While some Marin County communities have acted on their own to begin sea level adaptation projects, the county itself is still deciding what type of governance structure it needs to start thinking about broad approaches.

On Tuesday, the county Board of Supervisors approved their responses to recommendations in a Marin County Civil Grand Jury report on county readiness for sea level rise. That report, “Sea Level Rise: The Water is Upon Us, We Cannot Run — We Cannot Hide,” concluded that too many communities are currently exposed to the growing risk of flooding. It recommended that Marin create a single countywide entity to address sea level rise planning and that it should be done as quickly as possible.

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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.