News

General

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 CPR News, "Colorado Wildfires Are Climate Change ‘In The Here And Now’ — And A Sign Of Summers To Come".


Scientists

AP News: Science Says: Climate change, people stoke California fires


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


Webinar

NC CASC Webinar Series: People, Nature, and Future Climate: Developing prioritized climate adaptation actions through a stakeholder driven process in southwest Colorado


The next NC CASC webinar series is titled, "People, Nature, and Future Climate: Developing prioritized climate adaptation actions through a stakeholder driven process in southwest Colorado."


Publications

Executive Summary Released for Mountain Goat Project


NC CASC’s Imtiaz Rangwala worked with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks on a Structured Design Making Process to develop recommendations for the future management of mountain goats in the state.


Event

NC CASC Hosts Tribal Climate Leaders Program Welcome Event


On August 11, the NC CASC held a virtual event to welcome the Tribal Climate Leaders to CU. This event was designed to allow the four incoming and one returning graduate students to introduce themselves to each other and to the wider NC CASC community, and for us to introduce the students to some of the additional programs and resources on campus to support their scholarly, professional, and personal growth.


Publications

New Publications from NC CASC Projects


Several papers were recently published from NC CASC projects.


Announcement

LERI Tool Featured in "Dry Times"


Landscape Evaporative Response Index (LERI), a tool used to remotely-sense high-resolution information of the evaporative response from the land in near real time, is featured in the August 13th edition of Dry Times, a bi-monthly newsletter from NIDIS.


General

NC CASC Hires New Research Assistant, Brecken Robb


The NC CASC is proud to welcome a new research assistant, Brecken Robb. She will serve as a resource for the National Park Service's Climate Change Response Program in the development of climate-resource scenarios.


Event

Three Centers Summer 2020 Virtual Meeting & Retreat


On July 22-23, NC CASC team members joined colleagues from NOAA, DOI and USDA to participate in the virtual, semi-annual Three Centers Retreat. The objective of the this event is to bring together staff from regional climate efforts that are headquartered in the Front Range and are working on climate issues in the Northern Rockies and northern Great Plains.


Job Opportunities

NC CASC Seeks Postdoc for Grasslands Project


The NC CASC is seeking a postdoc for the new Grasslands Project.