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Coastal communities are subject to dynamic coastal processes resulting in erosion, flooding, melting sea ice, and extreme weather that make subsistence and commercial maritime activities hazardous. This is especially true for remote Indigenous villages along the Pacific Northwest, Pacific Islands, and the Alaskan coasts who rely on the sea for food security and cultural preservation. These speakers will provide an overview of the Backyard Buoys project, which aims to leverage low-cost and scalable marine technology to connect western science and Indigenous Knowledge to empower coastal communities to collect, steward, understand, and utilize real-time wave data from areas where it matters to them, under their direction, thus providing another tool to complement traditional knowledge and practices and increase safety.