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100 lab coats track urban heat in houston
100 community scientists flood houston streets to track where it's the hottest in hopes to inform climate mitigation plans. keep reading
valerie yurk
george washington university
contributorvalerie yurk is a third-year journalism major at george washington university. after volunteering in a biology lab freshman year, yurk was drawn to science reporting. last semester, she studied abroad in prague, czech republic where she interned at transitions online, a prague-based publication covering post-soviet countries. she currently is a reporter for gw hatchet, covering the metro beat.
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