Search for people, departments, or email addresses.
Borja Gonzalez Reguero
Associate Professor (provision)
Physical & Biological Sciences Division
Coastal Science & Policy Program
Institute of Marine Sciences
Associate Professor (provision)
Faculty
Center for Coastal Climate Resilience (CCCR)
Regular Faculty
Coastal Science
Climate Change
Earth Sciences
Long Marine Lab Ocean Health Building
209
US Geological Survey - Coastal and Pacific Center
Earth & Marine Sciences Building
Mondays - 1-3pm; Wednesdays 1-3pm
Long Marine Lab
Borja works at the intersection of climate risks, nature-based engineering, and coastal sustainability to advance climate risk solutions in coastal areas, with a special interest on nature-based solutions. His research and teaching interests span areas of climate change, engineering and adaptation.
At UCSC and the Coastal Science and Policy Program, he studies how climate change affects coastal hazards, works to reduce risk from sea level rise and extreme weather events, and advances the use of natural infrastructure and nature-based engineering for climate resilience, in close partnership with partners in the public and private sector in the U.S and internationally. His research work has informed new policy to protect coastlines and coastal infrastructure such as the USCRTF Resolution 47.2 that declared US coral reefs as National Natural Infrastructure in 2022; and developed innovative resilience insurance concepts that align climate risk and environmental goals such as reef insurance in Mexico and Hawaii with The Nature Conservancy and the risk industry.
For this research, he combines numerical modeling with statistical and data science techniques. Dr. Reguero holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and Environmental Hydraulics, a M.S. in Coastal and Port Engineering, and a M.S. in Applied Economics.
- Reguero, B.G., Storlazzi, C.D., Gibbs, A.E., Shope, J., Cole, A., Cumming, K.A., Beck, M.W. (2021). The value of US coral reefs for flood risk reduction. Nature Sustainability 4, 688–698. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00706-6
- Reguero, B.G., Losada, I.J. & Méndez, F.J. (2019) A recent increase in global wave power as a consequence of oceanic warming. Nature Communications 10, 205 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08066-0
- Viehman, T. S., Reguero, B.G., Hunter, S.L., et al. 2023. “ Coral Restoration for Coastal Resilience: Integrating Ecology, Hydrodynamics, and Engineering at Multiple Scales.” Ecosphere 14(5): e4517. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4517
- Reguero, B.G., Griggs, G. (2022) Adaptation to Coastal Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise. Water
- Reguero, B.G., Beck, M.W., Schmid, D., Stadtmueller, D., Raepple, J., Schüssele, S., Pfliegner, K. (2019). Financing Coastal Resilience by Combining the Natural Defenses of Coral Reefs and Insurance. Ecological Economics
- Reguero, B.G., Beck, M.W., Bresch, D.N., Calil, J., Meliane, I. (2018). Comparing the cost effectiveness of Nature-Based and Coastal adaptation: a case study from the Gulf Coast of the United States. PLOS ONE 13(4): e0192132
Quantitative methods for coastal resilience.
This campus directory is the property of the University of California at Santa Cruz. To protect the privacy of individuals listed herein, in accordance with the State of California Information Practices Act, this directory may not be used, rented, distributed, or sold for commercial purposes. For more details, please see the university guidelines for assuring privacy of personal information in mailing lists and telephone directories. If you have any questions please contact the ITS Support Center.