Understanding Coastal Risk & Visualizing Resilience Solutions

The Center for Coastal Climate Resilience at UC Santa Cruz is working to visualize the flood protection benefits of natural infrastructure like coral reefs and mangroves. Its researchers combine rigorous hydrodynamic and socio-economic modeling with visualization to analyze and communicate wave-driven coastal flood models to scientists, decision makers, and the public.

Video production by Jessica Kendall-Bar.
3D visualization by Ian Costello.
Hydrodynamic modeling by Borja Reguero, Camila Gaido-Lasserre, Benjamin Norris, and David Gutiérrez-Barceló.

This work was supported by the State of California. With additional support from AXA, USGS, NSF, USACE, and DARPA.