The assessment, produced by the National Sea Grant College Program, National Oceanic an Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce, in collaboration with the Ocean and Coastal Policy Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the California Ocean Protection Council, surveys coastal managers and planners to evaluate management needs and challenges along California’s coastline.

See Figure 19.3 in the main assessment (page 39 of the 2023 report) for results of the questionnaire asking respondents about their preferred resources for future coastal hazards and flooding information.

Our Coast, Our Future is a collaborative, user-driven tool providing California coastal resource managers and land-use planners with resources to understand, visualize, and plan for future and extreme storm conditions. It is the platform for data visualization, synthesis, and download of all output products from the USGS Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS), which makes detailed predictions of storm-induced coastal flooding, erosion, and cliff failures over large geographic scales.