The Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux) tribe recognizes the climate crisis we are facing, and is planning to adapt and thrive.

Check out the January/February issue of our newsletter. We strive to update you on NC CASC science, opportunities and events across our region. 

Learn about new job and funding opportunities this spring in the new Tribal Climate Resilience newsletter. 

Learn more about the Tribal Grid Resilience Formula funding opportunity; the Karuk Tribe's first-of-its-kind training for controlled burns; and more about the Bison Restoration for the American Prairie

The NC CASC is excited to welcome a new program assistant, Hailey Robe, to our staff.

Check out the November/December issue of our newsletter. We strive to update you on NC CASC science, opportunities and events across our region. 

Learn more about growing interest in Tribal National Parks; how a wildlife crossing was successfully built with Tribal knowledge; and new opportunities like the 2023 Tribal Climate Camp in the January 2023

Learn more about investments in Tribal climate resilience, putting Indigenous knowledge into practice for climate change, and the upcoming Native youth climate adaptation leadership Congress in this month's Tribal

The August 2022 issue of the NC CASC Tribal Climate Newsletter is now available online: Highlights include:

Anthony Ciocco is a USGS Climate Adaptation Scientist who initially joined the NC CASC program in July of 2020 as a BIA Pathways Program Intern.

NC CASC Research Ecologist Brian Miller and former NC CASC colleague Brecken Robb are co-authors on a new publication, Conservation under uncertainty: Innovations in participatory climate change scenario planning from U.S.

NC CASC/USGS Research Ecologist is a co-author on a new paper, "Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts o

The NC CASC is excited to welcome Kynser Wahwahsuck, the new Tribal Climate Resilience Liaison for the Great Plains Tribal Water Alliance.

The May/June 2022 issue of the NC CASC newsletter is now available online:

The July 2022 issue of the NC CASC Tribal Climate Newsletter is now available online:

Interannual variation in climate contributes to contingency in post-fire restoration outcomes in seeded sagebrush steppe from this project:

Ella Ho is an undergraduate in the Astronomy and Planetary Sciences department with minors in Space and Atmospheric and Oceanic Science.

A prolonged drought in the western U.S. has left Colorado River reservoirs seriously depleted.

The Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change (RISCC) Management network (risccnetwork.org) aims to reduce the compounding effects of invasive species and climate change by synthesizing rele

The NC RISCC is excited to announce the launch of their new website containing published materials, videos, and other information about the NC RISCC.

On June 8, NC CASC Climate Science Lead Imtiaz Rangwala presented and discussed "

The June 2022 issue of the NC CASC Tribal Climate Newsletter is now available for viewing online.

In this recently published essay in The Conversation, NC CASC Climate Science Lead Imtiaz Rangwala explores the theory of a 

The March/April 2022 issue of the NC CASC Newsletter is now available online:

NC CASC consortium partners, Phil Higuera, University of Montana, and

The NC CASC May 2022 Tribal Climate Newsletter is now available online:

The Great Plains Tribal Water Alliance is hiring for a full-time Tribal Climate Resilience Liaison.

The NC CASC Climate Science Support Platform has developed a new R-Shiny app to quantify daily snowfall and rainfall quantities from total daily precipitation data in both observations (gridMET) and future projections (MACAv2-METDATA).

North American grasslands are a regional priority of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).

NC CASC consortium partner, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), has co-authored a study on climate adaptation, "Strengthening monitoring

The North Central Regional Invasive Species & Climate Change Network, NC RISCC, has shared its first Management Challenge,

NC CASC/USGS Research Ecologist Brian Miller, Gregor Schuurman, NPS Climate Change Response Program and Amy Symstad, USGS will co-present "Scenario Planning as a Climate Change Adaptation Tool" as part of the National Park Service (NPS) 

NC CASC Research Associate Christy Miller-Hesed is co-author on a recent publication, 

Recent NC CASC Publications: 

Please join us for our next NC CASC Webinar Series webinar: Identifying Potential Landscapes for Conservation Across the Central Grasslands of North America: Integrating Keystone Species, Land Use, and Climate Change

The North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (NC CASC) seeks 3 graduate student mentors to provide peer mentoring to 3 summer undergraduate research fellows.

