In 1979, at the age of 32, Dr Wayne Lynch left a career in emergency medicine to work full-time as a science writer and wildlife photographer. Today he is the author of award winning documentaries and books, including A is for Arctic, Bears, Bears, Bears, Penguins! and Loons as well as being a popular guest lecturer. His photography credits include hundreds of magazine covers, thousands of calendar shots and tens of thousands of images published in more than 30 countries.
Lynch is a Fellow of the internationally recognized Explorers Club, headquartered in New York City. Fellows are people who have actively participated in exploration or have substantially enlarge the scope of human knowledge through scientific achievements with published reports, books and articles. In 1997, Lynch was also elected as a Fellow to the Arctic Institute of North America, in recognition of his contributions to the knowledge of polar and subpolar regions.