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.
UC Santa Cruz Hosts Garifuna Nation Ambassador-at-Large for Coastal Climate Resilience Fellowship Visit to Discuss Sustainability and Environmental Justice
The University of California, Santa Cruz Center for Coastal Climate Resilience welcomed Cynthia Ellis Topsey, Ambassador-at-Large for the Garifuna Nation, for a month fellowship visit this spring to collaborate with CCCR.
UC Santa Cruz awarded portion of federal coastal resiliency grant
UC Santa Cruz will receive more than $2 million in federal grant funding from the total $71.1 million recently awarded to the California Marine Sanctuary Foundation to boost the resiliency of coastal communities threatened by sea level rise and extreme weather.