The NC CASC April 2022 Newsletter is now available to read online.

NC CASC ecologist Brian Miller, with co-authors Brecken Robb

A new publication by NC CASC team members and others examines beaver mimicry as a conservation technique to restore streams and manage water that is gaining popularity within the natural resource management community because of a wide va

The Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP) Tribes and Climate Change Program is delighted to announce that the

The NPS Climate Change Response program and NC CASC are partnering to deliver a presentation "Participatory Climate Change Scenario Planning: A standard approach, application guidelines, and management outcomes from a decade of research

Please join us for the next NC CASC webinar on Thursday, April 14, 2022, 11a -12p MDT:

Tools for developing reproducible climate futures for resource planning

The January/February 2022 issue of the NC CASC newsletter is now available online. In this edition we

NC CASC Consortium Partner Wildlife Conservation Society's Climate Adaptation Fund has released its request for proposals for the 2022 grant cycle.

NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and the

The March 2022 Issue of the NC CASC Tribal Climate Newsletter is now available online.

Join the NC CASC as we celebrate Earth Week 2022 by hosting Climate Solutions Days, an à la carte offering of presentations, workshops and trainings scheduled throughout the week where scientists and practitioners will

NC CASC PI James Rattling Leaf will present "Developing Tribal Strategies to Deal with a Changing Climate" at the Second Lakota Fo

NC CASC PI James Rattling Leaf has published a new paper in ESA's Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment titled "What

NC CASC/USGS Research Ecologist Brian Miller is the primary author of a new publication, "Conservation under uncertainty: Innovations in participat

NC CASC consortium partner, Phil Higuera, University of Montana, is co-author on a new paper, "Developing strategies to support social-ecological

On February 24th, Brian Miller, NC CASC Research Ecologist, will be giving an invited presentation to the

NC CASC/USGS Research Ecologist, Brian Miller, is co-author on a new publication in Environmental Modelling and Software,

The NC CASC February 2022 Tribal Climate newsletter is now available online.

NC CASC's James Rattling Leaf, Sr.

Please join us for the NC CASC Webinar Series Webinar on Thursday, February 10, 2022, 11a -12p MST: "Developing Climate Information for US Fish and Wildlife Service Species Status Assessments Using the Climate Toolbox" 

NC CASC Stakeholder Engagement Lead, Heather Yocum, has co-authored a new publication in Conservation Science and Practice titled 

NC CASC PI James Rattling Leaf was recently interviewed by Directions Magazine for their Geoinspirations Podcast Series: James Rattling Leaf - Responsibility, Reciprocity, Relevance, and Relationality. 

Seth Arens at the Western Water Assessment has published a summary of what we know about the causes of the Marshall Fire, now available on WWA's

The January 2022 issue of the NC CASC Tribal Climate Newsletter is now available online.

Join Western Water Assessment for our webinar on the Snowtography: Snowpack & Soil Moisture Monitoring Handbook , Friday, January 21, 2022 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (MST)

Several papers have recently been published from projects sponsored by the NC CASC:

NOAA, on behalf of the U.S.

Our November/December 2021 newsletter is now available online.

NC CASC partner, Shelley Crausbay, CSP, along with CSP colleagues and members of the SW CASC have published a new paper, "

NC CASC wildfire scientists, Jennifer Balch, University of Colorado Boulder, and Phil Higuera, University of Montana, have been fielding numerous media requests for interviews regarding the Marshall Fire in Boulder County last month.

December urban wildfire. Three words thought unimaginable to exist in the same sentence. That was the case until Thursday, December 30, 2021.

Read the NC CASC December 2021 Tribal Climate Newsletter, now available online.

A new paper published in Climate, "Uncertainty, Complexity and Constraints: How Do We Robustly Assess Biological Responses under a Rapidly Changing Climate?"

This story has has been updated to include links to the video recording and 

Join us on Thursday, December 2nd at 1 PM MT for a Tribal Climate Webinar. The session will provide updates on drought in the Northern Great Plains and an outlook on what to expect for the winter and spring seasons.

