The 40-foot adult female gray whale that was found last week off Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda has since dislodged from a sandbar and has been towed to a secure location, according to the California Academy of Sciences. 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Tow Boat USA coordinated Tuesday the whale’s delivery to a lab for necropsy to determine the cause of death. The response team also included the Marine Mammal Center and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.