Lyndsay joined JoVE as the editor of the Environment section in 2016 following a position as a postdoctoral researcher in the Earth and Planetary Sciences department at Washington University in St. Louis. She received a B.A. in Chemistry at Whitman College and completed her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at Colorado State University. During her Ph.D., Lyndsay studied arsenic and uranium biogeochemistry in mine tailing sediments. She continued her research on uranium geochemistry, primarily using synchrotron-based X-ray techniques, during her postdoc.