On October 18 – 21, 2021, participants from the Ute Mountain Ute, Southern Ute and Ute Tribe of Utah came together in a virtual setting to attend the Tri Ute Climate Adaptation Workshop, the first in a series of four climate adaptation w

The work of NC CASC PI and CSP senior scientist Shelley Crausbay and colleagues is currently featured in a special issue of the high-impact journal BioScience. The publications also feature Amanda Cravens and Katie Clifford, two

NC CASC Research Associate Christy Miller Hesed has published a new paper in the American Meteorological Society Journals,

The Geo for Good Summit is an annual conference geared toward nonprofits, scientists, government agencies and other change-makers who want

Read about the R-shiny apps developed by NC CASC's Dr.

Summer 2021 was a year of extreme weather events in the Intermountain West. Drought conditions that were building since 2019 covered vast areas of the region with extreme and exceptional drought.

Our partners at the NW CASC are hosting a webinar, "Tribal Experiences in Collaborative Fire Management in the Northwest".

The ESA Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section will be hosting a webinar series to facilitate a virtual space to welcome and hear from Indigenous voices who work to help sustain and nurture TEK within their communities.

A new study in Environmental Science & Policy, "Flexible and comprehensive criteria for evaluating climate change adaptation success for biod

NCCASC Consortium Partner Dr. Molly Cross, Wildlife Conservation Society, was quoted in a German news outlet covering COP26:

The September/October 2021 issue of the NC CASC newsletter, along with previous editions, is

Read the Spotlight Section on our website to find more about the addition of the Northern Great Plains Region

NC CASC Tribal Resilience Liaison, Stefan Tangen and USGS Research Ecologist, Brian Miller provided presentations and facilitated sessions at a workshop from October 18-21, 2021 on Tribal Climate Adaptation Planning.

Our November Tribal Climate Newsletter is now available online: https://mailchi.mp/6d66e32c5023/tribal-clim

Are you a resource manager or scientist interested in learning how to work with climate data in Python?

The BIA Tribal Climate Resilience Program is pleased to announce the availability of funding to support the hiring of Tribal Climate Resilience Liaisons in the North Central, Midwest and Northeast/Southeast regions of the DOI Climate Ada

A new paper by Brian Miller, USGS and NC CASC Research Ecologist, is now available online in the Landscape Ecology journal.

James Rattling Leaf will be speaking at an upcoming talk as part of the Alliances for Climate Action: Virtual Forum Series, sponsored by the Resilient Nation Partnership Network, on October 20th from 12-2pm ET.

NC CASC and USGS Research Ecologist, Brian Miller, will be spe

Read a summary of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Climate Change Summit held in September in the Spotlight Section on our

NC CASC Consortium Partner Dr.

Read the October 2021 edition of the NC CASC Tribal Climate Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/639cab6ed39e/tribal-climate-newsletter-january-48

Read the latest NC CASC publications:

A new paper, "Resilience of native amphibian communities following catastrophic drought: Evidence from a decade of regional-scale monitoring," was recently

Wynne is an ecologist and conservation biologist interested in how wild populations respond to environmental stressors, including land use transformation, climate change, and infectious disease.

Dr. Ty Tuff is our friendly neighborhood data scientist. He is based in Earth Lab’s Analytics Hub where he helps members and affiliates of the lab process, analyze, and publish their hard-won data.

Please register for Stewarding transforming landscapes using the Resist-Accept-Direct framework & transformation-oriented natural & cultural science on Oct 6, 2021, 1:00 PM MDT at:

The fourth in a series of Tribal Drought Webinars, hosted by N

The Midwest CASC is the ninth and final member to the CASC network.

USGS and NC CASC Research Ecologist, Brian Miller, will partic

NC CASC’s consultant to the Great Plains Tribal Water Alliance

A new NC CASC-funded project, led by PI Amanda Kissel, is now

This post was updated on October 6th, 2021 with the correct link to the paper.

NC CASC’s consultant to the Great Plains Tribal Water Alliance, James Rattling Leaf, helped the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe organize and host a two-day C

Join the National CASC for an upcoming webinar, “Setting Habit

NC CASC’s Climate Science Lead, Imtiaz Rangwala, and his partn

On Friday, September 17th, the Department of the Interior (DOI) signed off on a major tribal water rights compact with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Montana.

