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Delivering science to help fish, wildlife, water, land and people adapt to a changing climate
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Welcome to NW CASC Connections!
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NW CASC Connections is designed to help keep you -- a member of the community working to advance climate adaptation in and beyond the Northwest -- in the loop by connecting you to the latest NW CASC science, tools, opportunities and events from across our region.
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Ecological Drought in the Northwest
As the climate changes in the Northwest, increasing temperatures and changing precipitation patterns are expected to significantly alter our annual snowpack, stream flows and water availability. Along with these changes comes an increased risk of ecological drought, or periods of water stress that impact species, habitats, ecosystems and the services they provide. More frequent and severe ecological droughts have the potential to push ecosystems beyond their ability to recover, resulting in complete changes in ecosystem composition and function.
To help resource managers plan for increasing ecological drought under climate change, NW CASC researchers synthesized and evaluated the scientific body of research on climate adaptation actions that address ecological drought in priority ecosystems of the Northwest, identifying benefits and limitations of specific management approaches.
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- The National CASC's Science to Action Fellowship supports graduate students in applying scientific research related to climate change impacts on fish, wildlife and ecosystems to decision-making about natural resources. Statements of Interest are due January 31, 2020.
- Oregon Sea Grant is pleased to announce several upcoming paid fellowship opportunities in marine science and policy for undergraduate and graduate students as well as recent graduates. Washington Sea Grant is also accepting applications for several upcoming fellowship opportunities.
- The 8th Annual Rising Voices Workshop, focused on Climate Resilience through Intergenerational and Place-Based Knowledges, will be held April 29 - May 1, 2020. Applications are due December 18, 2019.
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Faces of Adaptation: Meet NW CASC's Tribal Liaison
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Chas Jones serves as the NW CASC Tribal Resilience Liaison through the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI). In this role, Chas works to build relationships with Northwest tribes and tribal staff and understand their climate-related concerns. By understanding specific concerns of a tribe or tribal department, he is able to connect tribes with opportunities for funding or partnerships that can support tribes in building capacity and addressing specific climate impacts.
Learn More About Chas
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Actionable Science Resources
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Engaging scientists and decision-makers in the co-production of knowledge is considered a best practice for generating science that is likely to be useful and used in addressing pressing environmental challenges. A How-to Guide for Coproduction of Actionable Science (Beier et al. 2016) provides recommended practices for helping researchers, resource managers and other stakeholders co-produce actionable science.
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Where does the cutthroat trout get its name? Take a look under its mouth and you’ll see red “cut” markings on either side of its throat! Westslope cutthroat trout are a freshwater fish that depend on coldwater habitats and are native to Idaho, the upper Columbia River, northern tributaries of the Snake River and some watersheds east of the Continental Divide. They are a species of concern throughout their range, which has substantially decreased due to impacts from climate change, competition with nonnative species and habitat degradation and fragmentation. NW CASC-funded research focuses on how factors such as warming stream temperatures, hybridization with nonnative species and genetic isolation threaten the westslope cutthroat trout, enabling managers to prioritize populations for conservation actions in a changing climate.
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