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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

💧🚰 Do you specialize in research at the intersection of water management and climate resilience? The UW Climate Impacts Group @cig-uw.bsky.social is HIRING a mid-career research scientist who has experience working on applied water resources projects. Apply by 9/27! cig.uw.edu/2026/09/were...

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We’re hiring a research scientist specializing in water management – apply by 9/27 | Climate Impacts Group

The UW Climate Impacts Group has an outstanding opportunity for a mid-career research scientist who specializes in water management systems to join our team and play a critical role in advancing clima...

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

👋 Considered applying for the NW CASC's 2027 Faculty Fellowship Program but ran out of time? ⌛ We have good news for you! ✨ We've extended the deadline to August 31! 🔗 bit.ly/3OIjL1q

Announcement banner with photo of young scientist conducting research on snowpack in Washington. Text reads, "Deadline extended to August 31! 2027 Facutly Fellowship Program. "I have better context and background now for charting a path toward doing work that is meaningful for myslef and others." -NW CASC Faculty Fellow Alumni

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

⏳ One week left to apply for the NW CASC 2027 Faculty Fellowship Program! Faculty in the NW CASC Consortium (BSU, NWIC, OSU, PSU, UM, UW, WSU, WWU) are eligible to apply. Deadline 7/15. Learn more!👇

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The UW Climate Impacts Group (@cig-uw.bsky.social) is ✨hiring ✨ an early career scientist with a social science or policy background + project management experience. Apply by 7/2 🔗 bit.ly/3QZS5WZ

Two researchers from the UW Climate Impacts Group conduct research on transpiration in trees at Friday Harbor Laboratories on San Juan Island, Washington. Credit: University of Washington.

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The International Invasive Species & Climate Change Conference (IISCC) — Dec 1-2, 2026 — is accepting talk abstracts until 6/29! Talks must relate to marine ecosystems, food security, disease, extreme events, and management lessons. Learn more ➡️ www.risccnetwork.org/iisccc-2026

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

💡 Reminder! We're hosting an info session for those interested in the 2027 Faculty Fellowship Program — TOMORROW, May 5 @ 11 a.m. PT 🔗 bit.ly/3RkJzBy Not sure if you're eligible? Faculty & non-faculty scientists with primary investigator status at UW, BSU, NWIC, OSU, PSU, UM, WSU & WWU can apply!

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Claire Willing, UW asst. professor of environmental and forest sciences & current NW CASC Faculty Fellow, was just named a 2026 @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Early Career Fellow! Claire's research focuses on how microbes respond, and help plants cope with, environmental change. 🍄🌲🔥👉 bit.ly/4tirqCA

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UW’s Claire Willing named fellow of Ecological Society of America

The Ecological Society of America named the UW’s Claire Willing a 2026 Early Career Fellow. Willing, an assistant professor of environmental and forest science, studies fungal ecology, looking at...

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for our 2027 Faculty Fellowship Program, supporting NW CASC Consortium faculty to take research beyond peer-reviewed 📰 to formats more easily applied to decision-making of NW resource managers! Info session on May 5 @ 11am PT. DL to apply is July 15, 2026 👉 bit.ly/3OIjL1q

Announcement banner reads: "Now Accepting Applications! 2027 Faculty Fellowship Program. Info Session: May 5 at 11am PT. Deadline to apply: July 15, 2026." Next to text, a researcher measures an area along the forest floor while setting up equipment to gauge snow depth throughout the winter.

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

⏳ 🗓️ Applications for NW CASC's 2026-27 Research Fellowship Program are due Monday, March 9! Reach out if you have any questions 📧 nwcasc@uw.edu

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🌿 Happy World Seagrass Day (3/1)! 🌿 At NW CASC, we're proud to support Research Fellow Maria Garcia's work with partners @ WA DNR & Ecology to understand how native and non-native eelgrass (a type of seagrass) are supporting fish & crustaceans in Willapa Bay as the climate changes bit.ly/46BxE7z

Eelgrass on beach at low tide with three circular photos overlaid on top. From left: two researchers drag seine net through shallow water as part of eelgrass research study, researcher in wetsuit smiles, hand holding pipefish found in eelgrass bed.

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The NW CASC Research Fellowship Program is still accepting applications through Mar 9! If you have questions about the program or application process, register for our info session TOMORROW — Thurs, Feb 12 @ 10am PT to learn more! 🔗 bit.ly/3LDrpZn

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

🔥 🌲 ⛰️ ❄️ 🦫 🌊 🦀 🐝 It's that time of year again! Grad students & postdocs doing #ClimateChange research @ BSU, OSU, PSU, UM, UW, WSU and WWU — You can now APPLY for NW CASC's 2026-27 Research Fellowship Program, supporting research+training in actionable sci! Deadline Mar 9 bit.ly/45RnoHC 1/4

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Claire Willing @clairewilling.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Super excited to have been named a NW CASC Faculty Fellow! We will be working with partners in eastern WA to study the role of post-fire fungi in forest recovery!🍄🌲🔥 Thanks to @nwcasc.bsky.social for this awesome support and training opportunity!

