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Lauren Lipuma
As a public information specialist and writer at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2015–2021, Lauren Lipuma communicated new Earth and space science research findings published in AGU journals and presented at AGU meetings to the press and public, primarily through written and multimedia content.
Lauren holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in biomedical engineering from Tulane University. She previously held a position as a staff writer for a monthly medical magazine, has worked in wildlife conservation, and worked for more than 5 years at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, N.Y., where she studied the immune response to infectious diseases and established a new lab devoted entirely to the study of the human microbiome.
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Podcast: The Unusual Relationship Between Climate and Pandemics
Two recent studies show how climate affects human pandemics and how pandemics, in turn, alter the environment.
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World’s Deepest Freshwater Cave May Be a Kilometer Deep
The Czech Republic’s Hranice Abyss is more than twice as deep as researchers thought.
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Podcast: Instruments of Unusual Size
Rumbling volcanoes act like giant musical instruments that researchers can study to better monitor eruptions.
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Podcast: Paradise Lost
Nuclear bomb tests conducted during the Cold War turned an idyllic tropical isle into a radioactive ship graveyard.
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Podcast: Exhuming a Buried Piece of American History
Scientists are using grave soil to reconstruct the lives of enslaved Africans in colonial New York.
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Podcast: Night of the Killer Smog
In the latest episode of its Centennial series, AGU’s Third Pod from the Sun tells the story of two air quality disasters that served as catalysts for clean air regulations in the mid-20th century.
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Podcast: A Tale of Two Journeys
In the latest episode of its Centennial series, AGU’s Third Pod from the Sun tells the story of two parties journeying to the South Pole in 1911 and the extraordinary impact that weather had on their travels.
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Podcast: Toxic City Under the Ice
In the latest episode of its Centennial series, AGU’s Third Pod from the Sun recounts the history of a top-secret military project with unintended environmental consequences.
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Podcast: How the Cold War Drove Atmospheric Science
In the first episode of a special series, AGU’s Third Pod from the Sun traces a path from nuclear fallout detectors to modern-day meteorology instruments.