HOW DOES GLOBAL WARMING affect the maritime shipping industry? How do ocean changes affect the movement of military vessels, the migration of whales, and the dispersal of oil spills and plastics in ever-shifting currents?

These were some of the questions addressed Thursday at an Earth Day Ocean Intelligence Forum. The event was hosted by Sofar Ocean, a San Francisco-based technology company that builds and disperses hundreds of remote, solar-powered data collection buoys across the world’s oceans.

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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.