CSO works to increase the Coastal Zone Management Program’s ability to address the most pressing issues facing our nation’s coasts and build a more resilient, sustainable, and equitable future for coastal communities.
CSO supports, enhances, and promotes the work of the coastal states and territories by investigating and applying new and emerging scientific and social science knowledge to inform coastal decision-making.
CSO collaborates with federal, state, academic, and nonprofit partners and our member states to develop and share tools, science and research, legal analysis, policy recommendations, and best practices to address the needs of our ever-changing coasts.
The focus of CSO’s applied research is the intersection of natural coastal science, the social science of decision-making, and policy formation.