Lynn is a doctoral candidate with the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and holds a B.S. in Environmental Science from Sheldon Jackson College (2003) in Alaska and a PGDipSci in Marine Science from the University of Otago (2007). Lynn has done extensive work with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center on invasive marine species in Alaska, and is currently collaborating on a project that measures rates of predation on settling plates in North and South America. After working with U.S. Bureau of Ocean Management (BOEM) partners to conduct resurveys of historic intertidal sites in southeast Alaska established by the early 19th century ecologist Ed Ricketts, Lynn decided to develop her thesis on Peruvian intertidal ecology by forming a partnership between U. Aberdeen and Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. She is deriving methodology in use by the BOEM’s Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network (MARINe) in a best-effort to collect data that will be used to measure biodiversity in three regions of the Peruvian coast, including in Reserva Punta San Juan. Lynn has just completed her second of three seasons of intertidal fieldwork and her objective is to provide the Reserve with a marine alga herbarium catalogue, which will benefit future marine intertidal research projects.