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Los Angeles Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Rosanna Xia, visited UC Santa Barbara on Feb. 8 to discuss how sea level rise is threatening California coastal communities from Crescent City down to Imperial Beach. Xia sat down with Director of UCSB’s Ocean & Coastal Policy Center (OCPC) Charles Lester to discuss her recent book
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UC Santa Barbara expands its leadership on coastal issues with revival of Ocean & Coastal Policy Center within Marine Science
UC Santa Barbara expands its leadership on coastal issues with revival of Ocean & Coastal Policy Center within the Marine Science Institute
By Harrison Tasoff
Santa Barbara, CA
Few institutions have a closer connection to coastal policy than UC Santa Barbara, perched as it is upon the bluffs at Campus Point. Add to this the response to the 1969 oil spill, which birthed the modern environmental movement, and it’s no wonder the university has gone on to foster a preeminent community of researchers studying marine and coastal issues.