The Greater Farallones and Cordell Bank national marine sanctuaries are seeking volunteers to monitor coastal conditions through Beach Watch, a long-term community science program conducted in partnership with the Greater Farallones Association conservation group.

Volunteers monitor assigned beach segments along the north-central California coast, collecting data to help scientists and resource managers conserve wildlife, habitats and marine ecosystems.

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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.