Building coastal resilience by engaging partners, fostering leaders, and addressing the challenges from climate change with strategic focus in 6 key areas:
Advancing climate adaptation
Developing nature-based solutions
Enabling market options
Restoring natural resources
Supporting climate justice
Strengthening communications
Strategic investment and relationships to date
$20M
in state and additional support
23
UC Santa Cruz research teams
50+
local, state, and international partnerships
Coastal Climate Research News
New research led by UC Santa Cruz fellow outlines framework for mainstreaming nature in U.S. federal policy
A groundbreaking research paper led by Heather Tallis, a Senior Fellow with the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, presents a comprehensive framework for integrating nature into policy-making to help make that happen.
Silicon Valley Renegades Pollute the Sky to Save the Planet
Sikina Jinnah, a professor studying solar geoengineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shares her concerns about entrepreneurs who are independently releasing sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to try to tackle global warming.
National Practice Forum on Nature-Based Solutions
The Network for Engineering With Nature in partnership with the National Academy of Sciences Resilient America Roundtable and the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience is convening a national forum focused on the practice of nature-based solutions on February 4-5, 2025, at the NAS Beckman Center in Irvine, California. Register Now!