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Building coastal resilience by engaging partners, fostering leaders, and addressing the challenges from climate change with strategic focus in 6 key areas:
![A flooded street corner.](https://climateresilience.ucsc.edu/files/2024/02/flood-2ba1b691809949d9.jpg)
Advancing climate adaptation
![Aerial view of land and the ocean.](https://climateresilience.ucsc.edu/files/2024/02/marsh-4d8d4aa0f1505128.jpg)
Developing nature-based solutions
![Scuba divers looking at coral.](https://climateresilience.ucsc.edu/files/2024/02/scuba-coral-ef48b0ca1f8ab396.jpg)
Enabling market options
![Salmon jumping upstream in the water.](https://climateresilience.ucsc.edu/files/2024/02/salmon-cf848960991f8ad1.jpg)
Restoring natural resources
![Flooding in an island community.](https://climateresilience.ucsc.edu/files/2024/02/island-e13fceb75cf1bba2.jpg)
Supporting climate justice
![Two people examining a dried sea bed while discussing what they see.](https://climateresilience.ucsc.edu/files/2024/03/20211107_132357-4ca89ef519bda2a5.jpg)
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
![UCSC Researchers and Chancellor Larive on stage at APEC University Leaders' Forum](https://climateresilience.ucsc.edu/files/2024/03/apec_unileaders_forum_151_53349803895_o-7e8a4162228d0fd5.jpg)
Worldwide leaders convene to protect, advance global biodiversity
UC Santa Cruz hosted the APEC University Leaders’ Forum with UC Davis and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities
![Coral reefs in the ocean](https://climateresilience.ucsc.edu/files/2024/03/Coral-Reef-750-fe4552a09ac8058e.jpg)
Coral reefs identified as national natural infrastructure
UC Santa Cruz and federal agency partners drafted a policy resolution that advances funding for reef protections for people
![Water storage being monitored by solar meter.](https://climateresilience.ucsc.edu/files/2024/03/05_InfiltBasin-LookSouth2-CLIP_200405-a2b97f3b70320634-edited.jpg)
Rebates can offer solutions to California’s groundwater woes
A new study by UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley researchers calculates how a unique program modeled after rooftop solar metering can help to enhance the storage of groundwater
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