👋 Considered applying for the NW CASC's 2027 Faculty Fellowship Program but ran out of time? ⌛ We have good news for you! ✨ We've extended the deadline to August 31! 🔗 bit.ly/3OIjL1q

⏳ One week left to apply for the NW CASC 2027 Faculty Fellowship Program! Faculty in the NW CASC Consortium (BSU, NWIC, OSU, PSU, UM, UW, WSU, WWU) are eligible to apply. Deadline 7/15. Learn more!👇

Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center@nwcasc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for our 2027 Faculty Fellowship Program, supporting NW CASC Consortium faculty to take research beyond peer-reviewed 📰 to formats more easily applied to decision-making of NW resource managers! Info session on May 5 @ 11am PT. DL to apply is July 15, 2026 👉 bit.ly/3OIjL1q

The UW Climate Impacts Group (@cig-uw.bsky.social) is ✨hiring ✨ an early career scientist with a social science or policy background + project management experience. Apply by 7/2 🔗 bit.ly/3QZS5WZ

The International Invasive Species & Climate Change Conference (IISCC) — Dec 1-2, 2026 — is accepting talk abstracts until 6/29! Talks must relate to marine ecosystems, food security, disease, extreme events, and management lessons. Learn more ➡️ www.risccnetwork.org/iisccc-2026

💡 Reminder! We're hosting an info session for those interested in the 2027 Faculty Fellowship Program — TOMORROW, May 5 @ 11 a.m. PT 🔗 bit.ly/3RkJzBy Not sure if you're eligible? Faculty & non-faculty scientists with primary investigator status at UW, BSU, NWIC, OSU, PSU, UM, WSU & WWU can apply!

Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center@nwcasc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for our 2027 Faculty Fellowship Program, supporting NW CASC Consortium faculty to take research beyond peer-reviewed 📰 to formats more easily applied to decision-making of NW resource managers! Info session on May 5 @ 11am PT. DL to apply is July 15, 2026 👉 bit.ly/3OIjL1q

Claire Willing, UW asst. professor of environmental and forest sciences & current NW CASC Faculty Fellow, was just named a 2026 @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Early Career Fellow! Claire's research focuses on how microbes respond, and help plants cope with, environmental change. 🍄🌲🔥👉 bit.ly/4tirqCA

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for our 2027 Faculty Fellowship Program, supporting NW CASC Consortium faculty to take research beyond peer-reviewed 📰 to formats more easily applied to decision-making of NW resource managers! Info session on May 5 @ 11am PT. DL to apply is July 15, 2026 👉 bit.ly/3OIjL1q

⏳ 🗓️ Applications for NW CASC's 2026-27 Research Fellowship Program are due Monday, March 9! Reach out if you have any questions 📧 nwcasc@uw.edu

Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center@nwcasc.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🔥 🌲 ⛰️ ❄️ 🦫 🌊 🦀 🐝 It's that time of year again! Grad students & postdocs doing #ClimateChange research @ BSU, OSU, PSU, UM, UW, WSU and WWU — You can now APPLY for NW CASC's 2026-27 Research Fellowship Program, supporting research+training in actionable sci! Deadline Mar 9 bit.ly/45RnoHC 1/4

🌿 Happy World Seagrass Day (3/1)! 🌿 At NW CASC, we're proud to support Research Fellow Maria Garcia's work with partners @ WA DNR & Ecology to understand how native and non-native eelgrass (a type of seagrass) are supporting fish & crustaceans in Willapa Bay as the climate changes bit.ly/46BxE7z

The NW CASC Research Fellowship Program is still accepting applications through Mar 9! If you have questions about the program or application process, register for our info session TOMORROW — Thurs, Feb 12 @ 10am PT to learn more! 🔗 bit.ly/3LDrpZn

🔥 🌲 ⛰️ ❄️ 🦫 🌊 🦀 🐝 It's that time of year again! Grad students & postdocs doing #ClimateChange research @ BSU, OSU, PSU, UM, UW, WSU and WWU — You can now APPLY for NW CASC's 2026-27 Research Fellowship Program, supporting research+training in actionable sci! Deadline Mar 9 bit.ly/45RnoHC 1/4

Super excited to have been named a NW CASC Faculty Fellow! We will be working with partners in eastern WA to study the role of post-fire fungi in forest recovery!🍄🌲🔥 Thanks to @nwcasc.bsky.social for this awesome support and training opportunity!

Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center@nwcasc.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Drumroll, please! 🥁....Meet our new Research & Faculty Fellows! From examining how fungi can help forests recover from wildfire 🍄🌲🔥, to understanding whether lakes can provide summer refuge for climate-sensitive bull trout, 🌊🌡️🐟, they are advancing climate adaptation across the NW! bit.ly/3LtYqa7

Drumroll, please! 🥁....Meet our new Research & Faculty Fellows! From examining how fungi can help forests recover from wildfire 🍄🌲🔥, to understanding whether lakes can provide summer refuge for climate-sensitive bull trout, 🌊🌡️🐟, they are advancing climate adaptation across the NW! bit.ly/3LtYqa7

If you haven't registered, it's not too late! This Wednesday (11/5) at 2 pm PT! 🔗 bit.ly/4oro4KM

Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center@nwcasc.bsky.social · 10mo ago

✨ Join us for an upcoming webinar with @allisonagsten.bsky.social to learn how to effectively share your stories with the public as an engaged scientist! 🎤 Sharing Your Science with the Media to Highlight its Value to the Public 🗓️ Wed 11/5 @ 2 pm PT 🔗 Register bit.ly/4oro4KM

