Recent Reports
- UCI 2025 Annual Report, April 2026
- “Reflections: Two Decades Supporting Stewardship of Coastal Communities and Ocean Resources,” September 2025 – View digital flipbook version | View PDF version
- UCI 2023 Annual Report, April 2024
- UCI 2022 Annual Report, May 2023
- Defense Research at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions, December 2022. Co-authored by UCI Ocean Policy Fellow Paul G. Gaffney II
- Framework for a Coastal Ecological Adaptation Prioritization Support Tool: Methodology, July 2020.
- Climate Change and the Voiceless: Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources, by Randall Abate. Published by Cambridge University Press, October 2019
- Final Report from The National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA, January 2019
- Fourth National Climate Assessment, Chapter 18: Northeast, December 2018. Co-authored by UCI Director Tony MacDonald
- New Jersey’s Coastal Management Program: 40 Years of Coastal Protection, Policy and Progress 1978-2018, October 2018. View as digital flipbook | Download PDF (18 MB)
- Regional Sediment Management in the Mid-Atlantic: Conserving Funds and Resources through Coordination, May 2018
- Climate Change Vulnerabilities in the Coastal Mid-Atlantic Region, May 2018
Companion fact sheets:
– Climate Change and the Mid-Atlantic’s Coastal Economy
– Shifting Species in the Mid-Atlantic
– Monitoring Acidification in the Mid-Atlantic - Understanding and Predicting the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current: Critical Gaps and Recommendations, January 2018 (chaired by Paul G. Gaffney II)
- December 2017 Ocean Issues Polls: Mid-Atlantic Coastal Policy: The Public View (statewide survey). Also see press release for summary of surveys.
- A Practical Guide to Beach Access and the Public Trust Doctrine in New Jersey, May 2017. Read in digital flipbook format or download report PDF (5 MB)
White Papers, Op-Eds & Journal Articles
A selection of writings produced by or contributed to by the Urban Coast Institute.
- “Ecosocial Work and Climate Justice as Guiding Frameworks for Transformative Emergency Management Social Work,” co-authored by Rachel Forbes and Falon Alo, May 2026.
- “Foundations of climate change denial: Anti-environmentalism and anti-science,” co-authored by Peter Jacques, PLOS One, November 2025.
- “An Oceanography-Based Anticipatory Approach to Monitoring Fisheries and Fishery Resource Impacts From Offshore Wind Farms: A Perspective From the Mid-Atlantic Bight, USA,” co-authored by Jason Adolf and Keith Dunton, Fisheries Oceanography, November 2025.
- “Offshore Wind Farm Contributions to a Regional Environmental and Ecological Monitoring System to Address Multi-User Needs,” co-authored by Tom Herrington and Tony MacDonald, October 2025.
- “New Jersey Turns the Tide with Innovative Coastal Sediment Strategy,” by Tony MacDonald and Barbara Brummer, June 2025
- “Harmful Algal Blooms in Select New Jersey Coastal Lakes 2021-2023,” by Jason Adolf, June 2025.
- “Stages of capitalist development and maximum marine plastic pollution and the SDGs,” by Peter Jacques, Cambridge Prisms: Plastics, May 2023.
- “Nitrogen-limited Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms in Deal Lake, New Jersey,” by Jason Adolf, Katie Saldutti, Erin Conlon, Eric Ernst, Bill Heddendorf, Sheri Shifren, and Robert Schuster, Urban Naturalist, Fall 2022
- “Seeking a more equitable path to resilience,” co-authored by Thomas Herrington, Journal of the American Shore & Beach Preservation Association, Fall 2022
- “Youth and Indigenous Voices in Climate Justice: Leveraging Best Practices from U.S. and Canadian Litigation,” by Randall Abate, The Public Land & Resources Law Review, June 2022
- Current laboratory protocols for detecting fish species with environmental DNA optimize sensitivity and reproducibility, especially for more abundant populations, with Jason Adolf and Keith Dunton, ICES Journal of Marine Science, January 2022
- “Coastal Resiliency Considerations for America’s Four Coasts: Preparing for 2100,” co-authored by by Thomas Herrington, Journal of Marine Environmental Engineering, October 2021
- Student paper: Mutual Benefits for Offshore Wind Energy in the Mid-Atlantic: Science and Policy Strategies to Mitigate Harm to Marine Species and Maximize Benefits for Renewable Energy, by Riya Ajmera, September 2021
- Student paper: The “30 by 30” Initiative: Implementing Area-Based Management Strategies to Confront Marine Biodiversity Loss in the Mid-Atlantic Region, by Kyra Velock, September 2021
- What Is a Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) and Why Do they Form? by Jason Adolf, ANJEC Report, Summer 2021
- The Impact of Temperature on Labor Quality: Umpire Accuracy in Major League Baseball, by Eric Fesselmeyer, Southern Economic Journal, July 2021
- Anthropocene Accountability Litigation: Confronting Common Enemies to Promote a Just Transition, by Randall Abate, Columbia Journal of Law, February 2021
- Student paper: Climate Change Communication in Kolkata: Applying Communication Theories to Address the Threat of Climate Change Displacement, by Lisha Samuel, February 2021
Striped Bass Catch & Release Best Practices
The UCI and Monmouth University School of Science Assistant Dean John Tiedemann have published a report and a series of educational materials as part of Stripers for the Future, a research and education campaign designed to promote best catch and release practices for striped bass anglers.
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