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Speaker's Event with Gary Griggs

Climate Change and Santa Cruz- What Can We Expect?

We are already experiencing some of the consequences of climate change with hotter, drier summers with longer droughts and more fires; more concentrated winter rainfall and runoff; and sea level rise with increased coastal flooding and erosion. What does the future hold and what are our options for dealing with these changes.


This event was rescheduled from February 26 to March 13, 2025.

 

Thursday, March 13, 2025
2-3:30 PM
122 Arboretum Rd, Santa Cruz, CA 95064

 

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 Gary Griggs, Distinguished Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences at the University of California Santa Cruz where he has taught for 57 years. He received his PhD in Oceanography from Oregon State University in 1968. His research, teaching, writing and lectures have been focused on coastal processes, hazards, and the impacts of and responses to climate change and sea-level rise. In 1998 he was given the Outstanding Physical and Biological Sciences Faculty Award at U.C. Santa Cruz, and the Alumni Association honored him with a Distinguished Teaching Award in 2006. The California Coastal Commission and Sunset Magazine named him one of California’s Coastal Heroes in 2009 and Gary chaired a committee in 2017 recommended by Governor Brown to update California’s sea-level rise projections. He was recently elected as the chair of the California Ocean Sciences Trust, and served as Director of the Institute of Marine Sciences for 26 years and led the development of the Coastal Sciences Campus.
Gary has written 15 books including: Living with the Changing California Coast; Introduction to California’s Beaches and Coast; The California Coast from the Air; Coasts in Crisis – A Global Challenge; The Edge – The Pressured Past and Precarious Future of California’s Coast; Between Paradise and Peril – The Natural Disaster History of the Monterey Bay Region; and most recently - California Catastrophes – The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State.