The Institute for Coastal Adaptation and Resilience (ICAR) is an interdisciplinary research-to-practice institute at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. ICAR's mission is to advance the practice of coastal resilience and adaptation by engaging with communities, organizations, and businesses to develop and deploy solutions based on integrated, innovative, and applied research. ICAR catalyzes the action needed to build vibrant communities, strong economies, and healthy ecosystems across the Commonwealth of Virginia despite natural hazards and climate change.

ICAR was launched by an interdisciplinary group of faculty in 2018 to leverage over eight years of ODU investment and leadership in coastal adaptation and resilience scholarship. Buoyed by a $3 million endowment by Joan Perry Brock, ICAR hired an executive director in 2021 and embarked on an organization process to build an interdisciplinary center focused on leading fundamental and applied research, education, and engaged partnerships to develop practical solutions to the challenges coastal communities face. A collaborating member of Virginia's Commonwealth Center for Recurrent Flooding Resiliency, and with key partners including the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the City of Norfolk, and the Elizabeth River Project, ICAR presents unique opportunities to collaborate with other academic institutions, locality, regional, and state government agencies, non-profits, and businesses in Virginia's resilience ecosystem to bring research and data to real world decisions. In 2023, ICAR launched its faculty, student, and community partner affiliation program focused on sea level rise and climate science, social science and policy, flooding and built environments, and the health dimensions of coastal resilience. ICAR catalyzes the action needed to build vibrant communities, strong economies, and healthy ecosystems across the Commonwealth of Virginia despite natural hazards and climate change (https://oduadaptationandresilience.org/).