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— Geoff Trussell, executive director, Coastal Sustainability Institute

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Northeastern CSI Tapped for $1.6M WHOI Sea Grant Partnership
by Sierra Muñoz

Professor Jennifer Bowen has received WHOI Sea Grant funding to investigate bacterial contamination threatening Massachusetts soft-shell clam harvests.

CSI Awarded $1M to Put Communities at the Center of Flood Risk Reduction
by CSI Staff

CSI researchers Samuel Muñoz, James Dennedy-Frank, Geoffrey Trussell and Damon Hall were awarded a $998,696 NSF grant for “Working with communities to reduce flood risk and increase resilience.”

Breakthrough research uses machine learning to better predict New England floods
by Noah Lloyd

Researchers at Northeastern University used machine learning to aggregate nearly five decades of weather data to better understand the factors that lead to New England flooding.

Coastal Imperative

40%

of the world’s population lives within 100 km of a coast

$1.5T

Amount oceans contribute annually in value-add to the world economy

275M

Estimated number of people living in areas that will be flooded due to global warming