Lauren Thuringer

Grants and Finance Specialist, Sustainable Ocean Initiative

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Lauren Thuringer is the Grants and Finance Specialist for the Sustainable Ocean Initiative. She works to expand the Ocean programme by overseeing budgets, grants, contracts, and subcontracts for the Sustainable Ocean Initiative.

Prior to joining WRI, Lauren worked in grants management at Challenging Heights, a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to ending child trafficking, reducing child slavery and promoting children's rights in Ghana.

Lauren holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Saskatchewan and a Certificate in Jazz Studies and currently lives in London.

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What Has the Ocean Ever Done for Us? Humanizing the Sustainable Ocean Economy Narrative
by Lauren Thuringer, Nicola Frost and Nireka Weeratunge - September 07, 2020
The global ocean delivers an estimated $2.8 trillion in annual ecosystem services, but that's not all it does. The COVID-19 crisis shows the ocean's importance as part of nature's role in human well-being.
The Ocean Genome Helps Fight Disease: Here's How We Save It
by Ines Aguiar Branco, Lauren Thuringer, Colette Wabnitz, Rachel Wynberg, Henrik Österblom and Robert Blasiak - April 24, 2020
Marine organisms and their genes are rich sources of antiviral compounds. But the ocean genome is at risk, and only some have access to its benefits.

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