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Pendleton on effects of rising sea levels on California beaches

Fellow(s): Linwood Pendleton
Topic(s): Coastal & Marine Conservation, Coastal & Marine Conservation

"The ocean is going to get higher, so all beaches are going to get smaller, but that's going to have a bigger affect on beaches that are already small," said Dr. Linwood Pendleton of Duke University. "People are going to leave those small beaches and go to beaches that are already fairly large, like Huntington Beach or Will Rogers (State) Beach, Venice Beach."

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Linwood Pendleton

Linwood Pendleton

1994 Fellow
I am the ED of the Ocean Knowledge Action Network and the Science Director for the Moonjelly Foundation. I facilitate a close community of people from around the world who want to share knowledge about co-designing ocean science for a healthier and more diverse ocean. At Moonjelly, I work with our Indigenous and local partners to create new ways of applying bottom-up, trust-based philanthropy to fund traditional and local knowledge collection as well as Indigenous researchers and scientists.