ALT Image: Smiling headshot of a light skinned woman with short dark hair and dark eyes wearing glasses in front of trees. Text: Heather Lynch, IACS Endowed Chair for Ecology & Evolution, Stony Brook University Heather Lynch is a quantitative ecologist whose research focuses on the population dynamics of Antarctic wildlife. Lynch has pioneered the use of satellite imagery for studying the distribution and abundance of Antarctic seabirds and published the first Antarctic-wide satellite-based surveys of both Adélie penguins and Antarctic petrels. More recently, her research group has been developing computer vision-based tools for annotating satellite imagery, for penguins, pack-ice seals, and whales. She co-leads an NSF-funded program to train graduate students to work at the science-policy interface. Her work has been covered extensively in the media, and she engages K-12 students and citizen scientists to help search for undiscovered penguin colonies using publicly available satellites.