1. Creating a Resilient Campus
Rob Holland
Student Engagement Intern
Carbon Neutrality Initiative

2. What is resiliency? Flexible solutions for multiple futures
Practical realizations
Involves coping and adapting
Alternate ways of prioritizing same issues

3. Why make a resiliency plan?
Impacts are inevitable
Build on Climate Action Plan
Address most catastrophic situations
Assess current vulnerability
Sea level rise, erosion, energy
Prepare for future vulnerability
Food accessibility, water planning

4. What’s included?
Institutional structures to guide the development and implementation of the plan
A joint campus-community workforce
An initial campus-community resilience assessment including initial indicators and current vulnerability
A target date by which defined thresholds of resilience will be met
Interim target dates for meeting milestones that will lead to increasing resilience
Mechanisms and indicators for tracking progress
Actions to make resilience a part of the curriculum and other educational experiences for all students
Actions to expand research in resiliency

5. Plans Included Climate Action Plan Campus Sustainability Plan
Water Action Plan
Long Range Development Plan
Santa Barbara City and County Plans

6. Resiliency Issues Covered
Climate Impacts on Current Ecosystems
Sea Level Rise
Food
Carbon Sequestration
Energy

7. Climate Impacts on Current Ecosystems
In current plans
Eradication of invasive plants
Implementation of drainage and erosion control in areas such as the south parcel of North Campus
Restoration of sewer line out of Storke wetland
Creation of a landscape management plan
In proposed resiliency plan
More consideration of native vs. drought resistant
Planting for a future climate

8. Sea Level Rise In current plans In proposed resiliency plan
Maps of expected sea level rise
TGIF funded student assessment
Proposed Comprehensive Sea Level Rise Assessment
In proposed resiliency plan
Implementation of Comprehensive Sea Level Rise Assessment
Identification of most vulnerable areas
Movement/Protection of potentially affected sewage pipes, structures, etc.

9. Sea Level Rise

10. Food In current plans In proposed resiliency plan Campus farms
Local buying
45% of produce grown and distributed within 250 miles of campus
In proposed resiliency plan
Address changing menus
Consider eliminating water intense crops from our diets
Research nutrition possibilities of the future

11. Carbon Sequestration In current plans In proposed resiliency plan
Campus Urban Forest
Strategically planted trees
Energy savings
Ability to warm and cool buildings
Use of MyTreeKeeper
In proposed resiliency plan
Mandate that all development must take carbon sequestration into account

12. Energy In current plans In proposed resiliency plan
Increased use of renewable energy
In proposed resiliency plan
Future of energy planning
Disconnecting from the grid?
Emergency solar (DC Solar)
Storage strategies
Right side here is more of a list of possibilities than certainties

13. Conclusion We should develop a resiliency plan
Already have identified many vulnerabilities
More well-rounded approach to carbon and climate planning
Climate change inevitable
Need plans for an unfamiliar world