The Center for Coastal and Climate Science and Resilience is an inter-disciplinary collaboration among university, community, and government partners to address critical and emerging issues relating to all aspects of coastal science and management throughout Hawai’i and the US-affiliated Pacific islands. The center promotes applied research, outreach, and education to build coastal community resiliency and environmental conservation. Hawai’i Sea Grant researchers and extension agents working through the center are able to significantly expand project impacts and outcomes through increased collaboration and involvement of multidisciplinary center faculty. The center engages a broad range of regional stakeholders involved in coastal community resilience and coastal ecosystem management to inform the center’s research agenda and improve sustainable management of public coastal resources and shoreline land use.