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Register for NW CASC’s 12/12 CV ReWorkshop: Updating Your CV to Contextualize Your Contributions in Societally Engaged Research
Join the NW CASC’s interactive workshop on December 12, designed to support you in incorporating narrative elements into your CV that help contextualize your skills and experiences and better communicate your work.
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NW CASC’s 2023 Deep Dive Products Now Available
After months of collaborative work, the NW CASC is excited to share the products from its 2023 Deep Dive, Rising Seas and the Coastal Squeeze: Managing Inland Migration of Coastal Habitats in Response to Sea Level Rise, which convened Northwest scientists, natural resource managers and communities to collaboratively review what is known about coastal squeeze and to identify research and capacity needs for building resilience of shoreline and estuarine habitats in a changing climate.
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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.
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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.
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Call for Co-Authors: Volume 2 of the Status of Tribes and Climate Change Report
Convened by the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals, the Status of Tribes and Climate Change Working Group invites individuals with a passion for tribal communities, climate change, and Indigenous knowledges to express their interest in co-authoring Volume 2 of the Status of Tribes and Climate Change Report by filling out a form by September 14, 2023.
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Now Hiring! NW CASC Postdoctoral ORISE Fellow
The NW CASC is now hiring a postdoctoral ORISE Fellow to support the development of a next-generation version of the Climate Change Vulnerability Index (CCVI), a tool used by state and other wildlife management partners to conduct climate change vulnerability assessments for species.
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University of Washington Awarded Federal Funding to Host an Expanded Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center
The University of Washington has been awarded $7.4 million to continue hosting the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (NW CASC) for the next five years, leading a broad consortium of Northwest university and tribal partners to support natural and cultural resource managers in responding to climate risks and promoting regional resilience.
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NW CASC Study Uses Drones to Collect Samples for Assessing Tree Health in a Changing Climate
Across the Northwest, hotter and drier conditions are affecting tree health and stressing our forests, spurring scientists and forest managers to seek practices that help our forests cope under climate change.
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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.
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UW Climate Impacts Group Hiring Climate Resilience Specialist
The UW Climate Impacts Group, host of the NW CASC, is hiring Climate Resilience Specialist to synthesize literature, engage with partners and apply research on climate impacts and adaptation, with a focus on resilience planning, prioritization and effectiveness.
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