✨ Join us for an upcoming webinar with @allisonagsten.bsky.social to learn how to effectively share your stories with the public as an engaged scientist! 🎤 Sharing Your Science with the Media to Highlight its Value to the Public 🗓️ Wed 11/5 @ 2 pm PT 🔗 Register bit.ly/4oro4KM

Join us in welcoming Grace Molino @gdmolino.bsky.social, our new Climate Adaptation Postdoctoral Fellow! Grace will collaborate with management partners to examine coastal squeeze of priority ecosystems and species in response to sea level rise in the PNW ▶️ bit.ly/48uwrR4

USGS scientists tell us about the effects of invasive species & climate change. Yet their fate, like many other federal employees who work in science & the environment, is unknown. My latest for @nrdc.org. Thank you to @meadekrosby.bsky.social, John Organ, Ed Arnett, and others for speaking with me.

The Attacks on Science Continue—This Time at the USGS

From sea level rise to bee populations, the agency’s wildlife and climate programs shed light on the world around us.

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Given concerns about continued availability of federal climate info, @cig-uw.bsky.social is hosting a webinar reviewing resources for supporting climate preparedness in WA & the NW, feat. @meadekrosby.bsky.social & Guillaume Mauger 👇 📊 Climate Resources Roundup 🗓️ 10/16 @ 1 pm PT 🔗 bit.ly/46R5uED

A new USGS-led synthesis, supported by NW CASC, uses cutting-edge science to help the Bureau of Land Management understand how shifting precipitation patterns & rising temps are affecting big sagebrush ecosystems, helping support decisions to related to conserving big sagebrush 🔗 bit.ly/4mPkh9x

No lunch plans today? We got you covered! Grab an (iced) ☕, a snack, and join us for an 11 a.m. PT webinar about ☀️ managing the ecological impacts of extreme heat in the NW ☀️ Register here >> bit.ly/41orkgY Thank you @cig-uw.bsky.social for hosting!!

👀 Check it out! Products from our 2025 Deep Dive, Managing the Ecological Impacts of Extreme Heat in the NW, are now available 👉 bit.ly/25DeepDive Members from our Deep Dive team will present a webinar TOMORROW (8/27) @11am PT as part of @cig-uw.bsky.social's new series! Register 👉 bit.ly/41orkgY

A new NW CASC-supported study found four threatened PNW amphibians, despite similar ecology, face very different climate futures — challenging the use of an “indicator species” approach for habitat specialists & guiding wildlife managers toward climate-smart conservation 🔗 Read more bit.ly/4mEs89v

🌲 🌊 UW's @cig-uw.bsky.social, consortium host of the @nwcasc.bsky.social, just launched its bimonthly newsletter to share its research, data, opportunities, and stories of climate resilience in our region! Check out the first issue: bit.ly/457F8ia

August 2025

Letter from the Director I was delighted to join the Climate Impacts Group as the new director this February, and I have so appreciated the warm welcome from the CIG staff, the UW community, and all o...

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👀 A new NW CASC-supported study led by former Research Fellow Eileen Bates, along with researchers from UW, Puget Sound Restoration Fund & WA Dept of Fish & Wildlife explores how climate warming and ocean acidification are threatening hatchery-raised abalone in the early life stages 🔗 bit.ly/4503Voq

A new webinar series on the RAD (Resist-Accept-Direct) Framework — a tool helping resource managers make informed choices for responding to change — kicks off next week! 🔎 RAD Perspectives 🗓️ Thurs 7/24 @ 12pm PT ➡️ Register bit.ly/4kEA6hu Series hosted by the National CASC/Learn more bit.ly/4lnYUvs

Want to prevent a mid-week 🐪 slump? Register for a 🌟 stellar 🌟 panel on Driving Climate Action with Evidence-Based Solutions this Wed 7/16 @ 2pm PT, including @nwcasc.bsky.social's very own @meadekrosby.bsky.social 👉 lu.ma/7agmepme Check out more 🌲 PNW Climate Week events 👉 pnwclimateweek.org/

UW College of the Environment@uwenvironment.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us July 16 for “Driving Climate Action with Evidence-Based Solutions” — a virtual panel during PNW Climate Week. Hear from @uofwa.bsky.social researchers leading projects to tackle #climatechange across ecosystems, oceans and communities. @cig-uw.bsky.social Register today! lu.ma/7agmepme

"There's a lot of evidence that shows that the stronger a community's social cohesion is, the better chances they have of resilience from climate hazards," said Rishi Sugla, climate resilient scientist at the UW Climate Impacts Group. @uofwa.bsky.social @nwcasc.bsky.social

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Earthaven Ecovillage fared remarkably well after Hurricane Helene. The community had backup power and water systems, as well as food supplies, but members also knew how to work together in a crisis.

Join us for some fishy summer fun at our next webinar, "Something Warm in the Water: Temperature, Pathogen, and Invasive Species Impacts on Freshwater Fishes" on Tues., July 15, 11am PT, featuring speakers Jonny Armstrong and Ian Tattam! Register at: bit.ly/NW-RISCC-July-Webinar

Save the date for the 2nd annual International Invasive Species & Climate Change Conference (IISCCC): December 9 & 10, 2025, 10am–2pm PT / 11am–3pm MT! More info: risccnetwork.org/iisccc-2025

🗞️ Hot off the press! New NW CASC-supported publication in BioScience ➡️ 🌲🔥📍 Spatial climate analogs in climate change research, impact assessment, and decision-making doi.org/10.1093/bios...