The Conrad Blucher Institute AI2ES program is a partnership with the NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES) and other local community stakeholders. As a partner of the institute, the Conrad Blucher Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi will lead research in Coastal AI and partner with Del Mar College to develop a new innovative Certificate in Artificial Intelligence. AI models will include developing coastal fog and inundation predictions to support commerce and emergency management as well as predictive models to help with the conservation of endangered sea turtles. TAMU-CC will work with institute partners to use explainable AI (XAI) to better understand coastal processes and with local agencies and institute partners to better understand the communication of AI predictions to end users.