Kerry Klein
Associate Editor and ReporterKerry Klein is an award-winning reporter whose coverage of public health, air pollution, drinking water access and wildfires in the San Joaquin Valley has been featured on NPR, KQED, Science Friday and Kaiser Health News. Her work has earned numerous regional Edward R. Murrow and Golden Mike Awards and has been recognized by the Association of Health Care Journalists and Society of Environmental Journalists. Her podcast Escape From Mammoth Pool was named a podcast “listeners couldn’t get enough of in 2021” by the radio aggregator NPR One.
After growing up near Boston, Kerry graduated from McGill University with a B.S. in geology. When she began working as an exploration geologist and geothermal energy analyst, radio reporting was a distant and unlikely future. But she found new significance in media while hosting a talk show about science at a Montreal public radio station and later while producing a podcast for Science Magazine. She later returned to school to study science journalism at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
When she’s not in front of a computer or microphone, Kerry can be found biking to the rock climbing gym, practicing her violin, sewing unnecessary but very cute articles of clothing, or wandering the Sierra foothills with her husband and daughter.
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Cows in the Central Valley are dying so quickly from bird flu that they are overwhelming standard protocols meant to dispose of carcasses, according to a dairy industry representative.
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At least two dairy workers infected were from different farms, and were showing mild symptoms. They were treated with antiviral medications and isolated at home.
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Thousands of people have opted for “memorial spaceflights” to transport cremated remains into space.
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The Tulare County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that at least two others have drowned at the photogenic site known as the Seven Teacups.
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Earthquake notifications are powered by the ShakeAlert early warning system created by the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Though a magnitude 5.2 earthquake came as a surprise to Kern County residents on Tuesday night, the quake and its aftershocks occurred in an area that’s known to be seismically active.
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Tickets to a private fundraiser in Coalinga, California, started at $3,300 apiece.
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Many say California almond growers have, in some ways, been the victims of their own success, as overplanting and other factors have led to an oversupply and near-record-low almond prices. But in the last few months, the outlook has begun to turn around.
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Ten people were sickened in late June after attending two gatherings in Caruthers and Clovis, health officials told media.
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According to city officials, a national search for a new police chief will begin immediately, and Deputy Chief Mindy Casto will step in as interim chief in the meantime.