National Geographic Live: Penguins of Antarctica

Tuesday, March 2, 7 p.m. 
Weis Center Concert Hall

Trek alongside penguins at the bottom of the world with ecologist Heather Lynch.

Antarctica's name alone conjures imagery of the harshest environment on Earth, but the continent is more than its monochromatic color scheme of snow and ice. We go on assignment to the frozen continent with quantitative ecologist and National Geographic Explorer Heather Lynch. Meet the many species of penguins that waddle and swim through the freezing water, along with an abundance of other life, on a journey to the bottom of the world.

As a quantitative ecologist, Lynch is dedicated to understanding the population dynamics of Antarctic wildlife, with a particular focus on Antarctic penguins. She has more than a decade of field experience on the continent and is an associate professor at Stony Brook University with a joint appointment in the Department of Ecology & Evolution and the Institute for Advanced Computational Science. Lynch serves as the principal investigator for a large, multi-institution National Science Foundation (NSF) award, received an NSF CAREER Award for her work on the spatial dynamics of Antarctic penguins and was elected an early career fellow of the Ecological Society of America. Lynch has a bachelor's and a master's in physics from Princeton University, and Harvard University, respectively, and a Ph.D. in organismic and evolutionary biology from Harvard.

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