NSF awards first coastal sustainability grants

2013 Coastal SEES Awards:

• Patricia Culligan, Columbia University: Coastal SEES (Track 2), Collaborative: Developing high performance green infrastructure systems to sustain coastal cities
• Wayne Geyer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Coastal SEES (Track 2), Collaborative: Toward sustainable urban estuaries in the anthropocene
• Thomas Fisher, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences: Coastal SEES (Track 2), Collaborative: Improving Chesapeake Bay water quality by creating sustainable coastal watersheds
• Andrew Pershing, University of Maine: Coastal SEES (Track 2), Collaborative Research: Resilience and adaptation of a coastal ecological-economic system in response to increasing temperature
• Christopher Hein, College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science: Coastal SEES (Track I), Collaborative: Sediment Supply in a Regime of Accelerated Coastal Erosion (SedS-RACE): Paleo-perspectives, anthropogenic influences and future challenges
• Carl Hershner, College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science: Coastal SEES (Track 1), Collaborative: Chesapeake Bay sustainability: Implications of changing climate and shifting management objectives
• Sally Holbrook, University of California-Santa Barbara: Coastal SEES (Track 1), Collaborative: Adaptive capacity, resilience, and coral reef state shifts in social-ecological systems
• Jonathan Martin, University of Florida: Coastal SEES (Track 1): Planning for hydrologic and ecological impacts of sea level rise on sustainability of coastal water resources
• Steven Murawski, University of South Florida: Coastal SEES (Track 1): Novel approaches to understanding human use patterns and mobility for coastal natural resources management
• Adina Paytan, University of California-Santa Cruz: Coastal SEES (Track 1): Brine discharge from desalination plants—Impacts on coastal ecology, public perception, and public policy
• Tamara Ticktin, University of Hawaii: Coastal SEES (Track 1): Understanding the links between local ecological knowledge, ecosystem services, and community resilience