The Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center’s new Faculty Fellowship Program aims to expand the community of Northwest researchers equipped to effectively co-produce actionable adaptation science. We are now accepting applications for our 2026 cohort. Learn more!

Source: University of Washington

Launching in the 2025 calendar year, the Faculty Fellowship Program builds upon the successful model of our Research Fellowship Program to provide one year of funding to annual cohorts of faculty across our Consortium, as well as training in actionable science principles and practices.

This “last-mile” program supports the translation of new research that may be aligned with the actionable science priorities of the NW CASC, but is not yet in a format easily applied to decision-making. The Faculty Fellowship Program will support participants in collaborating effectively with resource managers to co-produce translational products (e.g., tools, databases, protocols, workshops) derived from recent research to make it readily accessible and useful to decision-makers.

While actionable science is most reliably achieved through engagement with intended users from project inception, this program offers an on-ramp to co-production for faculty in need of the collaborative and technical skills required, while producing useful products to inform the adaptation decisions of Northwest resource managers.

The NW CASC Faculty Fellowship Program supports research that is:

1. relevant to management decisions related to identifying and addressing climate impacts on Northwest natural and cultural resource management;
2. relevant to primary NW CASC stakeholders; and
3. focused in NW CASC’s geographic domain, i.e., Idaho, Oregon, Washington and surrounding river basins (e.g., western Montana, northern California)

The NW CASC Faculty Fellowship Program provides training in actionable science through:

• An actionable science workshop
• Quarterly cohort calls 

Program Timing & Eligibility

• The NW CASC Faculty Fellowship Program is a one-year program, starting at the beginning of each calendar year. 
• The research funded through this program must be led by a faculty member or a non-faculty scientist with primary investigator status at a NW CASC Consortium institution (UW, BSU, NWIC, OSU, PSU, UM, WSU or WWU) who is committed to participating in the Fellowship training activities described above. Please note that Faculty will only be funded for a maximum of one Fellowship year, during which the project must be designed to produce substantive results and deliverables during the fellowship year.