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.
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.Read More »Atmospheric Sciences
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.Read More »Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
An artist’s impulse to recreate natural landscapes leads to fiery scientific explorations that elucidate the behavior of erupting lava and the solid shapes it becomes.Read More »Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
New research shows that increased levels of carbon dioxide in the oceans cause changes that alter key nutrients essential to the reproduction of animals low on the food web.Read More »
