Lisa M. Krieger is a journalist for The San Jose Mercury News/Bay Area News Group, covering science, medicine and environmental research news from Stanford University, University of California, NASA-Ames, U.S. Geological Survey, Lawrence Livermore Labs and other Bay Area-based research facilities.  She covered public health crises in Mississippi after 2005's Hurricane Katrina and rebel-held Sri Lanka after 2004's East Asian tsunami, on loan to Knight-Ridder News Service.

Krieger also teaches “News Feature Writing” in the Science Communication Program (M.S. degree) at UC-Santa Cruz. 

Prior to joining The San Jose Mercury News in 1998, she was the medical writer for the San Francisco Examiner, where for 12 years she covered the AIDS epidemic and other public health issues. 

Krieger graduated from Duke University with a degree in Biology and was the recipient of a National Association of Science Writers’ fellowship at Duke University School of Medicine.  She lives in Inverness, California, on the edge of Point Reyes National Seashore.

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