Appointment of Chief Coastal Resilience Officer

The Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) announced Deanna Moran’s appointment as Chief Coastal Resilience Officer within the Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM). In this position, she will lead the state’s new ResilientCoasts initiative, a holistic and proactive strategy to guide state and local coastal resiliency policy and action.

Per a Healey-Driscoll [announcement](https://https://www.mass.gov/news/healey-driscoll-administration-launches-statewide-coastal-resiliency-strategy) in November 2023, the Chief Coastal Resilience Officer will lead the ResilientCoasts Initiative.

The Healey-Driscoll Administration today announced the launch of the ResilientCoasts initiative, a holistic strategy for addressing the impacts of climate change along the coastline of Massachusetts. In collaboration with the state’s 78 coastal communities, ResilientCoasts will pursue a multipronged approach to identify regulatory, policy, and funding mechanisms to develop focused long-term solutions. Notably, the initiative will be led by a new Chief Coastal Resilience Officer within the Office of Coastal Zone Management. Working with communities, this team will establish Coastal Resilience Districts based on their unique climate impacts. The development of a coastal resilience strategy is a priority action within the state’s ResilientMass Plan.

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