September 15, 2021

U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit launches new section for the Northern Great Plains Region

NC CASC’s consultant to the Great Plains Tribal Water Alliance

A recent news announcement by the National CASC highlighted a publication funded by the NC CASC, "A typology of drought decision making: Synthesizing across cases to understand drought preparedness and response actions."

The NC CASC welcomes our new Communications Specialist, Ulyana Horodyskyj. Ulyana is a geologist/glaciologist/climate change expert with exten

Read the September edition of the NC CASC Tribal Climate Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/b28a0130a004/tribal-climate-newsletter-january-48006

NC CASC USGS Deputy Director, Aparna Bamzai-Dodson, is scheduled to give an upcoming seminar at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) on September 20th at 12:00pm MT.

Read the latest NC CASC publications below:

James Rattling Leaf is scheduled to speak at the 2021 Resilient Nation Partnership Network (RNPN) Annual Forum: Alliances for Climate Action.

A new project, “Estimating future high-mountain snowpack to in

NC CASC's James Rattling Leaf will be speaking at USGS' National Imagery Summit: Landsat and Society, which will be held from August 31st to September 2nd.

The NC CASC and USDA Northern Plains Climate Hub will hold a series of topic-based listening sessions with the Joint Stakeholder Committee (JSC) and their team members.

NC CASC’s Adaptation Co-lead, Lisa Dilling, was quoted in an A

A new article by USGS Research Ecologist and NC CASC partner, Brian Miller, is now available online:

James Rattling Leaf will moderate a workshop at the FOSS4G (Free and Open Source for Geospace) 2021 Annual International Gathering, "Building Relational &a

The Joint Fire Science Program has posted Open Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs). Read more:

 https://www.firescience.gov/JFSP_funding_announcements.cfm

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) is soliciting proposals to conserve and restore grasslands and wildlife species in the Northern Great Plains.

Elsa Culler has joined the NC CASC as an Education Trainer.

NC CASC PI, Laura Edwards at South Dakota State University, wa

Join us for the next Ecological Society of America (ESA) webinar, "Integrating Western Science Into Indigenous Knowledge Processes" on August 20th at 12:00pm EST.

The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) released its first Indig

Join us for the next Tribal Climate Webinar on July 27th at 10:00am MT.

Read the July 2021 edition of the Tribal Climate Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/9d30426339d7/tribal-climate-newsletter-january-4782522?e=675

NC CASC Climate Science Lead, Imtiaz Rangwala, and his work fo

NC CASC University Director, Jennifer Balch, and Consortium Pa

NC CASC University Director, Jennifer Balch, wrote an op-ed that was featured in The Hill before the 4th of July.

A new project under PI Chelsea Nagy will focus on integrating the research and management of invasive species, climate change, and fire.

Below is a list of recent publications that were supported by the NC CASC:

The North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (NC CASC) invites applications for a part-time Communications Specialist.

NC CASC University Director, Jennifer Balch, was quoted in a recent AP article on recent cautions in the West on firework use before July 4th celebrations amid a historic drought. 

A new article from the Wildlife Conservation Society (@WCSAdapts), a North Central CASC Consortium Partner, and co-authored by PI Molly Cross, introduces a rapid assessment framework to make nature conservation more resilient to climate

Join the Ecological Society of America (ESA) for their upcoming webinar on July 23rd at 12:00pm EST, "Guidelines for the Use of Traditional Knowledges." NAU's Anne Marie Chischilly will discuss Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and

The NC CASC and USDA Northern Plains Climate Hub will hold a series of topic-based listening sessions with the Joint Stakeholder Committee (JSC) and their team members.

Please j

Imtiaz Rangwala, the NC CASC’s Climate Science Lead, was quote

Join the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP) for the virtual course, "Introduction to Climate Change Adaptation Planning (Western Region)," from August 9th-13th.

NC CASC Consortium Partner and PI Phil Higuera, at the Univers

A new USGS tool, the "Land Treatment Exploration Tool" was just released as a part of a NC CAS

Read the June 2021 edition of the Tribal Climate Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/40629d05a9d5/tribal-climate-newsletter-january-4767070?e=675

Three new projects, all with USGS PI's, are now up and running at the NC CASC. Information about each project can be viewed below.

