Audronė Galvonaitė

Audronė Galvonaitė (born 21 September 1949) is a Lithuanian geographer, meteorologist, doctor of physical sciences and a popularizer of meteorological science.

Biography Galvonaitė was born in Anykščiai, Lithuania, to Vytautas Galvonas and Stasė Padskocmaitė-Galvonienė. The family lived in several Estonian cities before returning to Anykščiai, where she completed elementary and secondary school. In 1967, she began studying at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Vilnius University and graduated with a degree in geography in 1972. For one year, she taught geography at a school in Mickūnai (Anykščiai district). Beginning in 1993, she worked at the Institute of Physics and Mathematics at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, 1977–1992, first as an engineer and later as a research associate. Since 1992, she has led the Climatology and Methodology Department of the Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service.

Galvonaitė has been an active popularizer of meteorological science by contributing to radio shows, sharing scientific information on the Internet and lecturing in local communities. Since 2019, she has been a climate and weather commentator for the Lithuanian TV program "Panorama." At the Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service, she was responsible for the installation of the historical exposition of meteorology.

Since 1973, she has lived in Vilnius.

Selected works

Galvonaitė, Audronė. "Lietuvos hidrometeorologijos tarnybos prie Aplinkos ministerijos Klimatologijos skyrius: Vidutinės klimatinių rodiklių reikšmės Lietuvoje 1981–2010 m." Climate averages for Lithuania 2010 (1981): 2013. Galvonaitė, Audronė, Monika Misiūnienė, Donatas Valiukas, and Marija S. Buitkuvienė. "Lithuanian climate." Lithuanian service of hidrometeorology: Vilnius 180 (2007). Lukšienė, Benedikta, Danutė Marčiulionienė, Andrej Rožkov, Arūnas Gudelis, Elis Holm, and Audronė Galvonaitė. "Distribution of artificial gamma-ray emitting radionuclide activity concentration in the top soil in the vicinity of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant and other regions in Lithuania." Science of the total environment 439 (2012): 96–105. Ozolinčius, Remigijus, Edmundas Lekevičius, Vidas Stakėnas, Audronė Galvonaitė, Arūnas Samas, and Donatas Valiukas. "Lithuanian forests and climate change: possible effects on tree species composition." European Journal of Forest Research 133 (2014): 51–60.