The Land to Sea Network (L2S) brings together leading solution-builders from Indigenous and allied non-profit and community-based organizations, all planning for the future impacts of flooding and fire in the context of multiple stressors, including climate change. Participants include Indigenous, rural, and urban communities connected through their intimate relationships from land to sea.

Through building relationships and strengthening collaborations, the L2S Network initially came together in a collaborative knowledge sharing process to expand and enhance the effectiveness of climate data, tools, and science to support community adaptation and resilience planning. Focusing on a watershed-level, community hub approach of connected coastal communities to the Pacific Ocean (California, Hawai‘i), the Gulf of Mexico (Louisiana), and the Caribbean Sea (Borikén/Puerto Rico), partners engaged in a participatory process of collaborative knowledge sharing and co-learning over a three-year period together (2021-2024), to share climate data indicators (e.g., loss of shoreline, erosion) and metrics that communities use to enhance the usefulness of climate data and support climate adaptation and resilience planning. 

L2S launched through The Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network (LiKEN) facilitating collaboration with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, El Puente Enlace Latino de Acción Climática, First People’s Conservation Council of Louisiana, Kīpuka Kuleana, Lowlander Center, Para la Naturaleza, Sogorea Te Land Trust, The Indigenous Futures Society (previously The Sierra Fund), in collaboration with trusted partners at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Stanford University, and University of California-San Diego. The initial 3-years of the collaboration was funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate Program Office, Adaptation Sciences (AdSci) Program, Award #NA21OAR4310280.

The L2S Network continues to be an emergent initiative, growing with contributions from more places and people over time. To learn more about what has emerged from L2S over its first years, please visit the resources below.