Last winter, a combination of king tides and storm surge caused widespread flooding in Marin County. This year could be worse with the addition of El Niño conditions.

At Tuesday’s meeting of the Marin County Board of Supervisors, emergency management and public works staff presented their preparedness plan. The streamlined approach is part of the county’s new administrative model, led by the county executive’s office rather than each of its 22 departments reporting directly to the board.

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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.