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NC CASC welcomes new Research Coordinator, Alisa Wade

The NC CASC welcomes Dr. Alisa Wade to our team as our new research coordinator. Alisa is a conservation planner and scientist, trained at the intersection of physical, ecological, and social science, with a particular interest in bridging the gap between science and management by creating tools and resources for conservation planning.

NC CASC University Director Jennifer Balch comments on "the Smokey Bear effect"

NC CASC Director Jennifer Balch comments on "the Smokey Bear effect" as Smokey celebrates 75th birthday.

NC CASC University Director Jennifer Balch speaks at U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Committee on the Climate Crisis

Congressional hearing on campus highlights CU Boulder climate change leadership.

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.

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 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.

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