Our Research Fellowship Program and Faculty Fellowship Program support climate adaptation research and provide training in the principles and practice of actionable science. 

Our Research Fellowship program provides competitive, one-year fellowships to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at our consortium universities to conduct actionable climate adaptation research. This program enables graduate students and postdocs from a variety of scientific backgrounds to collaborate with natural resource managers and decision-makers while receiving training in the principles of actionable science.

Similarly, our Faculty Fellowship Program program provides funding to small cohorts of faculty across the NW CASC consortium, along with a condensed version of the actionable science training provided in the Research Fellowship Program. Instead of funding new climate adaptation projects, the Faculty Fellowship Program provides funding to translate existing research that aligns with NW CASC science priorities into a format easily used by resource managers in their climate adaptation decisions. For this reason, it’s considered a “last mile” program, helping researchers take their science the last mile past publication to make sure findings are accessible and useful to decision makers.