Meet NC CASC Intern, Noah Williams
Noah Williams recently joined the NC CASC as an intern to work with the NC CASC's Tribal Resilience Liaison, Stefan Tangen. Noah received a Bachelor of Arts in Communication, with an emphasis in Environmental Communication, at California State University Channel Islands, in 2019. He will be assisting NC CASC’s Tribal Resilience liaison with on-going natural resource management projects, site-visits and a tribal newsletter for 31 Federally recognized tribes in the North Central region.
North Central CASC Receives Funding from the Community for Data Integration (CDI) for New “Climate Scenarios Toolbox”
Joint Stakeholder Committee Meeting
Tribal nations are priority science partners of the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (NC CASC).
Tribal Nations are unique and distinct partners for the NC CASC since their connection to the environment is often thousands of years old. The NC CASC is committed to working with Tribal partners to create usable, useful, and relevant science to build resilience to anthropogenic climate change. Resources of the NC CASC include:
NC CASC Education Lead Leah Wasser Receives Open Educator Award
Leah Wasser is the recipient of the 2019 CU Boulder Open Educator Award from the CU Student Government and the University Libraries. The award recognizes her openly-licensed Earth Analytics Python course that uses open source tools to educate students on Earth data science. An average of 50,000 unique global visitors access the course materials each month.
NC CASC Announces 2018 Projects
The U.S. Geological Survey is pleased to announce the following fiscal year 2018 projects funded via the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center:
Mapping the Risk of Ecological Transformation Across Pinyon Woodlands and the U.S. West
PIs: John Bradford (USGS Southwest Biological Science Center), Shelley Crausbay (Conservation Science Partners, Inc.)
NC CASC University Director Jennifer Balch to be featured in PBS Nova episode, "Inside the Megafire"
NC CASC University Director Jennifer Balch will be featured in the Nova special, "Inside the Megafire", airing on PBS on May 8. "Drones are bringing a revolution to science, giving us a way to look at the forest that we’ve never had before", says Balch. "We can understand an individual tree using drones, and thousands and thousands of individual trees. Drones give us the ability to reconstruct an entire forest, one tree at a time.
National Adaptation Forum Honors North Central CASC USGS Director Robin O'Malley
New Product Showcases Implications of Climate Scenarios for Badlands National Park Resource Management
One of the biggest challenges facing resource managers today is not knowing exactly when, where, and how climate change effects will unfold. While scientific models can be used to predict the types of impacts that climate change might have on a landscape, uncertainty remains surrounding factors such as how quickly changes will occur and how specific resources will respond. To plan for this uncertain future, managers have begun to use a tool known as scenario planning.
NC CASC members to present at National Adaptation Forum
Several members of the NC CASC will present at the National Adaptation Forum in Madison, WI, April 23-25:
Tuesday, April 23:
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