Karen G. Lloyd

Karen G. Lloyd

Wrigley Chair in Environmental Studies and Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California

Karen G. Lloyd is the Wrigley Chair in Environmental Studies and Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California. Her work has appeared in leading publications such as Nature and Science. Her book Intraterrestrials, which was longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, PEN America, is available now. 

Latest articles by Karen G. Lloyd

A fracture in the earth's crust in the rift valley between the American and Eurasian continental plates in Iceland.

'Maybe they're waiting for something that only happens thousands of years later': The hidden life 'sleeping' deep beneath Earth for millions of years

By Karen G. Lloyd published

Deep inside Earth lies a hidden world of "intraterrestrials" that have been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years — what are they waiting to "wake up" for?

Evolution