Connecting communities with the coastal zone, from land to sea

David Lagomasino1, Amanda Payton2, John P Walsh3, Nathan Marc Thomas4, Sonnet Xu5, Madeline Kronebusch6, Lin Xiong7, Sean P Charles2, Kinsey Blumenthal8, Shalimar Moreno5, Benjamin Poulter9, Marc Simard10, Rosa Maria Roman-Cuesta11, Andre Uychiaoco12 and Temilola Fatoyinbo9, (1)East Carolina University, Integrated Coastal Programs, Wanchese, United States, (2)East Carolina University, Department of Coastal Studies, Greenville, NC, United States, (3)Coastal Resources Center, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, United States, (4)University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (5)East Carolina University, Greenville, United States, (6)Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States, (7)East Carolina University, Department of Coastal Studies, Wanchese, United States, (8)East Carolina University, Integrated Coastal Studies, Greenville, United States, (9)NASA GSFC, Biospheric Science, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (11)Wageningen University and Research Center, Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen, Netherlands, (12)USAID Fish Right Program, Manilla, Philippines