Erin Lewis
Science ReporterErin Lewis is a science reporter at Utah Public Radio and a PhD Candidate in the biology department at Utah State University. She is passionate about fostering curiosity and communicating science to the public. At USU she studies how anthropogenic disturbances are impacting wildlife, particularly the effects of tourism-induced dietary shifts in endangered Bahamian Rock Iguana populations. In her free time she enjoys reading, painting and getting outside with her dog, Hazel.
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Artificial intelligence emerged as a theme at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, addressing what it can reveal about humans.
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The Great Salt Lake Strike Team, gave an update this month on their work to get more water into the shrinking lake, highlighting a need for a multi-year approach.
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Utah’s healthcare system has seen drastic reductions in opioid prescriptions in recent years and is honoring this with an installation at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden.
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A new initiative by Utah-based communications company Sorenson, called the Sound Off Project, is seeking to increase awareness and help for veterans facing hearing-loss.
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A USU Plants, Soils and Climate professor was recently awarded a major USDA grant to study plant-growth bacteria in increasingly high-salt and drought conditions.
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Swainson’s hawks migrate all the way to Argentina, where they spend the winter months before beginning their migration back in the spring.
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The fourth biannual survey of the Intermountain West’s shorebirds took place in August, seeing numbers on par with surveys taken in the 1980s.
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The porous landscape makes it difficult to predict how much water makes it to mountain rivers and valley groundwater.
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Weather patterns across the world drive movement of pollution and wildfire smoke that continues to greatly impact local communities.
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In a recent survey, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources found Gunnison Island to be abandoned by American White Pelicans. Erin Lewis interviews fellow reporter and pelican researcher Aimee Van Tatenhove on the site.