A paper co-authored by the NC CASC’s Climate Science Lead, Imt

Watch the latest tribal webinar, "Tribal Drought Conditions and Actions in the North Central," which discusses the updates and projections on drought conditions in the Missouri River Basin focused on Tribal lands.

A new paper was published that discusses the lessons learned from the Campfire Conversations at the 2020 Annual Meeting for the Society for Range Management.

The NC CASC's Tribal Climate Leaders Program (TCLP) was featured in the 2021 Edition of CIRES annual magazine, "Spheres." The feature included quotes from James Rattling Leaf, Sr., an NC CASC partner, and William Crawford, a stu

Three new papers, all funded by the NC CASC, are published and available online. Read them below:

Join the North Central Climate Collaborative (NC3) for their upcoming virtual conference, Advanced Climate Change Topics: North Central Climate 201 from June 8th-10th.

We hope the shift into spring is bringing each of you so much wellness.

Read the May 2021 Edition of the Tribal Climate Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/3167e950ac00/tribal-climate-newsletter-january-4753510?e=6758

A new paper was recently published in the Journal of Weather, Climate, and Society, "

The Getches-Wilkinson Center at CU Law is hosting the webinar, "Land, Water, and People: The Natural Resource Priorities of the Biden Administration," on May 13th from 5:00-6:15pm MDT as part of their webinar series, "The Climate Justice

The NC CASC is proud to announce our four new summer graduate research assistants, who will be helping NC CASC researchers with summer projects. 

James Rattling Leaf, Sr., will participate in the panel, “Plan

James Rattling Leaf, Sr., will participate in the panel, “Coll

NC CASC Consortium Partner, Laura Edwards, will present in the South Dakota State University (SDSU) Extension Drought Hour on May 24th. She will give a climate update for South Dakota based on data from the U.S. Drought Monitor.

On April 19^th, NC CASC Consortium Partner, Laura Edwards, was featured in the Sout

Please join us for the NC CASC webinar on Thursday, May 13, 2021, 11a -12p MDT:

The NW CASC organizes an annual Ecological Transformation Deep Dive to identify emerging clim

On Wed March 17, the leadership teams of the North Central CASC, NOAA's Western Water Assessment, and USDA Northern Plains Climate Hub met virtually for their bi-annual retreat.

USGS Research Ecologist Brian Miller will give a conference presentation on new software developments that facilitate modeling interactions between wildlife and their environment.

This post was updated on May 4th, 2021.

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM MDT

NC-CASC Consortium Partner Wildlife Conservation Society has released a call for proposals for the Climate Adaptation Fund , which supports the imple

Read the April edition of the Tribal Climate Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/a47f67e57d06/tribal-climate-newsletter-january-4740466?e=6758500

On April 21^st, James Rattling Leaf Sr., will give a presentation titled, “Engaging

A paper funded by the NC CASC was recently published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management titled, "The impact of production network economies on spatially-contiguous conservation—Theoretical model with evidence from t

On March 31^st, Stefan Tangen and Dr. Valerie A.

NC CASC Consortium Partner, Molly Cross, testified on a March 23^rd, 2021 hearing o

USGS released a new multi-agency report on sagebrush, "Sagebrush Conservation Strategy—Challenges to Sagebrush Conservation".

NC CASC Climate Science Lead, Imtiaz Rangwala, is co-author of a new paper published in Nature, “Seasonal to multi-year soil moisture drought forecasting”.

USGS Deputy Director, Aparna Bamzai-Dodson, was featured on one of USGS’ Instagram accounts,

The presentation recording from our latest webinar, "Our Changing Fire Regimes" on March 11th was posted to YouTube.

