The North-central California coast and ocean is a globally significant, extraordinarily diverse and productive marine and coastal ecosystem that is home to abundant wildlife, valuable fisheries, two national marine sanctuaries, two national parks, and a national wildlife refuge. Significant coastal areas, including Tomales Bay, Bolinas Lagoon, Estero Americano, and Estero de San Antonio, support a diversity of habitats, including eelgrass beds, intertidal sand and mud flats, and salt and freshwater marshes that provide numerous ecosystem services such as carbon storage, flood control and improved water quality.

Resource managers realize the immediate threats of climate change to the resilience, health, and ecosystem services of the special coastal and ocean places they protect, yet the resources to develop appropriate management options to prepare for and respond to a changing environment are limited. This project will follow the climate-smart conservation cycle to achieve the following outcomes:

1) Vulnerability assessments for focal resources for the coast and ocean region from Año Nuevo, San Mateo County to Alder Creek, Mendocino County
2) Climate change profile and scenarios from climatic & non‐climatic drivers
3) Prioritized list of adaptation actions
4) Adaptation Implementation Plan for the coast and ocean region from Año Nuevo, San Mateo County to the Marin/Sonoma County line
5) Project design for 2‐4 pilot Green Resilient Shorelines adaptation projects within distinct geographic areas such as Bolinas Lagoon.