Jean Lynch-Stieglitz is a paleoceanographer known for her research on reconstructing changes in ocean circulation over the last 100,000 years.
degrees in physics and geology from Duke University[2] and for two years she worked as an oceanographer at the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory.
[3] After two years as a postdoctoral scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in 1996 she returned to New York where she joined the faculty of the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory.
[4] In 2015 Lynch-Stieglitz was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science "for bringing physical oceanography approaches to the study of transient circulation changes during ice ages, providing a window into the ocean’s interaction with today’s climate change.
[10][11][12] Her research also extends to regions where ice alters the exchange of carbon dioxide between atmosphere and ocean in glacial periods,[13] and work in the Pacific Ocean where she has examined sea surface temperatures from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present.