NC CASC Webinar Series: Demographic uncertainty and disease risk drive climate-informed mountain goat management 

On March 4^th, PI Phil Higuera at the University of Montana, gave a talk for the As

The NC CASC is looking to hire three Graduate Research Assistants for summer 2021:

Climate Data, Tools and Science Support Summer 2021 Graduate Research Assistant

NC CASC PI Molly Cross at the Wildlife Conservation Society finished her fiscal year 2018 pro

NC CASC Research Scientist, Kimberley Davis at the University of Montana, is listed as a co-author on a recent publication, "Challenges to the Reforestation Pipeline in the United States," which was published in the Frontiers in Forests

Presented by: Jennifer Balch, NC CASC University Director, University of Colorado-Boulder 

Thursday, March 11, 2021, 11a-12p MST

The March 2021 edition of the Tribal Climate Newsletter has been released.

NC CASC' Molly Cross is a co-author on a recently published paper, "R-R-T (resistance-resilience-transformation) typology reveals differential conservation approaches across ecosystems and time" in the Nature Journal.

North Central CASC Consortium Partner, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), has published a new analysis of the ways that conservation practitioners in the U.S. are embracing climate change in their work.

James Rattling Leaf, Sr. was recently featured in the podcast, "Connecting Tribal Lands with NASA Remote Sensing Tools", hosted by the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute. The podcast can be heard on the following stations:

We are very pleased to announce that USGS’ first Wildland Fire Science Strategic Plan (Strategic Plan) has been published and is now available.

Please join us on, Thursday, March 11 at 3:00 pm ET for the NCASC webinar:

James Rattling Leaf, Sr., was featured in the February 22nd episode of Warm Regards, "Indigenous Climate Knowledge and Data Sovereignty," where he discussed traditional ecological knowledges and the Indigenous relationship with climate a

James Rattling Leaf, Sr., will be speaking at the Posner Center event, "Climate Justice and Indigenous Rights" on February 25th from 11am-12:30pm.

A CU professor, two regents, and alumni testified before the Colorado Senate Education Committee for a bill that would grant in-state tuition to members of American Indian nations with historical ties to Colorado. 

NC CASC consortium partners, Phil Higuera and Kim Davis, University of Montana, held a workshop, "Managing Post-fire Vegetation Under Climate Change" on February 3-4, 2021 for land managers in the North Central region.

The Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP) Climate Change Program is hosting an informational webinar on Tuesday, March 2, featuring the

A climate change workshop and other collaborative activities between Molly Cr

A recording of our latest webinar, "Drought, Wildfire, and Climate Change: From Scenarios to Real Life through the Eyes of a Scientist-Land Manager," and presented by Koren R.

The Climate Futures Toolbox (CFT) was featured in the latest USGS Project Spo

Read the February 2021 edition of the Tribal Climate Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/a59bf13f5abc/tribal-climate-newsletter-january-4261129?e

NC CASC Postdoc Christy Miller Hesed and her colleagues - Michael Paolisso, Elizabeth Van Dolah, and Katherine Johnson - are receiving two a

Anthony Ciocco, NC CASC’s BIA Pathways Program Intern, presented the webinar,

James Rattling Leaf, Sr. will be presenting in two upcoming webinars.

A new paper, "Human activities and weather drive contact rates of wintering elk" was rece

A new paper, "Climate resilient management in response to flash droughts in the US Northern Great Plains", funded by the NC CASC, has been published in the journal Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability by PI Dennis S O

Presented by: Koren R. Nydick, Chief of Resource Stewardship at Rocky Mountain National Park 

Thursday, February 11, 2021, 11a -12p MST

Two new papers funded by the NC CASC were recently published. 

NC CASC PI Shelley Crausbay will work directly with the Ute Mountain Ute deci

A new report titled Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD)—A Framework for the 21st-centu

The November/December 2020 issue of the NC CASC newsletter is available online:

An article, "How to include Indigenous researchers and their knowledge" was published by Nature on January 12th. Read the article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00022-1

A four-part Ecological Drought National Webinar Series, hosted by NIDIS, USGS

James Rattling Leaf, Sr. will be a panelist in the American Meteorological Su

The January 2021 edition of the Tribal Climate Newsletter was released.

Congratulations to James Rattling Leaf, Robin O’Malley and Chad McNutt who have been awarded seed funding from Rising Voices for their project "Enabling Tribal Data Sovereignty: Supporting Great Plains and Northern Rockies Tribes Data Ne

Revised

On December 8^th, NC CASC

The December 2020 edition of the Tribal Climate Newsletter is released.

