Coast Day 2021: Climate Change
Climate Change is one of the central challenges of our time, as well as a primary topic of study at the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment (CEOE) and other academic units at the University of Delaware. Delaware Sea Grant provides some community engagement on climate change and related topics, including through the Ocean Currents lecture series this past summer, presented in partnership with CEOE.
Climate Change in Delaware and Around the World
Leading off the 2021 Ocean Currents lecture series, Dan Leathers, state climatologist, presents on the basics of what is driving climate change and the impacts it is having in Delaware and the Mid-Atlantic compared with other experiences around the world.
How Offshore Wind Could Advance a Just Energy Transition
Cristina Archer and Jeremy Firestone of UD’s Center for Research in Wind discuss both the electricity generating potential of offshore wind and the societal factors determining whether, how and where offshore wind farms get built.
Fleeing Fish
As ocean warming causes fish stocks to migrate toward cooler waters to maintain their preferred thermal environment, many of the nations that rely on commercial fish species as an integral part of their economy could suffer.
Climate Change Portal
Climate Change & Delaware
At Delaware Sea Grant, we're giving communities the tools they need to prepare for climate change and supporting projects that help us better understand how climate change will impact Delaware.
Live Events
Connecting to Climate Change (11:30am)With Jules Bruck and Dana Veron, directors of the Gerard J. Mangone Climate Change Science and Policy Hub at the University of Delaware
Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change (noon)
With Lindsay Naylor (Associate Professor, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment)