On Tuesday, February 18, 2020, Dr. Phillip Levin, Dr. Alison Cullen, and Dr. Laura Koehn introduced their project to assess social and ecological vulnerability of West Coast fishing communities to climate change. They are using a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches to estimate the:
magnitude of climate impacts on ecosystems;
extent to which those impacts will be felt by fishing communities; and capacity of communities to respond or adapt.