The Council on Ocean Affairs, Science and Technology (COAST) integrates resources across the CSU and promotes interdisciplinary multicampus collaborations to advance our knowledge of coastal and marine resources and the processes affecting them. COAST serves faculty and students engaged in marine, coastal and coastal watershed related research at each of the CSU’s 23 campuses and supports research providing innovative solutions to economic, sociological, ecological and technological challenges along our coast.
Dr. Priya Ganguli and Dr. Scott Hauswirth, assistant professors in geological sciences at California State University, Northridge, are studying the transport and fate of contaminants in ephemeral lagoons that form along the coast.
Marine Science
Increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere from anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are raising global temperatures and changing ocean chemistry.