Recent Work

Environmental groups say the threat of sea level rise makes Redwood City’s Bayside salt flats the last place to build low-lying homes for 27,000 new residents, but developers say they’ll simply create taller levees. Second in a two-part radio series in partnership with Bay Area News Group.

How do you plan for something you can’t predict? That’s the question facing developers of San Francisco’s Treasure Island as they grapple with a variety future of sea level rise projections. First in a two-part radio series in partnership with Bay Area News Group.

How so we solve the nitrate problem? Listeners call in to KQED’s Forum with suggestions and concerns. Julia Scott and Sasha Khokha, Central Valley Bureau Chief with KQED, discuss their six-month investigative collaboration to draw attention to the issue of nitrates in groundwater.

Experts say that nitrate pollution is a major threat to California future water supply, while some cities already spend millions of dollars to treat nitrates in groundwater. Second in a two-part series produced in collaboration with California Watch.

The water supply of more than two million Californians has been exposed to harmful levels of nitrates over the past 15 years – a time marked by lax regulatory efforts to contain the colorless and odorless contaminant. First in a two-part series produced in collaboration with California Watch.

Water for one of the biggest proposed developments in the Bay Area’s history would be supplied by a developer who has amassed enough private water rights to sell the surplus to cities that are getting squeezed dry. First in a two-part water package.

Residents of a future Bayside community could someday be sipping water that, on paper at least, has traveled 300 miles from Kern County to the Bay Area. Second in a two-part water package.

Could the evacuation of an a cliffside apartment building in Pacifica have been prevented? The city says coastal erosion on private property is not their responsibility.

The California gull population in the San Francisco Bay Area has increased by 900 percent since the birds began breeding on bayside salt ponds in 1980. Fueled by easy access to trash at local landfills and parking lots, their unnatural population growth has placed neighboring waterbird species in peril, according to biologists.

A team of Dutch researchers tells Bay Area planners it’s time to act now to prevent flooding from sea level rise over the next 100 years.