Ocean Cities follows host Professor Tim Beatley as he interacts with visionaries in coastal cities in the United States, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and in The Netherlands to explore how we can connect our urban populations the sea around them, and what needs to be done now to meet the challenge of sea level rise.

Chuck Davis holds an M.F.A. in Film from USC and has directed 12 documentaries almost all of which have been aired on American and Canadian Public Television. He works in Boulder Colorado with his film production company Throughline productions,

Tim Beatley is the chair of the Department of Urban Planning at the University of Virginia He was also host of the nationally acclaimed The Nature Of Cities which he made with Chuck Davis in 2009