An Update on Three Recent Graduates
Recent graduates Emma Ross (MAIEP OCRM ‘17), Clesi Bennett (MAIEP OCRM ‘17) and Melis Ökter (MAIEP OCRM ‘16) share updates on their professional positions, work and life.
CBE News
The Center for the Blue Economy launches the "Mid-Atlantic Coastal Vulnerability Data Portal"
| by Charles Colgan, Shaun Richards, and Rachel Christopherson
The Center for the Blue Economy is committed to providing free, open-access data. Now regional managers along the Mid-Atlantic coast have a new tool: the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Vulnerability Data Portal.
Environmental advocates line up against Trump administration marine policy
| by Andrew Lachman of the Santa Cruz Sentinel
“We have more than 50 years of practical experience that indicates that when the environment is protected the economy does quite well.” Dr. Charles Colgan, Director of Research, Center for the Blue Economy.
California's Fourth Climate Change Assessment
| by Rachel Christopherson and Co-Authors California's Fourth Climate Change Assessment
California is a global leader in using, investing in, and advancing research to set proactive climate change policy, and its Climate Change Assessments provide the scientific foundation for understanding climate-related vulnerability. Dr. Charles Colgan, Director of Research at the Center for the Blue Economy, is a co-lead author of: “California’s Coast and Ocean Summary Report.”
Fall 2018 Center for the Blue Economy Speaker Series
Each fall, the Center for the Blue Economy hosts a speaker series that brings creative, pragmatic, and practice-based professionals to campus to inform and support the students in the International Environmental Policy program.
Final Report on Regional Economic Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise in San Diego
One of the consequences of climate change and sea level rise that has not been extensively examined is potential damage to regional economies. Most studies have focused on possible damages to individual properties, but looking at future flood risks in future dollars at the regional economic level is a new approach.
Assessing the Mid-Atlantic Coast's Economic Vulnerability To Climate Change
| by Rachel Christopherson, Water Online, and The Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean-MARCO
The Center for the Blue Economy, in collaboration with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has published a first-of-its-kind report for The Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean (MARCO) examining Mid-Atlantic vulnerabilities of several critical economic sectors to climate change. The report quantifies the potential impacts of threats like sea level rise, rising ocean temperatures and changes in the ocean’s chemistry to communities and businesses in 63 counties and independent cities along the coast from New York to Virginia.