NASA joined with other Federal government agencies, academia, and non-profit organizations for the establishment of the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Resilience Institute (MACRI) at the Wallops Flight Facility June 9. MACRI will be the platform to combine and leverage the capabilities of participating institutions to provide an unprecedented integration of science and its applications to understand, predict, and integrate resilience into local, state, and regional policy planning for both human and natural coastal communities. MACRI participants include the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s, Wallops Flight Facility and Goddard Institute of Space Science; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; U.S. Geological Survey; Chincoteague Bay Field Station of the Marine Science Consortium, the Universities of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware; the College of William and Mary; and The Nature Conservancy. Credit: NASA/Eileen Rivera