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What Remains After Wildfire on the Wet Westside of the Cascades?
What remains after wildfire in the typically wet forests of the northwest Cascades? The University of Washington’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences recently sat down with UW postdoctoral researcher Jenna Morris and UW professor and researcher Brian Harvey to discuss the findings of a new study exploring how westside forests are shaped by infrequent and high-severity fires.
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Now Accepting Applications for the NW CASC 2026-2027 Research Fellowship Program!
We are now accepting applications for our 2026-2027 Research Fellowship Program, which supports climate adaptation research and provides training in developing decision-relevant science. The deadline to submit applications is March 9, 2026.
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Meet NW CASC’s 2025-26 Research Fellows and Faculty Fellows!
Join us in welcoming our new cohorts of NW CASC Research Fellows and Faculty Fellows! These Fellows will conduct one-year projects in collaboration with regional natural resource managers, while receiving training in the practice of actionable science.
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Extreme Heat Deep Dive Products Now Available
After months of collaborative work, the NW CASC is excited to share a suite of products from its 2025 Deep Dive — Too Hot to Handle? Managing the Ecological Impacts of Extreme Heat in the Northwest — including a summary report, a key findings overview, three synthesis reports, a case study, compiled lists of relevant online tools, and a list of proposed project ideas.
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Similar Species, Divergent Futures: Rethinking Climate Indicator Species
Written by guest author Gavin Graham, summer 2025 NW CASC science communications intern
Is there a shortcut to saving species that are affected by our changing climate? For one group of Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center-supported researchers, what started as an attempt to understand how the changing climate affects a group of threatened amphibians in the Northwest, led them to unexpected findings and insights about species management in a changing climate.
New NW CASC-Supported Study Explores Climate Impacts on Pinto Abalone in Washington
Pinto abalone was once plentiful in Washington’s waters but has declined by a shocking 97% since the early 1990s. What is causing this massive decline in population? A new Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center-supported study, led by former NW CASC Research Fellow Eileen Bates and other researchers from University of Washington, Puget Sound Restoration Fund, and Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife explores how climate warming and ocean acidification are threatening hatchery-raised abalone in the early life stages.
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Invasive Species Science at the NW CASC
Invasive species are an ongoing focus of the NW CASC’s efforts to fund and facilitate actionable science, which have included research on more than 24 invasive species since 2011 across Northwestern habitats ranging from Puget Sound prairies to sagebrush steppe, from coastal wetlands to high elevation forests.
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Surprises in the Klamath: How disease, invasives, and warming waters are affecting redband trout
Written by guest author Heidi Shepard, NW CASC communications graduate research assistant for the winter 2025 quarter
Upper Klamath Lake in south-central Oregon is perhaps the last place one might think of as being trout habitat.
Updated Climate Change Vulnerability Index (Release 4.0) Includes New Features to Support Climate Adaptation Planning for Species
A new release of NatureServe’s widely-used Climate Change Vulnerability Index (CCVI) is now available, providing natural-resource managers with a rapid and cost-effective way to evaluate species’ relative vulnerability to climate change in specific geographies.
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Meet NW CASC’s New Research Fellows and Faculty Fellows!
Please join us in welcoming the new NW CASC Research Fellows and Faculty Fellows! These Fellows will conduct one-year projects in collaboration with regional natural resource managers, while receiving training in the practice of actionable science.
Meet the Fellows