News & Events
Filter news and events:
NW CASC University Director Meade Krosby Joins Secretary Haaland’s New Advisory Council for Climate Adaptation Science
Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center’s University Director, Dr. Meade Krosby, has been chosen to serve on Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland’s new Advisory Council for Climate Adaptation Science (ACCAS). Dr.
Read more
Tribal Climate Resilience Liaisons Connect Regional Tribes with Resources Across the CASC Network
The Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Branch of Tribal Climate Resilience (TCR), the USGS Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASCs), Tribal Nations and regional Tribal organizations collaborate to support a national network of Tribal Climate Resilience Liaisons (Tribal Liaisons) who connect Tribes with resources to support their climate adaptation efforts.
Read more
Welcoming Our 2023-24 NW CASC Research Fellows
Join us in welcoming our 2023-24 NW CASC Research Fellows as they kick off their fellowship activities this fall! Each year, the NW CASC’s Research Fellowship Program enables a cohort of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from NW CASC’s consortium universities to develop decision-relevant science in collaboration with regional natural resource managers and decision-makers.
Read more
Faces of Adaptation: Meet Leona Svancara
Leona Svancara is the new assistant regional administrator of the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center. Her research interests include assessing the effects of climate and landscape change on at-risk fish and wildlife species and their habitats and identifying and implementing conservation actions to address those effects.
Read more
Faces of Adaptation: Meet Kylie Avery
Kylie Avery is the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center’s Assistant Tribal Climate Resilience Liaison through the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI). Kylie is an enrolled Shawnee Tribal Citizen and is based in Seattle, Washington.
Read more
NW CASC Researchers Headed to Annual Ecological Society of America Meeting
Researchers from the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center will be gathering at the 108th Annual Ecological Society of America meeting, to be held in Portland, Oregon the week of August 6-11.
Read more
Faces of Adaptation: Meet Upekala Wijayratne
Upekala Wijayratne, a member of the NW CASC Advisory Committee, is an ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service, in the Northwest Oregon Area Ecology Program. She is based at the Mt.
Read more
New CASC Tribal Liaison Handout Available Now
The Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Branch of Tribal Climate Resilience, the USGS Climate Adaptation Science Centers, and several Tribal Nations and organizations are collaborating to support a nationwide network of Tribal climate resilience liaisons, each of whom works directly with a regional CASC to connect resources to federally-recognized Tribes in climate adaptation efforts: check out a new handout that describes the program and contains contact information for the current CASC Tribal Liaisons.
See the Handout
Tribal Climate Camp Brings Together CASC Regional Tribes to Advance Climate Action
Written by NW CASC Senior Tribal Climate Resilience Liaison Amelia Marchand & Assistant Tribal Climate Resilience Liaison Kylie Avery
This past March, the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) held their fifth Tribal Climate Camp (TCC) alongside co-host Navajo Technical University, with funding and support from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Tribal Climate Resilience Program and the Northwest, North Central, and Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Centers.
Faces of Adaptation: Meet Harriet Morgan
Harriet Morgan is the climate change coordinator for Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). In close collaboration with internal and external partners, Harriet is working to facilitate the development and implementation of a coordinated agency response to the impacts of climate change at WDFW.
Read more