Coastal managers in California are tasked with the important but daunting job is preparing their communities for climate change impacts including coastal flooding, cliff erosion and damage to offshore ecosystems. To help them, COS has prepared a Coastal Issues chapter, part of the new "Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwestern United States."

An international symposium on the cutting-edge topic of dynamic marine conservation is drawing experts from around the globe to Stanford Law School in May. Cosponsored by COS, the two-day event is sold out.

When COS's MARINE initiative collaborated with Pacific Grove on a graduate student workshop, one result was winning an Urban Greening grant from California's Strategic Growth Council.

You are invited to join over 3,000 scientists worldwide in a call to governments to protect coral reefs for future generations. The Scientific Consensus Statement was drafted by the Climate Change and Corals working group, a collaboration of 20 eminent scientists from the international community, organized last year by the Center for Ocean Solutions. It will be announced at ICRS in Cairns, Australia on 8 July.