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Cayla Cothron<\/a> has joined North Carolina Sea Grant\u2019s team, adding her experience in coastal and watershed resilience to the program\u2019s extension team.<\/p>\n

\u201cCayla brings an impressive track record of working with communities as a public and private sector planner,\u201d says Frank L\u00f3pez, NC Sea Grant\u2019s extension director.<\/p>\n

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As a new climate resilience extension associate, Cothron will focus on outreach and collaborative efforts. She notes that \u201cSea Grant serves a unique role in building relationships and facilitating discussions with communities,\u201d an element that drew her to the position.<\/p>\n

Cothron will connect with coastal communities and natural resource managers, working alongside NC Sea Grant staff like L\u00f3pez; Sarah Spiegler, coastal resilience specialist; and Spencer Rogers, coastal construction and erosion specialist; as well as a variety of researchers across the state.<\/p>\n

She also will work directly with students, partners and individuals, including providing assistance to graduate student fellows doing coastal resilience research. In particular, she will continue partnerships of the North Carolina Sentinel Site program along the state\u2019s coastal region.<\/p>\n

North Carolina\u2019s coastline is \u201cpositioned to have ongoing impacts from climate change,\u201d Cothron explains, and that requires proactive planning on part of researchers looking to mitigate potential damage. With climate impacts at the forefront of her work, Cothron will assist a coastal community to improve its climate risk communication.<\/p>\n

Originally from Florida, Cothron knew that she \u201cloved the Earth\u201d and wanted to pursue a career with that passion at the forefront. She earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in environmental studies at Florida State University, soon followed up by a master\u2019s of urban and regional planning at the University of Colorado Denver. Her prior positions focused on community planning efforts, most recently working for the City of Vancouver in Washington.<\/p>\n

With a return to the Southeast, Cothron says that North Carolina, in a lot of ways, \u201cfeels like home for me.\u201d She\u2019s ready to bring what she\u2019s learned from her cross-country experiences to make changes in places and ecosystems that, as she says, \u201cmade me who I am today.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look forward to Cayla joining the NC Sea Grant extension team and continuing our program’s commitment to helping coastal communities consider the immediate and longer term impacts that they face from our changing climate,\u201d L\u00f3pez says.<\/p>\n

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