Rosanna Xia, author of California Against the Sea, in conversation with Dr. Charles Lester, Director of UC Santa Barbara’s Ocean and Coastal Policy Center, discussing sea level rise and the challenges looming over the California coast.

In-person event. McCune Conference Room, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB) at UCSB.

Rosanna Xia is an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she specializes in stories about the coast and ocean. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 for explanatory reporting, and her work has been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing series.

Cosponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series, the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment, the UCSB Ocean and Coastal Policy Center, the Marine Science Institute, and the Environmental Studies Program.