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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Much of the world’s highest quality cotton is grown right here in the San Joaquin Valley. But the return of Tulare Lake has threatened this year’s crop.
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Following years of advocacy work from locals, the Medical Board of California held a meeting in Bakersfield to learn more about the region’s high maternal mortality rate.
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Referred to by some as “green glaciers, many meadows in the Sierra Nevada have been overgrown, burned, or degraded by industry. But they serve important functions in forests. And a key to restoring them, say experts, is to think like rodents.
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The 77,000 acres it incinerated in the park inspired an expansion of fire prevention efforts.
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Doctor at center of fraud settlement now embroiled in investigation at Coalinga psychiatric hospitalDr. Francis Lagattuta, who recently paid $11.4 million to settle a case alleging Medi-Cal and Medicare insurance fraud at a system of pain clinics, is now at the center of an investigation into possible hepatitis C exposure at a pain clinic he operated at a state-run psychiatric hospital.
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One mosquito abatement district in Tulare County has reportedly purchased its first-ever drone, amphibious vehicle and airboat.
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Kings County officials estimate billions of dollars in agricultural losses after nearly 100,000 acres of cotton, tomato, safflower, pistachios and other commodities were wiped out by Tulare Lake.
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Porterville Unified School District will receive energy upgrades thanks to a $5.8 million “Renew America’s Schools” grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
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As the final installment in the Water Whiplash series, a meteorologist who foresaw “unprecedented” and “unparalleled” flooding reflects on the lessons we can draw from our recent wet winter—and how we can prepare for weather extremes in the future.
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A Tulare County farm advisor warns we may not determine the cumulative impacts of flooding and extreme rainfall on fruit and nut crops until sometime in 2024.