Aerial photo looking down on a beach with people and tide coming in.

Climate and Coastal Resiliency

$4.6M


in grants funded

23


UC Santa Cruz research project teams

20+


national public universities for excellence in undergraduate teaching

UC Santa Cruz’s internationally renowned leaders bring important and varied expertise, including data science and modeling, economic forecasting, and environmental mitigation, to deep community-based research and dissemination practices, to the challenges we face from climate change.

Integrated expertise

Coastal climate expertise can be found throughout UC Santa Cruz. From policy to biology, our research and its impacts run deep.

UC Santa Cruz Coastal Campus and Seymour Center.

Center for Coastal Climate Resilience

The Center for Coastal Climate Resilience at UC Santa Cruz is leveraging its deep expertise in research and policy and practice to help communities adapt to climate change.

The outcomes from our research will assist underserved and underrepresented populations in planning for and preventing future climate disasters and will help inform state and federal policy on coastal resiliency.

MasterScience Class with Michael Beck

Michael Beck, director of the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience and principal investigator for the Coastal Resilience Lab, led a master class on how nature-based solutions, like reefs and wetlands, can protect coastal communities from climate change. The class was created as part of CCCR’s partnership with the AXA Research Fund.

Last modified: May 13, 2024