Gary Griggs is a Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of California Santa Cruz, where he has taught for 58 years. He received his B.A. in Geological Sciences in 1965 from the University of California Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from Oregon State University in 1968. Gary served as the Director of the University’s Institute of Marine Sciences for 26 years, where he led the development of a Coastal Science Campus. His research, teaching, writing, and lectures have focused on the coast of California and include coastal processes, hazards, and the impacts of and responses to sea level rise. ASBPA honored him with the Joe Johnson Coastal Research Award in 2003 and the Robert Dean Coastal Academic Award in 2022. The California Coastal Commission and Sunset Magazine named him one of California’s Coastal Heroes. He also chaired the California Ocean Protection Council’s Committee that produced the report, Rising Seas in California – An Update on Sea Level Rise Science in 2017. Gary has written 14 books including: Living with the Changing California Coast; Introduction to California’s Beaches and Coast, The California Coast from the Air, Coasts in Crisis – A Global Challenge; The Edge – The Pressured Past and Precarious Future of California’s Coast; Between Paradise and Peril – The Natural Disaster History of the Monterey Bay Region; and The Ominous Ocean: Rogue Waves, Rip Currents and other Dangers along the Shoreline and at Sea.