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Save the Date!
The Great Plains Tribal Water Alliance will be having their annual conference from November 5 - 6, 2025 at the Lodge at Deadwood, South Dakota. Registration and agenda will follow soon.
Building Knowledge and Capacity Together
The North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (NC CASC) Consortium met in Boulder, Colorado, August 13-15, 2025, for a three-day workshop that blended reflection, capacity-building, and future planning.
Ulyana Horodyskyj Peña
Webinar CANCELLED: Thursday, September 11, 2025
This webinar will be rescheduled for a future time.
NC CASC 2025 Consortium Meeting
The NC CASC team and partners recently gathered in Boulder, CO for a three-day meeting to reflect on the first year of our renewed Cooperative Agreement with USGS and strategically plan our activities in Year 2.
Advancing Climate Resilience with the Tribal Adaptation Menu
Janna Black, North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center Tribal Liaison, attended the Tribal Adaptation Menu (TAM) Train-the-Trainer Workshop in Minneapolis, MN, on July 22–24.
Janna Black
Building Ethical Space
The Traditional Ecological Knowledge Workshop was a two-part virtual training designed to equip participants with the foundational knowledge and practical skills necessary for engaging with Indigenous Peoples, Nations, and communities in collaborative natural resource research and decision-making.
Ulyana Horodyskyj Peña
Ecological Acclimation
Ecosystems respond to climate change at radically different speeds, from immediate physiological shifts to centuries-long evolutionary changes, thus making it difficult to predict how they’ll evolve over time. A new study introduces “ecological acclimation” as a unifying framework to integrate fast and slow biological responses across species and systems.
Ulyana Horodyskyj Peña
Ecological Scenarios for Climate-Smart Management in the American West
Rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and intensifying wildfires are altering the ecological dynamics of forests, grasslands, and rangelands. How do you prepare for a future that’s not only novel but also one that cannot be accurately predicted?
Ulyana Horodyskyj Peña
May/June 2025 Newsletter - Now Out
The next NC CASC newsletter is now out. Explore stories on ecological scenarios for climate-smart management, fighting fire with fire, and wildly unpredictable warm-season rains.
New Publication on Climate Change Adaptation in National Parks
A new study quantifies both the magnitude of projected mid-century climate change and the associated uncertainty within 332 national park units in the continental United States.
Ulyana Horodyskyj Peña