Michael Abazinge

The mission of The Center for Environmental Equity and Justice is to conduct and facilitate research, develop policies, engage in education, training, and community outreach activities with respect to environmental equity and justice issues for the state of Florida.

The ECSC has four primary and interrelated goals:

•  Increase the number of scientists, particularly from under-represented minority groups in the environmental, coastal and oceanic sciences;
•  Enhance the scientific understanding of human interactions with the coastal environment in support of NOAA’s place-based management;
•  Improve the scientific basis for coastal resource management by developing tools and research products to characterize, evaluate, and forecast coastal and marine ecosystem responses to natural and human induced stressors;
•  Facilitate community education and outreach relating to the function and significance of coastal ecosystems.