Partnerships
The Climate Change Hub partners with community members, state agencies, elected leaders, businesses, and a wide range of additional stakeholders to identify community-based challenges and opportunities.
We are a resource for communities to work collaboratively and co-design solutions by bringing together experts from many fields to share academic knowledge, resources, and best practices.
Opportunities to engage
![A group of researchers from CEOE and COE are working on a project looking at how installing living shorelines--specifically, oyster reef habitat--in the Delaware Bay can protect shoreline against sea level rise and more intense storm surge events. The project is called Developing Engineering practices using Ecosystem Design Solutions for Future Army (Military DEEDS Project): Building Coastal Community Resilience with Nature-based Shoreline Solutions. It is funded through an appropriation and is a collaboration among the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), UD and Louisiana State University. The project is led at UD by Jack Puleo and looks to inform the Army on land-use management designs to enhance the resilience of military missions and operations in present and future terrains by using ecosystem services to address threats posed by climate and coastal hazards. The project is being managed by Ed Hale and graduate students Brendan Campbell, a postdoctoral researcher in Hale’s lab, and Rileigh Huddock, a master’s level student in CEOE. They have installed a living shoreline test site in the Delaware Bay near the Hugh R. Sharp campus. [UDaily]](/academics/colleges/ceoe/climate-change-hub/partnerships/_jcr_content/par_udel/columngenerator/par_2/callouttextimage_cop.coreimg.jpeg/1775756210987/ceoe-coe-living-shorelines-091223-020-udaily---story--social-sharing--800x420.jpeg "CEOE-COE-Living_Shorelines-091223")
Partners
The UD Climate Change Hub community includes faculty, students, university and statewide programs working to address climate change challenges.
The Delaware Resilient And Sustainable Communities League (RASCL) is a collaborative network of 28 state agencies, nonprofits, and academic institutions that supports Delaware communities in taking the necessary actions to thrive in the face of a rapidly changing climate.
The network carries out its mission through collaboration, information-sharing forums, and technical assistance. It also fosters networking and professional development. Signature efforts include the annual RASCL Summit and the Project Guidance Group, an initiative that provides free technical advice to communities on how to get a project started or overcome roadblocks.
The network is currently seeking more members for its Science Research Liaison committee, which strives to highlight current research related to climate resilience, sustainability, and emergency management and elevate community research needs.
For more information, visit www.derascl.org
For over 15 years, several programs at the University of Delaware have focused on monitoring the environment and developing applications to aid decision making and improve Delaware’s ability to respond to extreme weather and climate events. Recognizing that these programs shared a lot of similar goals and needs for supporting infrastructure, the Center for Environmental Monitoring Analysis (CEMA) was formed in 2017 to streamline support for these programs. Learn more at cema.udel.edu
Environmental and energy reserch centers and institutes at UD
Center for Applied Coastal Research (CACR)
Coastal Resilience Design Studio (CRDS)
Disaster Research Center (DRC)
Center for Energy & Environmental Policy (CEEP)
Ratcliffe Eco-Entrepreneurship Program
Center for Research in Wind (CReW)
Center for Environmental Humanities
Center for Plastics Innovation