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The new Washington Sea Grant Coastal Resilience Fellowship builds capacity and careers on the Pacific coast

April 29, 2026

By Alison Lorenz, Communications Project Coordinator

 

When Rich Desanto applied for the new Washington Sea Grant (WSG) Coastal Resilience Fellowship, he was looking for a change. After nine years in Seattle, mostly spent in grad school and weathering the COVID-19 pandemic, Desanto was feeling priced out of the city and unsettled in his career in landscape architecture. He was already subscribed to the Washington Sea Grant (WSG) Shorelines and Coastal Planners Group email listserv, and had a ...

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New modeling tool shows coastal flooding hazards in central Puget Sound

Created by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and supported by Washington Sea Grant (WSG), the Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) recently released flood hazard products for shorelines in King and Pierce Counties

January 14, 2026

From flooding to eroding shorelines, extreme storms increase the hazards faced by coastal communities. Recognizing these threats, planners and managers around Washington are assessing the vulnerability of their communities and planning for impacts – in particular, the impacts of coastal flooding due to storms, ...

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WSG welcomes inaugural cohort of Coastal Resilience Fellows

September 17, 2025

Congratulations to our new WSG Coastal Resilience Fellows!

We are pleased to announce that recent graduates Anabel Baker, Elyse Kelsey, Madeleine Lucas and Rich Desanto have been awarded the Washington Sea Grant (WSG) Coastal Resilience Fellowship for 2025–2027.

This is the inaugural cohort of the new WSG Coastal Resilience Fellowship, a unique educational opportunity for early or shifting career professionals to provide additional capacity for coastal communities around coastal resilience. A two-year, paid fellowship ...

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