IS THE WATER in San Francisco Bay safe for swimming? Are the fish safe to eat? Are the animals who live in the water getting sick?  What are the new innovations for keeping the Bay and its tributaries healthy? How can art help environmentalists think more creatively? These are some of the questions addressed at the State of the San Francisco Estuary Conference, which was held this week at Oakland’s Scottish Rite Center.

The event was organized by the San Francisco Estuary Partnership, a regional collaborative of government agencies, nonprofits and community groups that work to protect and restore the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary. It is one of 28 estuary partnerships across the country established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and funded by Congress. 

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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.