamics and behavior


M.S. students

Lab Alumni
Michael Schrimpf (former PhD student; now a post-doc at the University of Manitoba)
Maureen Lynch (former PhD student; now working for Vermont Fish & Wildlife)
Catherine Foley (former PhD student; now at NOAA)
Casey Youngflesh (former PhD student; now a post-doc at UCLA)
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 an IACS Postdoctoral Fellow)
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
High School Alumni
Sandeepna Eranki: Egg laying contagion among Gentoo penguins
Reid Biondo (now attending the University of Virginia): 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 (attended the University of Virginia): Are stone stealing dynamics in a penguin colony consistent with predictions from game theory?
Ryan Burke (attended Brown University): Using camera trap methods to study the reproductive success of penguins
William Engellenner (attended Northwestern University): A 15-year longitudinal study of the impact of marine ecotourism on Antarctic penguin populations