Lindsey is a Professor at Montana State University in Bozeman Montana, where she has a research lab that studies interactions and feedbacks between geomorphology, hydrology, and freshwater organisms, with a focus on aquatic invertebrates such as caddisflies, stoneflies, and crayfish. Lindsey received her Bachelor of Science degree in Geology-Biology from Brown University in Rhode Island. She attended graduate school at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology Department. After receiving her Ph.D. from UCSB in 2013, she held a Post-Doctoral position at the Stroud Water Research Center, a non-profit research and educational institute in Pennsylvania. After joining the faculty at MSU, the Albertson Lab has developed research programs in a variety of freshwater ecosystems in the Rocky Mountain West, including Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park, the Madison and Gallatin Rivers in southwestern Montana, and headwater streams over 10,000 feet elevation in Colorado.