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Lauren Lipuma

Lauren Lipuma is a public information specialist and writer at the American Geophysical Union (AGU). She communicates 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. Lauren is currently the vice president of the D.C. Science Writers Association.

A portrait of Leland Melvin, NASA astronaut and former NFL wide receiver
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Podcast: From Athlete to Astronaut

by Lauren Lipuma 7 December 202026 January 2022

Leland Melvin proves that dedication and hard work can help anyone overcome the odds.

Image of American Expeditionary Force victims of the Spanish flu at a U.S. Army Camp Hospital in Aix-les-Bains, France, in 1918
Posted inNews

Podcast: The Unusual Relationship Between Climate and Pandemics

by Lauren Lipuma 24 September 202010 November 2022

Two recent studies show how climate affects human pandemics and how pandemics, in turn, alter the environment.

The entrance to the Hranice Abyss in the eastern Czech Republic.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

World’s Deepest Freshwater Cave May Be a Kilometer Deep

by Lauren Lipuma 8 September 202013 October 2022

The Czech Republic’s Hranice Abyss is more than twice as deep as researchers thought.

A view of Ecuador’s Cotopaxi volcano
Posted inNews

Podcast: Instruments of Unusual Size

by Lauren Lipuma 15 June 20202 May 2022

Rumbling volcanoes act like giant musical instruments that researchers can study to better monitor eruptions.

Black-and-white image of a nuclear bomb exploding from underwater
Posted inNews

Podcast: Paradise Lost

by Lauren Lipuma 6 April 202028 September 2021

Nuclear bomb tests conducted during the Cold War turned an idyllic tropical isle into a radioactive ship graveyard.

Carter Clinton and Fatimah Jackson smile while standing at a long table at a research lab.
Posted inNews

Podcast: Exhuming a Buried Piece of American History

by Lauren Lipuma 18 February 20208 October 2021

Scientists are using grave soil to reconstruct the lives of enslaved Africans in colonial New York.

Black-and-white photo of a motorcycle and double-decker bus in thick fog
Posted inNews

Podcast: Night of the Killer Smog

by Lauren Lipuma 24 June 201917 January 2023

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.

Black-and-white photo of unsmiling white explorers at the South Pole
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Podcast: A Tale of Two Journeys

by Lauren Lipuma 20 May 201920 April 2022

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.

Trucks assemble outside an icy entrance to Camp Century in Greenland.
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Podcast: Toxic City Under the Ice

by Lauren Lipuma 18 March 201924 January 2023

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.

Operation Crossroads nuclear test Bikini Atoll
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Podcast: How the Cold War Drove Atmospheric Science

by Lauren Lipuma 16 January 201910 January 2022

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.

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