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The Tribal Climate Leaders Program
The Tribal Climate Leaders Program provides science education & research opportunities for Indigenous students while supporting the integration of their new knowledge & experience with their tribes and on their reservations.
Welcome to Seamus Land!
Seamus Land is the participatory science fellow with the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center. His work with USGS and the NC CASC will focus on developing shared concepts, language, and practices to support participatory and actionable science efforts across the agency.
NC CASC Team Attends CIRES Rendezvous
Members of the NC CASC team attended the annual CIRES Rendezvous yesterday. It was a great chance to meet up in person and showcase some of our work during the afternoon poster session!
Final Webinar Recording - Now Available
Our last webinar of the academic year is now available on our YouTube channel, covering the modeling of invasive species considering climate to inform management activities. Thanks for joining us - we'll see you back in September!
Cross-Park RAD Project
In late April, Heather Yocum (NC CASC) and Julia Goolsby (CIRES) traveled to Montana to hold conversations about the climate-driven loss of whitebark pine with resource managers from Glacier National Park and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
NC CASC team attending CIRES Rendezvous
CIRES Rendezvous is an “institute-wide symposium that aims to bring awareness to the depth, breadth, and quality of the pacesetting science being done at CIRES.” The NC CASC will be displaying three posters at the 2024 event to highlight our work in science and communications.
March/April 2024 Newsletter Now Available!
Our next newsletter (March/April 2024) is now out! Learn more about Traditional Ecological Knowledge; register for our next webinar (this Thursday, May 9, at 11 AM), and learn more about a new toolkit to assist federal resource managers in co-producing actionable science to support public land management.
Congratulations to Prasad Thota!
Congratulations to Prasad Thota, recipient of one of the CIRES' 2024 Graduate Student Research Awards! He is a Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering at CU Boulder advised by Prof. Balaji Rajagopalan. Last summer, he worked on an RCAP project alongside NC CASC's climate lead, Dr. Imtiaz Rangwala.
James Rattling Leaf, Sr. selected as author in First National Nature Assessment
James Rattling Leaf, Sr. (NC CASC Tribal Engagement Specialist/ CIRES Tribal Advisor) was recently announced as an author on the “Opportunities for America’s Nature” chapter in the First National Nature Assessment.
New Actionable Science Toolkit
A new toolkit aims to assist federal resource managers in co-producing actionable science to support public land management, which supports knowledge and tools that are accessible, convenient, and relevant to agency work.