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Nanci Bompey, assistant director of AGU’s media relations department

N. Bompey

Nanci Bompey is director of media relations for AGU’s Communications, Marketing and Media Relations department and a cohost and producer of AGU’s podcast Third Pod from the Sun. Prior to coming to AGU in 2013, Nanci was a managing editor at FDA Week, a weekly publication covering the Food and Drug Administration in Washington, D.C., and a health and environment reporter at the Asheville Citizen-Times in North Carolina. Nanci’s reporting has been recognized by the North Carolina Press Association and the Education Writers Association, and she was a National Press Foundation 2012–2013 Paul Miller Fellow. She has also worked as a chemist at a pharmaceutical company in New Jersey. Nanci holds a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Colgate University.

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Podcast: Discovering Europe’s History Through Its Timbers

Nanci Bompey, assistant director of AGU’s media relations department by N. Bompey 27 January 202022 November 2021

An analysis of timber used to construct buildings in Europe hundreds of years ago is giving scientists and historians new insights into the region’s history from the 13th to 17th centuries.

A woman outfitted in climbing gear stands on a dirty glacier.
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Podcast: A Nuclear Legacy Buried in Ice

Nanci Bompey, assistant director of AGU’s media relations department by N. Bompey 18 November 201928 October 2022

The radioactive remains of nuclear testing during the Cold War and from nuclear disasters like Chernobyl are still with us and can be found in some of the remotest glaciers on Earth.

Physical world map showing the tectonic plate boundaries with their movement vectors and selected hot spots
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Podcast: Plate Tectonics, the Theory That Changed Earth Science

Nanci Bompey, assistant director of AGU’s media relations department by N. Bompey 22 October 20194 October 2022

Third Pod from the Sun talks with pioneering geophysicist Xavier Le Pichon about what it was like to be a young scientist challenging deeply held theories.

Aerial photo of large wind turbines on a cloudy mountaintop
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AGU and Eos are “Covering Climate Now”

Heather Goss, AGU PublisherNanci Bompey, assistant director of AGU’s media relations department by Heather Goss and N. Bompey 11 September 20193 April 2023

We’re joining with over 200 other news outlets and organizations in a weeklong initiative to prove the power of journalism in telling “the defining story of our time.”

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Podcast: Apollo Moon Rocks

Nanci Bompey, assistant director of AGU’s media relations department by N. Bompey 15 July 201917 June 2022

In the latest episode of its Centennial series, AGU’s Third Pod from the Sun interviews the curator of the Apollo Moon rocks.

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Podcast: Uncovering the Ozone Hole

Nanci Bompey, assistant director of AGU’s media relations department by N. Bompey 22 January 20193 June 2024

In the latest episode of its special series, AGU’s Third Pod from the Sun features scientists whose work found the source of a hole in the sky.

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Scientist's Field Season Ends with Nepal Quake

Nanci Bompey, assistant director of AGU’s media relations department by N. Bompey 12 May 20158 December 2022

A graduate student studying tectonics found himself caught in a disaster at the end of fieldwork in the Himalayas.

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Open Records Laws Increasingly Used to Harass Scientists

Nanci Bompey, assistant director of AGU’s media relations department by N. Bompey 18 March 201521 December 2022

A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists says that scientists and universities need to be prepared to respond to broad open records requests.

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Fall Meeting Science Makes Headlines

Nanci Bompey, assistant director of AGU’s media relations department by N. Bompey 9 February 201519 May 2023

Top stories at the 2014 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting include new findings about methane on Mars, the warming Arctic, and the California drought.

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