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NW CASC Researchers and Collaborators Publish New Study on Centering Socioecological Connections to Collaboratively Manage Post-Fire Vegetation Shifts
Wildfires are changing as the climate warms, and so too are the ways in which some ecosystems are responding to fire. In the Northwest and other regions around the world, changes in wildfires (read: bigger, more frequent, and in some cases, more severe), combined with warmer and drier conditions, are making it difficult for some ecosystems to return to their former states after fire.
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Faces of Adaptation: Meet Patrick Freeland
Patrick Austin Freeland is the new Senior Tribal Climate Resilience Liaison for the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI). Patrick is Este Hotvltvlke Mvskokvlke (Wind Clan, Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma) and brings a deep commitment to advancing sovereignty and fostering collaborative efforts to address climate change.
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Info Session for 2025 Faculty Fellowship Program RFP | May 8 at 1pm PT
In our upcoming virtual information session, NW CASC Consortium Director Meade Krosby will provide a brief overview of the NW CASC, the Faculty Fellowship Program and application process, followed by an open question and answer session from participants.
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NW CASC Now Accepting Proposals for NEW Faculty Fellowship Program
We are now accepting proposals through July 15, 2024 for our new Faculty Fellowship Program, designed to support cohorts of faculty in our Consortium in taking their research beyond peer-reviewed papers to formats more easily applied to decision-making of Northwest resource managers.
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Upcoming NW CASC Webinar Panel: Early Career Reflections from the Climate Adaptation Field
The Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center’s spring webinar — Early Career Reflections from the Climate Adaptation Field: Landing and Navigating Jobs After Graduate School — will be held on Thursday, April 25 at 11:00 am PT and will feature a panel of early career researchers who have recently navigated the Northwest job market and landed positions related to climate adaptation across a range of sectors.
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Climate Impacts Group, Partners Release Fourth PNW Water Year Assessment
As drought persists across parts of Washington and the Pacific Northwest, a team of scientists have developed an annual assessment (including a summary in Spanish) to help water managers and agricultural producers prepare for dry conditions and other weather extremes.
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Faces of Adaptation: Meet Alison Ainsworth
We are excited to announce that Alison Ainsworth has joined our NW CASC Advisory Committee! Alison Ainsworth is a science advisor and ecologist for the National Park Service (NPS) and an affiliate assistant professor in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington (UW).
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Job Opportunity! The UW Climate Impacts Group is Hiring a Research Scientist to Support Climate Justice Research and Outreach
The UW Climate Impacts Group, Consortium host of the NW CASC, is hiring a research scientist to support climate justice research and outreach through the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative. Applicant screening will begin on March 25, 2024.
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Upcoming National CASC Webinar Series: Incorporating Climate & Environmental Justice into Research and Resource Management
You are invited to an upcoming webinar series exploring the role of climate and environmental justice in environmental research and resource management! The webinars will run bi-weekly from Thursday, Feb 29 to Thursday, May 9, 2024 (noon-1 PM PT).
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Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative Now Accepting Applications for its NEW Science Justice Summer School
Are you a University of Washington grad student or postdoc interested in applying climate and environmental justice frameworks in your work? Consider applying to the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative’s first-ever Science Justice Summer School!
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