Amanda Lynnes

Amanda is the Director of Environment and Science Coordination at IAATO. Her role is to support IAATO in meeting environmental obligations arising from its mission, the Antarctic Treaty System and other international agreements. This includes coordinating research and monitoring efforts, and citizen science. Amanda attends the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting with IAATO which is an Invited Expert to the meeting. She is the IAATO representative on the Committee for Environmental Protection.

Her Antarctic career began in 1996 with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) as a penguin biologist and field assistant for the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR). She established long-term seabird monitoring projects at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, and at Port Lockroy on the Antarctic Peninsula. Her research involved studying the foraging behaviour of Adelie and chinstrap penguins, the findings of which fed into the development of the first CCAMLR Marine Protected Area in Antarctica.

Current research projects / interests:

• SCAR / IAATO Systematic Conservation Plan;
• Southern Ocean UN Decade;
• Vessel/whale interactions / CEP related actions / Seabird monitoring