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Drumroll, please! 🥁....Meet our new Research & Faculty Fellows! From examining how fungi can help forests recover from wildfire 🍄🌲🔥, to understanding whether lakes can provide summer refuge for climate-sensitive bull trout, 🌊🌡️🐟, they are advancing climate adaptation across the NW! bit.ly/3LtYqa7

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

If you haven't registered, it's not too late! This Wednesday (11/5) at 2 pm PT! 🔗 bit.ly/4oro4KM

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

✨ Join us for an upcoming webinar with @allisonagsten.bsky.social to learn how to effectively share your stories with the public as an engaged scientist! 🎤 Sharing Your Science with the Media to Highlight its Value to the Public 🗓️ Wed 11/5 @ 2 pm PT 🔗 Register bit.ly/4oro4KM

A University of Washington researcher kneels in the mud with research equipment and explains something to a group. They are studying eelgrass in Padilla Bay, Washington.

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Join us in welcoming Grace Molino @gdmolino.bsky.social, our new Climate Adaptation Postdoctoral Fellow! Grace will collaborate with management partners to examine coastal squeeze of priority ecosystems and species in response to sea level rise in the PNW ▶️ bit.ly/48uwrR4

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Susan Cosier @susancosier.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

USGS scientists tell us about the effects of invasive species & climate change. Yet their fate, like many other federal employees who work in science & the environment, is unknown. My latest for @nrdc.org. Thank you to @meadekrosby.bsky.social, John Organ, Ed Arnett, and others for speaking with me.

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The Attacks on Science Continue—This Time at the USGS

From sea level rise to bee populations, the agency’s wildlife and climate programs shed light on the world around us.

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Given concerns about continued availability of federal climate info, @cig-uw.bsky.social is hosting a webinar reviewing resources for supporting climate preparedness in WA & the NW, feat. @meadekrosby.bsky.social & Guillaume Mauger 👇 📊 Climate Resources Roundup 🗓️ 10/16 @ 1 pm PT 🔗 bit.ly/46R5uED

Three researchers collect data in the Padilla Bay estuary at low tide. Credit: University of Washington.

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

A new USGS-led synthesis, supported by NW CASC, uses cutting-edge science to help the Bureau of Land Management understand how shifting precipitation patterns & rising temps are affecting big sagebrush ecosystems, helping support decisions to related to conserving big sagebrush 🔗 bit.ly/4mPkh9x

A National Park Service staff member measures the height of a big sagebrush plant in the City of Rocks National Preserve, Idaho.

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

No lunch plans today? We got you covered! Grab an (iced) ☕, a snack, and join us for an 11 a.m. PT webinar about ☀️ managing the ecological impacts of extreme heat in the NW ☀️ Register here >> bit.ly/41orkgY Thank you @cig-uw.bsky.social for hosting!!

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

👀 Check it out! Products from our 2025 Deep Dive, Managing the Ecological Impacts of Extreme Heat in the NW, are now available 👉 bit.ly/25DeepDive Members from our Deep Dive team will present a webinar TOMORROW (8/27) @11am PT as part of @cig-uw.bsky.social's new series! Register 👉 bit.ly/41orkgY

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

A new NW CASC-supported study found four threatened PNW amphibians, despite similar ecology, face very different climate futures — challenging the use of an “indicator species” approach for habitat specialists & guiding wildlife managers toward climate-smart conservation 🔗 Read more bit.ly/4mEs89v

Top left: An adult Van Dyke’s salamander (Plethodon vandykei) found under a rock near a stream in the Willapa Hills, WA. Top right: A small larval Dicamptodon salamander, identified as Cope’s giant salamander (Dicamptodon copei) based on location in the Olympic Peninsula. Lower left: An adult Coeur d’Alene salamander (Plethodon idahoensis) found sheltering in an exploratory mineshaft near a seep in Northern ID. Lower right: A vibrant adult Rocky Mountain tailed frog (Ascaphus montanus), found navigating a mossy incline in Northern ID. Source: Sky Button

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

👀 A new NW CASC-supported study led by former Research Fellow Eileen Bates, along with researchers from UW, Puget Sound Restoration Fund & WA Dept of Fish & Wildlife explores how climate warming and ocean acidification are threatening hatchery-raised abalone in the early life stages 🔗 bit.ly/4503Voq

Underwater photo of a pinto abalone — herbivorous marine snails with a red/purple shell and a strong, muscular “foot” that is used to move as well as to grip tightly onto hard surfaces.

