Publications

• Stoltz, A.D., Kotowicz, D.M., Buckel, C.A., Passeri, D.L., Collini, R., Woodard, N., and Martin, S. 2026. "From Model to Action: Identifying the Gaps in Coastal Marsh Models for Decision Making." Wetlands (In Press)
• Lentz, E.E., Passeri, D.L., Zeigler, S.L., White, K., Wahl, T., Stoltz, A.D., Pendleton, E.A., Misra, S., Meckley, T., Hamlington, B., Ganju, N., Cravens, A.E., Carr, J., and Buckel, C.A. 2026. "Challenges and Opportunities for National‐Scale Projections of Future Coastal Landscape Change" Earth's Future
• Stoltz, A.D., Leauthaud, A., Criss, A., Palkovacs, E.P., Ackerly, D.D., and Faber S.M. 2026. " How North American Universities Are Driving Climate Change Education." Sustainability
• Stoltz, A.D., Won, O.M., Gee, K.C., Seto, K.L. 2025. “Environmental Justice of Coastal Hazards: A Systematic Literature Review of Climate and Coasts.” Climatic Change
• Stoffle B.W., Stoltz A.D. 2025. "Heritage Littoral Landscapes in African Ancestry Coastal Communities of Bath Plantation Land, St. John, Barbados." Geology, Earth and Marine Sciences
• Stoltz, A.D. 2025. “Pacifica: A Poem on Coastal Resilience.” Disaster Prevention and Management
• Stoltz, A.D. 2024. “Building Resilience to Coastal Hazards: An Analysis of Decision-Making and Environmental Justice on Changing Coasts” UC Santa Cruz Electronic Theses and Dissertations
• Stoltz, A.D., Cravens, A.E., Lentz, E., and Himmelstoss, E. 2023. “User Engagement to Improve Coastal Data Access and Delivery.” USGS Scientific Investigations Report
• ​​Restrepo-Osorio, D.L., Stoltz, A.D. and Herman-Mercer, N.M. 2022. “Stakeholder Engagement to Guide Decision-Relevant Water Data Delivery.” J Am Water Resour Assoc.
• Stoltz, A.D., Herman-Mercer, N., Cravens, A.E. 2022. “So you want to build a decision support tool? Assessing successes, pitfalls, and lessons learned for tool design and development.” USGS Scientific Investigations Report
• Blake, S. D.; McPherson, M.; Karnauskas, M.; Sagarese, S.R.; Rios, A.; Stoltz, A.D.; Mastiski, A.; Jepson, M. 2022. “Use of Fishermen’s Local Ecological Knowledge to Understand Historic Red Tide Severity Patterns.” Marine Policy, 145, 105253.
• Stoffle, B. W., and A. D. Stoltz. 2021. “Yellowtail Snapper: Human-Ecological Relationships in the South Florida Fishery.” The Journal of Ecological Anthropology
• Dudley, Peter N.; Rogers, T.L.; Morales, M.M.; Stoltz, A.D.; Sheridan, C.J.; Beulke, A.K.; Pomeroy, C.; Carr, 2021. “A More Comprehensive Climate Vulnerability Assessment Framework for Fisheries Social-Ecological Systems.” Frontiers in Marine Science 8: 674.
• Stoltz, A.D.; Shivlani,M.; Glazer, R. Fishing Industry Perspectives on Sea-Level Rise Risk and Adaptation. Water 2021, 13, 1124. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13081124
• Bragg, W.K.; Gonzalez, S.T.; Rabearisoa, A.; Stoltz, A.D. Communicating Managed Retreat in California. Water 2021, 13, 781.
• Turley, B., M. Karnauskas, M. McPherson, S. Sagarese, A. Rios, M. Jepson, A. Stoltz and S. Blake. 2021. Local ecological knowledge outlining severe red tide events between 2000 – 2019 on the West Florida Shelf. SEDAR72-DW-09. SEDAR, North Charleston, SC. 19 pp. 
• Stoffle, B., Stoltz, A.D., and S. Crosson. 2020. In the Wake of Two Storms: An Impact Assessment of Hurricanes Irma and Maria on the St. Croix and St. Thomas Fisheries. Applied Anthropology.
• Karnauskas, M., M. McPherson, S. Sagarese, A. Rios, M. Jepson, A.D. Stoltz and S. Blake.  2019. Timeline of severe red tide events on the West Florida Shelf: insights from oral histories. SEDAR61-WP-20. SEDAR, North Charleston, SC. 16 pp.
• Stoltz, A. D., "Determining Resilience in Cedar Key, Fort Myers Beach, and Conch Key: Fishing Industry Views on Sea Level Rise Risk and Adaptation" (2018). Open Access Theses. 729.

