The U.S. Global Change Research Program has highlighted the Nation’s Coasts as one of three focus areas at the intersection of climate-related global change. The coastal region is squarely at the nexus of many important societal changes and facing additional threats such as increased sea level rise and the increased frequency and/or severity of previously more rare storms and other weather events, coupled with increasing and diverse populations, decaying infrastructure, and transformations of the complex social and economic connections to the nation’s interior. Confronting those changes requires better understanding of the coupled human and natural systems while bridging spatial, temporal, and governance scales to support improved decision-making. This session invites submissions from researchers and practitioners across the U.S. who are addressing these or other coastal problems with new approaches that cross disciplines and account for multisector and cascading impacts.