Stepping onto the spanking new Pacheco Marsh trail near Martinez for the first time on May 1, I was struck by the contrast between nature and human industry all around.
Author Archives: Ariel Rubissow Okamoto
Ariel Rubissow Okamato is KneeDeep Times’ managing editor. She is a Bay Area environmental writer, former editor of Estuary News magazine, and a co-author of a Natural History of San Francisco Bay (UC Press 2011). For the last decade, she’s been reporting on innovations in climate adaptation on the bayshore. She is also an occasional essayist for the San Francisco Chronicle. In other lives, she has been a vintner, soccer mom, and waitress. She lives in San Francisco. See her work at bayariel.com and follow her at @sfbayariel.bsky.social.
Fall Issue 2017
Snorkel Surveys Reveal the Fish World of Mount Tam’s Creeks
A biologist spends his days looking for coho and steelhead — and small, spiny sticklebacks.
Spring Issue 2015
Flood Control 2.0
Scientists look to the zone where creeks meet the Bay to guide our response to extreme storms and sea level rise.
Winter Issue 2015
It’s a Big Bay With a Lot of Low-Lying Waterfront, and the Sea Level is Rising
Sea level rise forces hard decisions and creative thinking about the San Francisco Bay’s crowded waterfront.
Summer Issue 2013
Waist Deep in North Bay Wetlands
San Pablo National Wildlife Refuge in Sonoma. Trail: 8 mi, 9 ft elevation gain, out-and-back
Winter Issue 2012
Taking the Measure of Climate Change At Corte Madera Marsh
To launch our new series on climate change in the Bay Area, we follow a group of researchers as they scan the bottom, poke the mud, and gauge the tides at Marin’s Corte Madera Marsh, in the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary effort to understand how the Bay Area’s tidal wetlands will respond to rising sea levels.