During a press briefing for AGU 2020, Kelsey Satalino from CIRES/NIDIS highlighted the National Integrated Drought Information System's (NIDIS) Drought Portal (

The 2020 Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change is an international research collaboration that monitors and reports annually on the relationship between health and climate, and its implications for national gov

Earth Lab and the USGS are hiring a CU Boulder undergraduate Data Science & Remote Sensing Intern.

Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is holding the GEO Indigenous Summit 2020 virtually from December 7-9th. James Rattling Leaf Sr.

The USGS Land Change, Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) initiative is offering two Mendenhall Fellowships to improve its land change products.

James Rattling Leaf Sr.

Imtiaz Rangwala Featured in KRDO

On Friday, October 15^th, James Rattling Leaf Sr.

(Washington, D.C., November 12, 2020) – Twenty-first century agriculture involves cutting-edge science, technology, business management – and you. Today, the U.S.

NIDIS Releases Tribal Drought Engagement Strategy for the Missouri River Basin and Midwest Drought Early Warning Systems (DEWS)

The Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) has released its Tribal Review of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis' Congressional Action Plan, co-authored by NC CASC Tribal Liaison, Stefan Tangen. 

At its regular meeting on Thursday, Nov.

NC CASC PI James Rattling Leaf, Sr. will present "Every Tribe has a Climate Story: Climate Assessment Planning on Tribal Lands in the Great Plains" on November 19 at NTGISC's 11th Annual National Tribal GIS Conference (virtual). 

Dr. Jilmarie Stephens is a bio-micro-meteorologist studying plant-atmosphere interactions in a changing climate, from surface layer turbulence to ecosystem scale climate, carbon, and water fluxes.

NC CASC PI James Rattling, Sr. has been elected Chair of ESA's Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) Section.

A new study supported by the Southwest, Northwest, and North Central CASCs found that a few days of water scarcity during critical growth periods dramatically limited post-fire sagebrush regeneration across the Great Basin.

The NC CASC hosted a fully remote Climate Data 101 in Python workshop for resource managers and climate scientists on Friday, October 30th, 2020. There was overwhelming interest in the workshop with 115 RSVPs for 45 spots.

On Friday, November 6^th, James Rattling Leaf Sr., participated in

PI: Davis (UM) : Science to Inform Post-fire Conifer Regeneration and Reforestation Strategies Under Changing Climate Condit

Celebrate Native American Heritage month with James Rattling Leaf, Sr , Rosebud Sioux Tribe, University of Colorado-Boulder and Robert Newman, University of North Dakota from ESA’s Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section as we explore:

NC CASC PI James Rattling Leaf, Sr. was featured in a Space.com article: "With pandemic thwarting workshops, NASA training for tribes goes digital".

“Building Relational and Effective Partnerships with Indigenous Communities” with James Rattling Leaf, Sr.

Tue, November 17, 2020

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM MST

NC CASC partner, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is working with the American Bison Society to celebrate National Bison Day on November 7th, an annual commemoration of the ecological, cultural, historical, and economic contribution o

Christy Miller Hesed is an environmental anthropologist and conservation biologist whose work focuses on engaging diverse stakeholders in climate change adaptation planning.

Initiative by Board of Regents results in history-minded reflection: https://connections.cu.edu/stories

A new paper has been published in the journal, Ecosphere, called "Linking surface and subterranean climate: implications for the study of hibernating bats and other cave dwellers." The lead author is Meredith McClure, the lead s

Two new projects went live in late-October,

Thursday

Consortium Partner, Phil Higuera at the University of Montana, co-authored a recent publication discussing climate change and the record-setting 2020 fire season, "Record‐setting climate enabled the extraordinary 2020 fire season in the

A new paper has been published, "Small scale water deficits after wildfires create long-lasting ecological impacts." This paper was funded by the NC CASC. 

On October 28-29th, USGS NC CASC employees Brian Miller, Brecken Robb, and Danika Mosher, along with staff from the NPS Climate Change Response Program, NPS Biological Resources Division, and Scenario Insight, LLC, are co-facilitating a

A new paper co-authored by NC CASC's Imtiaz Rangwala was published today, "Projections of Mountain Snowpack Loss for Wolverine Denning Elevations in the Rocky Mountains."

