Marin County’s Collaboration: Sea-level Marin Adaptation Response Team (C-SMART), announced that Isaac Pearlman has joined the staff as Manager of the Adaptation and Resilience Collaboration (ARC) for the Stinson Beach area.
Prior to coming to Marin County, Isaac spent two years with BCDC, where he evaluated sea level rise vulnerability and climate policy as part of the Adapting to Rising Tides program. He then was selected as a Fulbright recipient to research coastal flood risk in Panama and just returned from there, having completed his project. Isaac received his bachelor’s degree from UC San Diego and a master’s from UC Santa Barbara, where he also spent two years as a sustainable fisheries project manager and researcher.
A Marin County native, Isaac served in the Peace Corps in both Peru and the Philippines. He has also worked as a FEMA floodplain specialist reviewing environmental compliance of post-disaster rebuild projects, and as a Sea Grant Fellow with California State Parks. His articles on climate adaptation have been published in Sierra Magazine, Estuary News, and KneeDeep Times, among other outlets.
One of Isaac’s first tasks is bringing the contract for ESA, the consulting firm selected under the grant provided by the Ocean Protection Council, to the Board of Supervisors on July 12. With that, the ARC project will be fully underway; you can expect to hear from us in the coming weeks.
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