Presentations (Presenting Author)

• "No Coastal Justice without Environmental Justice: A Systematic Literature Review of Climate and Coasts," 50th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, 2025
  
• "Environmental Justice on the Coast: A Systematic Literature Review," MR2025: Mobility, Adaptation, and Wellbeing in a Changing Climate, 2025
  
• “No Coastal Justice without Justice: A Systematic Literature Review,” Society for Applied Anthropology, 2025
  
• “Modeling Marsh Migration on the U.S. East Coast: Do the Goals of Scientists Align with the Needs of Coastal Decisionmakers?” Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2024 (presented by Erika Lentz)
  
• “An Analysis of USGS Coastal Hazards Stakeholders: Blind Spots and Opportunities for Increasing the Diversity of Voices in Coastal Research” Society for Applied Anthropology, 2024
  
• "The Coastal Science Navigator: An Online Gateway to USGS Coastal Change Hazards Information," Social Coast, 2024
• “Stakeholder Engagement Informing Coastal Data Delivery,” American Shore and Beach Preservation Association, 2023
• “Barriers to Scientific Information for Coastal Decision-makers Working to Increase Coastal Community Resilience,” Society for Applied Anthropology, 2023
• “USGS Coastal Change Hazards Guided Discovery Hub,” Coastal GeoTools, 2023
• “A Comprehensive Framework for Mapping Potential Climate Change Impacts on Fisheries Socio-ecological Systems,” Society for Applied Anthropology, 2022
• “Two Storms and a Virus: An Examination of Adaptation to Perturbations in the USVI Fisheries,” Society for Applied Anthropology, 2022
• “Communicating Managed Retreat in California,” Society for Applied Anthropology, 2021
• “Stakeholder Engagement to Inform Integrated Water Availability Assessment Data Delivery,” USGS Water Mission Area Seminar Series, 2020
• “A Comprehensive Framework for Mapping Potential Climate Change Impacts on Fisheries Socio-ecological Systems,” Western Society of Naturalists, 2020
• “Interdisciplinary Teamwork: When Social Scientists and Natural Scientists Work Together,” An event hosted at the North American Congress for Conservation Biology, 2020
• “What Unites Us Is Greater than What Divides Us: An Examination of the Yellowtail Commercial and Recreational Fisheries in South Florida,” Society for Applied Anthropology, 2019
• “Human Ecological Relationships between Natural Resource Users and Natural Resources: An Examination of the Florida Keys Yellowtail Snapper Fishery,” NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center, 2019
• “Determining Resilience in Cedar Key, Fort Myers Beach, and Conch Key: Fishing Industry Views on Sea Level Rise Risk and Adaptation,” Poster presentation at the Society for Applied Anthropology, 2019                       
• “The Power of Reputational Risk: Driving Supply Chain Transformation in the Palm Oil Industry and Beyond,” Power Shift Southeast, 2016 

Invited Talks

• Stakeholder Perspective of Local Societal Needs (Panel Moderator), The U.S. Coastal Research Program Decadal Visioning Workshop, 2024
• Is Conservation “for the Birds?”: More Lessons Learned and Pathways for Integrating the Social Sciences into Equitable Conservation and Natural Resource Management (Panel Discussion), Society for Applied Anthropology, 2024
• So, you want to build a decision-support tool? Assessing successes, barriers, and lessons learned for tool design and development (Panel Discussion), USGS Risk Community of Practice, 2023
• Is Conservation “For the Birds”? Challenges and Opportunities for Incorporating Human Dimensions into Natural Resource Management and Conservation for more Equitable and Just Outcomes (Panel Discussion), Society for Applied Anthropology, 2023
• Earth and Planetary Science: Science & Justice (Panel Discussion), University of California, Santa Cruz, 2022
• Communicating Managed Retreat in California, California’s Social Coast Forum, 2022 
• Profiling St. Croix Fisheries, University of Arizona, 2021

  
Outreach

• Amanda won the 2025 Ocean Decade Video Competition with a video titled, "Amanda Stoltz is a Coastal Social Scientist!" 
• Amanda was quoted in a Sierra Club article titled, A Tale of Two Sea Level Rise Solutions
• Amanda has been featured in E&E News for her research about communicating managed retreat in California here and here
• Amanda created an interactive and free website to teach high schoolers about groundwater in Monterey Bay
• Burning Paradise: Palm Oil in the Land of the Tree Kangaroo, is an interactive website that was designed and written by Amanda while she interned at Mighty Earth, the environmental campaign arm of Waxman Strategies.
• While working as a manager at The Writer's Center  in Bethesda, Amanda made several contributions to The Writer's Guide including Life and Writing Advice from Isabel Allende and Inside New York Comic Con.
• Amanda's freelance writing also includes poetry and poetry reviews. Her review of Goddess Wears Cowboy Boots by Katherine Hoerth can be found in the online pages of PANK, a literary magazine. 
• Amanda has also been featured in the Global Fishing Watch blog, MPA Survey Hints at Complexity of Marine Conservation.

Awards
The Ocean Decade Video Competition Travel Grant (2025)
Selected for a NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture grant: Bvlbancha Rising: Louisiana Landmarks and Climate Change Challenges (Canceled; 2025)
The STAR Award, U.S. Geological Survey (2024)
The UCSC Newton Drury Endowment (2020)
The CONCUR, Inc. Scholarship Award in Environmental Studies (2020)
The UCSC Blum Scholar Grant (2020)
The 2020 Edward H. and Rosamond B. Spicer Student Travel Award
University of Miami Academic Scholarship
University of Miami Propeller Club Scholarship Award