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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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Registration Now Open! 2023 Northwest Regional Invasive Species & Climate Change Network Symposium
Register today for the 2023 Northwest Regional Invasive Species & Climate Change Symposium, September 7-8, 2023. This free, virtual, 2-day event will include talks from more than 15 invasive species and climate change experts as well as a virtual networking event!
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Now Open! Call for Abstracts and Sessions at Virtual Northwest Climate Conference, October 2-4
Organizers of the 12th Northwest Climate Conference (NWCC) are now accepting abstract and session proposal submissions for this year’s Conference, to be hosted virtually by Boise State University on October 2-4, 2023 — for more than a decade, this conference has provided a networking and learning community for practitioners, scientists, tribal members, and community organizers interested in climate change impacts and adaptation in the Northwest.
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Funding Opportunity: Bureau of Indian Affairs Tribal Climate Resilience Program Now Accepting Applications for 2023 Annual Awards Program
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Branch of Tribal Climate Resilience (TCR) is now accepting applications for its Fiscal Year 2023 Annual Awards Program. TCR will make available approximately $120 million in funding for Tribes and tribal organizations to address the unique impacts of climate change affecting vulnerable tribal communities.
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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.
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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.
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NW CASC Study Uses Remote Sensing to Assess the Impact of Snow Algae on Snowmelt in the North Cascades
If you happen to find yourself hiking in snow-covered areas of Northwest mountains this summer, you may come across a strange sight — large stretches of pinkish red snow. This phenomenon, sometimes referred to as “watermelon snow,” is not as benign as it sounds.
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