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Applications Now Open: 2023 Science to Action Fellowship Program
Applications are now being accepted for the 2023 National CASC Science to Action Fellowship program, which supports graduate students from CASC consortium institutions in developing a product that applies scientific research related to climate change impacts on fish, wildlife, or ecosystems to decision making about natural resources.
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Upcoming NW CASC Webinar: Transforming Academic Promotion & Surviving in the Academic System as an Action Scientist
In NW CASC’s upcoming actionable science webinar, Dr. Jessica Hellmann, Consortium Director of the Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, Executive Director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, and co-author of The Guidebook for the Engaged University, will discuss university promotion systems and how they can encourage researchers to use engaged scholarship to address society’s big challenges.
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ORISE Research Opportunity Available Through North Central & Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Centers
An ORISE research opportunity is currently available with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) through the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (NC CASC) and the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (NW CASC), supporting their work producing science to inform on-the-ground climate adaptation planning by natural and cultural resource managers.
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UW Climate Impacts Group is Hiring a Research Science to Focus on Hydrology
The UW Climate Impacts Group (CIG) is hiring a new, full-time Research Scientist with a focus on hydrologic change in the northwestern U.S. The Research Scientist will work with CIG’s lead scientists to co-produce applied research, synthesize literature and engage with partners on climate impacts and adaptation related to hydrologic change in the region.
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UW Climate Impacts Group is Hiring a Research Scientist to Focus on Ecosystems & Invasive Species
The UW Climate Impacts Group is hiring a new, full-time Research Scientist with a focus on ecosystems and invasive species. The Research Scientist will support co-produced research and synthesis projects led by the Climate Impacts Group’s senior scientists and work with the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center to coordinate the Northwest Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change Network.
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Explore NW CASC’s New Set of Projects Focused on Invasives, Shrublands & Ecological Transformation
USGS-directed research funding, administered by the federal side of the NW CASC’s federal-university partnership, supports a portfolio of regional climate adaptation projects each year. Like all of the research the NW CASC supports, these projects align with research priorities outlined in our five-year Science Agenda, developed through collaboration between regional natural resource managers and scientists.
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Welcome 2022-23 Research Fellows!
We are thrilled to welcome our 2022-23 research fellows as they kick off their fellowship activities this fall! Our fellows represent each of our consortium universities and will be conducting research that aligns with the NW CASC science priorities and meets real-world climate adaptation needs.
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How Rising Water Temperatures and Changing Ocean Chemistry are Affecting Surf Smelt – A Small Fish with a Big Impact
Little Fish with a Big Job
Surf smelt may be small, but it plays a big role in the marine food web in the North Pacific ocean ecosystem. Like herring and sand lance, surf smelt is a type of forage fish – small, schooling fish that eat microscopic organisms and are consumed by larger predators.
Faces of Adaptation: Meet Tyler Hoecker
Tyler Hoecker, NW CASC’s climate adaptation postdoctoral fellow, is part of a national cohort of fellows leading regionally focused research projects related to climate-fire-vegetation dynamics through the Climate Adaptation Postdoctoral Fellows Program.
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Seeking Postdoc Focused on Climate and the Future of Aquatic Flows
Are you a researcher interested in the nexus of climate change and aquatic flows? The Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (NW CASC), in partnership with Boise State University, is searching for a postdoctoral scholar – with a passion for developing science that meets real-world needs – to lead regionally focused research related to modeling aquatic flows under climate change.
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