Ned Lynas was a co-founder of the parent ORES group, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to conducting minimally intrusive studies on marine mammals and the environment we share with them. Ned directed the St. Lawrence research station in Quebec from 1978 to 2002. During this time he has passed on his passion, love, and respect for the whales to numerous academic and non-academic students from all over the world. Way too early and to our great sadness, Ned has passed away in 2002. His spirit and his legacy will continue and he will be well remembered by many people who have met him.

He did his undergraduate university work at Sir George Williams (Concordia) and Toronto. Following completion of his zoology specialist diploma, he went on to do his graduate (postgraduate) work in behavioural ecology at Knightsbridge, and in situated cognition also at Toronto (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education). He has been an adjunct senior lecturer with the San Francisco State University for the past 12 years, and formerly was an adjunct lecturer at Seneca College (Ontario).

Ned has supervised (or co-supervised) field studies for numerous students, working on undergraduate and graduate theses, in various related marine disciplines from oceanography to whale watching. His personal areas of study included the foraging ecology of rorqual whales, and population, distribution, area utilization, and cultural evolution in minke whales. Ned frequently talked and lectured on the ecology of whales to national and international audiences. He published several papers and presentations most recently at the conferences of the European Cetacean Society in Cork (2000) and Rome (2001).