Imtiaz Rangwala and Shelley Crausbay wrote a short article, "Ecological Drought Enters Unfamiliar Territory," for the National Integrated Drought Information System's (NIDIS) ecodrought publication. 

Registration for this event has reached capacity.

SDSU One of Four Schools Chosen to Lead the Upper Missouri River Snowpack Monitoring System, Awarded $12.8 Million Contract

On September 15th, Imtiaz Rangwala gave a virtual guest lecture to a graduate class at the University of Wyoming, “Understanding and Quantifying Impacts of Regional Climate Change." Watch it here: 

Closing the Gap Between Climate Change Ecology Research and Resource Management

James Rattling Leaf, Sr. will be on a panel of speakers at an upcoming Environmental Law Institute webinar, "Swept Away: Safeguarding Tribal Cultural Heritage from the Impacts of Climate Change".

Consortium Partner, Phil Higuera, and Research Ecologist, Kim Davis, at the University of Montana are authors on a recently published paper that discusses findings of fire-catalyzed vegetation shifts in ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir for

The Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA) released their Quarterly Newsletter, which features updates on the Data Science Leadership Summit, the ADSA Annual Meeting, and event reminders. 

A new paper, "A new framework to map fine resolution cropping intensity across the globe: Algorithm, validation, and implication," was recently published. The paper and project were funded by the NC CASC. 

Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day!

Right Relationship Boulder is co-sponsoring an exciting series of online events to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day from October 9th-12th. 

Western Water Assessment webinar: Colorado River Basin Climate and Hydrology, Part 3: Current Understanding of Processes, Patterns, and Variability

Determining Successful Management and Restoration Strategies for Pinyon-Juniper Communities in the Face of Changing Climate and Wildfire

Project Summary:

NC CASC consortium partners Phil Higuera and Kim Davis from th

sponsored by The Boulder Labs Diversity Council:

Several members of the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (NC CASC) participated in last week’s 2020 National Tribal and Indigenous Climate Conference.

Sarah Burton is a USGS Data Steward serving the North Central CASC as well as the South Central and Pacific Island CASCs.

Collaborative Commitment among South Dakota State University, Bison Organizations

NC CASC consortium partner, Shelley Crausbay (CSP) and Climate Science Lead,

A film, "Holding Back the Snowpack ," explores the suite of tools stakeholders in the Big Hole Valley are using to improve riparian habitat along the Big Hole River. (

This article has been updated to include events posted after September 17, 2020.

From September 21-25, Brian Miller, NC CASC/USGS Research Ecologist, along with Danika Mosher and Brecken Robb from the NPS Climate Change Response Program and Denver Service Center, are co-facilitating a remote workshop on climate chang

New publication on project funded by the NC CASC: M. Doidge, D. A. Hennessy, and H.

The Climate Futures Toolbox (CFT) R package which provides easy and robust access to MACA climate data has reached version 0.3.0: https://gith

Greetings from the High Plains Regional Climate Center!

Recent publications by NC CASC principal investigators focus on flash drought, fires (not funded by the NC CASC):

NC CASC consortium partners Shelley Crausbay, Conservation Science Partners, and Molly Cross, Wildlife Conservation Society, have been awar

This paper was part of the project "Characterizing Historic Streamflow to Support Drought Planning in the Upper Missouri River Basin:  Paleohydrologic Resources for Drought Planning and Improved Operations in the Upper Missouri River Bas

The NC CASC is proud to welcome a new research assistant, Danika Mosher.

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, host of the Northwest CASC Tribal Liaison, announces Youth Video Contest focused on climate change and the environment:

NC CASC University Director Jennifer Balch talks wildfires and climate change on KUNC's Colorado Edition: Feeling the Heat

NC CASC team members partnered with Earth Lab and CIRES partners to compile a list of resources on current fires and air quality: https://cir

NC CASC University Director Jennifer Balch quoted in CPR News, "Colorado Wildfires Are Climate Change ‘In The Here And Now’ — And A Sign Of Summers To Come".

NC CASC University Director Jennifer Balch quoted in AP News article about climate change, California wildfires.

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