How We Work

• CICEET acts nationally, bridging academia, government, private industry, and non-government agencies to identify the common challenges of greatest concern to coastal resource managers.
• CICEET works with an ever-broadening network of coastal managers to identify how new or enhanced technology can address the priority challenges of coastal management, and what obstacles would prevent the implementation of new tools.
• CICEET forges strategic partnerships and designs competitive funding programs that engage technology innovators and coastal managers to work together to develop effective, practical tools.
• CICEET makes these tools available to coastal managers through demonstration, training, outreach, and an evolving technology utilization program.
• CICEET is enhanced by its unique relationship to the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS), a network of 27 protected estuarine areas around the country. The NERRS is an essential partner in identifying local coastal resource management challenges, as well as developing, demonstrating, and disseminating tools to address them.