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
40
UC Santa Cruz research teams
50+
local, state, and international partnerships
Coastal Climate Research News
Forum captures urgency to use ecosystems to protect people and property
The National Practice Forum on Nature-Based Solutions, held in Irvine on February 4 and 5 and sponsored by the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, highlighted the benefits of nature based solutions to protect people and property from natural disasters.
Scientists collaborate on immersive technology to address climate challenges
The UC Santa Cruz Center for Coastal Climate Resilience and a team of scientists and science communicators at UC San Diego have developed an initiative focused on immersive technology that uses advanced hardware and software to simulate environments and experiences.
UC study on the nexus of the housing crisis, climate change, and habitat loss
A UC-backed research study is examining how the urban housing crisis drives development to natural areas such as the former Nyland cattle ranch in rural San Benito County
