Kaye LaFond
Data JournalistKaye is an alumnus of Michigan Tech's environmental engineering program. She got her start making maps for the Traverse City-Based water news organization Circle of Blue, and, since then, she's been pretty devoted to science communication and data visualization.
She currently holds a half-time position at the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, where she creates infographics, blogs, and tweets. She has done freelance work for various organizations.
She lives in East Jordan, Michigan with her husband and fur children. East Jordan is in fact about 4 hours north of Ann Arbor. She does a lot of working from home and makes bi-monthly trips downstate. She enjoys living in rural northern Michigan, and spends her free time running, kayaking, drinking wine, and hanging out with her fur kids.
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Water Protectors are camping in Northern Michigan to call for a shutdown of Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline. About 15 permanent campers are at two rural… -
The 1033 program allows police departments in the United States to obtain surplus military equipment at no cost. We made an infographic so you could… -
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality held a public hearing on Wednesday evening in Mackinaw City, taking comments on proposed new anchor… -
Record rainfall devastated large parts of Houghton County earlier this month. Flash flooding killed a 12-year-old boy when the basement of his house… -
Residents are beginning the process of recovery after flash flooding rocked the western Upper Peninsula Sunday morning, leaving dozens of sinkholes,… -
A year ago, the City of Grand Rapids released a study showing that black drivers are twice as likely to get pulled over as white drivers. Since 2015, the… -
At more than 1,600 sites across the state of Michigan, you can’t drink the groundwater. Well, you could, but it wouldn’t be safe or legal. These sites are… -
Last month, the state of Michigan declared Flint’s drinking water quality "restored." To get to this point, it’s taken, among other things, more than… -
It’s been half a century since the federal government banned discrimination in the home mortgage industry. But a new analysis of mortgage data shows… -
Dr. Larry Nassar, a former athletic doctor at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics, was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison today. He pled…
