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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center
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Federal-consortium partnership teaming scientists with natural & cultural resource managers to deliver science that helps fish, wildlife, water, land & people in the NW adapt to climate change. Home of @nwriscc.bsky.social. Hosted by @cig-uw.bsky.social.
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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
Preview of "Meet our Fellows" flyer
November 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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✨ 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
A University of Washington researcher kneels in the mud with research equipment and explains something to a group. They are studying eelgrass in Padilla Bay, Washington.
October 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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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
October 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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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
Three researchers collect data in the Padilla Bay estuary at low tide. Credit: University of Washington.
October 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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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
A National Park Service staff member measures the height of a big sagebrush plant in the City of Rocks National Preserve, Idaho.
August 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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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!!
The sun sets over a road with mountains in the distance.
August 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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👀 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
August 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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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
Top left: An adult Van Dyke’s salamander (Plethodon vandykei) found under a rock near a stream in the Willapa Hills, WA. Top right: A small larval Dicamptodon salamander, identified as Cope’s giant salamander (Dicamptodon copei) based on location in the Olympic Peninsula. Lower left: An adult Coeur d’Alene salamander (Plethodon idahoensis) found sheltering in an exploratory mineshaft near a seep in Northern ID. Lower right: A vibrant adult Rocky Mountain tailed frog (Ascaphus montanus), found navigating a mossy incline in Northern ID. Source: Sky Button
August 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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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
Underwater photo of a pinto abalone — herbivorous marine snails with a red/purple shell and a strong, muscular “foot” that is used to move as well as to grip tightly onto hard surfaces.
August 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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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
Photo of six researchers walking through Padilla Bay estuary with equipment. Text describes event, including presenter list: Gregor Schuurman (National Park Service), Aaron Shultz (Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission), Nicole Ward (Minnesota Department of Natural Resources), Nifer Wilkening (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
July 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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We are now accepting applications for our 2026 Faculty Fellowship Program — supporting NW CASC Consortium faculty to take research beyond peer-reviewed 📄s to formats more easily accessed, interpreted and applied by resource managers! Learn more bit.ly/2026FacultyFellowship & check out this thread ⬇️
Designed banner reading "Now Accepting Applications! 2026 Faculty Fellowship Program. A one-year, last-mile program to support NW CASC Consortium faculty in making research more easily applied to natural resource decision making! Learn more + register for May 13 info session @ 11am PT. bit.ly/2026FacultyFellowship." Bright blue, lime green, and medium green text boxes surround a photo of six researchers walking through a field with flowers in the foreground and trees in the background.
April 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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🌊 ✨ 👀 Check out our exciting new story! Surprises in the Klamath: How disease, invasives, and warming waters are affecting redband trout ➡️ lnkd.in/g7Z4vpJH

📝 written by guest author Heidi Shepard, NW CASC communications graduate research assistant
Photo collage with six photos. Top row, from left - underwater photo of large redband trout; researcher holding a brown trout; researcher checking a radio telemetry station in Klamath lake, where the research team monitored fish leaving and entering. Bottom row, from left - two researchers with snorkels and equipment collecting samples in the water; redband trout captured in clear container; researcher standing in water deploying dissolved oxygen loggers in the Sprague River, the longest tributary of the Upper Klamath Basin.
April 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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@UW undergrads: Ready to make an impact? 🌍 The EarthLab Summer Internship Program is a 9-week paid internship tackling climate + social justice challenges thru hands-on projects, mentorship + peer learning. @nwcasc.bsky.social is a partnering organization!
📅 Apply by 2/6!
👉 bit.ly/ELIntern25
Photo of previous cohort of EarthLab summer interns, made up of 17 students. Banner on photo reads "2025 EarthLab Summer Internship Program: Apply your passion & skills towards finding equitable environmental solutions."
January 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Grad students & postdocs doing #ClimateChange research @ BSU, OSU, PSU, UM, UW, WSU and WWU — You can now APPLY for NW CASC's 2025-26 Research Fellowship Program - supporting climate adaptation research + training in actionable science! Proposals due 3/10 bit.ly/2025-nwcasc-rfp

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NW CASC Research Fellow alum Sydney Jantsch stands in the South Fork of the Nooksack River with two colleagues from the Lummi Natural Resources Department as they install groundwater wells to measure the temperature of the hyporheic zone beneath the riverbed.
January 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Why hello there Bluesky! We've been swimming around getting to know this place and it's about time we say hi! We're excited to connect with those working to advance climate adaptation in and beyond the NW - stay tuned for science, resources & opportunities from our center and the CASC network!
A dark grey harbor seal pokes it head out of a body of water.
December 19, 2024 at 10:00 PM