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

A new webinar series on the RAD (Resist-Accept-Direct) Framework — a tool helping resource managers make informed choices for responding to change — kicks off next week! 🔎 RAD Perspectives 🗓️ Thurs 7/24 @ 12pm PT ➡️ Register bit.ly/4kEA6hu Series hosted by the National CASC/Learn more bit.ly/4lnYUvs

Photo of six researchers walking through Padilla Bay estuary with equipment. Text describes event, including presenter list: Gregor Schuurman (National Park Service), Aaron Shultz (Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission), Nicole Ward (Minnesota Department of Natural Resources), Nifer Wilkening (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Want to prevent a mid-week 🐪 slump? Register for a 🌟 stellar 🌟 panel on Driving Climate Action with Evidence-Based Solutions this Wed 7/16 @ 2pm PT, including @nwcasc.bsky.social's very own @meadekrosby.bsky.social 👉 lu.ma/7agmepme Check out more 🌲 PNW Climate Week events 👉 pnwclimateweek.org/

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Climate Impacts Group @cig-uw.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

"There's a lot of evidence that shows that the stronger a community's social cohesion is, the better chances they have of resilience from climate hazards," said Rishi Sugla, climate resilient scientist at the UW Climate Impacts Group. @uofwa.bsky.social @nwcasc.bsky.social

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Northwest RISCC Network @nwriscc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Join us for some fishy summer fun at our next webinar, "Something Warm in the Water: Temperature, Pathogen, and Invasive Species Impacts on Freshwater Fishes" on Tues., July 15, 11am PT, featuring speakers Jonny Armstrong and Ian Tattam! Register at: bit.ly/NW-RISCC-July-Webinar

An underwater photo of a rainbow trout surrounded by blue water (image by Jason Ching) serve as the background for white text that says "Something Warm in the Water: Temperature, Pathogen, and Invasive Species Impacts on Freshwater Fishes, Zoom webinar, Tuesday, July 15, 2025, 11 AM–noon (Pacific)." Circular image insets show portraits of the two speakers alongside talk and speaker information, as follows: "Beer and Gasoline Don't Mix—Do Bass and Steelhead? Ian Tattam, Eastern Section Science Program Manager for Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife" and "Exploring how water temperature and pathogens shape the distribution of native and non-native trout in the Upper Klamath Basin, Jonny Armstrong, Associate Professor, Oregon State University." Also included, in white, are the logos for the Northwest RISCC Management Network & Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Cente.

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Northwest RISCC Network @nwriscc.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Save the date for the 2nd annual International Invasive Species & Climate Change Conference (IISCCC): December 9 & 10, 2025, 10am–2pm PT / 11am–3pm MT! More info: risccnetwork.org/iisccc-2025

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

🗞️ Hot off the press! New NW CASC-supported publication in BioScience ➡️ 🌲🔥📍 Spatial climate analogs in climate change research, impact assessment, and decision-making doi.org/10.1093/bios...

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Are you faculty or a non-faculty scientist with primary investigator within the NW CASC Consortium? If the answer's yes, grab your 🍎🥪☕ at 11am PT and join us for an info session about applying for our Faculty Fellowship Program! It's not too late to register 👉 bit.ly/2026FacultyFellowship

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Welcome to Bluesky, NW Regional Invasive Species & Climate Change (NW RISCC) Network! The NW RISCC is a program of the NW Climate Adaptation Science Center. Please give a follow 👇

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

We are now accepting applications for our 2026 Faculty Fellowship Program — supporting NW CASC Consortium faculty to take research beyond peer-reviewed 📄s to formats more easily accessed, interpreted and applied by resource managers! Learn more bit.ly/2026FacultyFellowship & check out this thread ⬇️

Designed banner reading "Now Accepting Applications! 2026 Faculty Fellowship Program. A one-year, last-mile program to support NW CASC Consortium faculty in making research more easily applied to natural resource decision making! Learn more + register for May 13 info session @ 11am PT. bit.ly/2026FacultyFellowship." Bright blue, lime green, and medium green text boxes surround a photo of six researchers walking through a field with flowers in the foreground and trees in the background.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The NW Climate Adaptation Science Center has delivered hundreds of projects informing resource management in a changing climate. Our training programs provide the pipeline of climate-ready natural resource workers the NW desperately needs. Proposed cuts to USGS would eliminate the CASC program.

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Trump swings budget ax at USGS biology research

Plan to eliminate $307 million ecosystem program could face obstacles in Congress

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I talked to the Seattle Times about how loss of our region's Climate Adaptation Science Center and NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership would slash our capacity to support NW climate resilience. “If the (centers) are eliminated, then our resource managers are going to be flying blind,” Krosby said."

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UW climate research group braces for Trump cuts

The University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group relies heavily on federal funding to help communities adapt to climate change.

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

🐸 🦠 New, open-access 📄 sharing NW CASC-supported research on the vulnerability of at-risk amphibians to disease & invasives under climate change ⬇️ Amphibians reveal unexpectedly large differences in potential climate change responses among ecologically similar habitat specialists > bit.ly/4cHg43E

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

🌊 🌿 New, open-access 📄, associated with co-author Robin Fales's 2021 NW CASC-supported project — Kelp in the Salish Sea: Understanding Temperature and Nutrient Stressors to Inform Conservation. Check it out! 👀 ⬇️

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

An update from the UW Climate Impacts Group on what proposed cuts to NOAA and USGS would mean for our work supporting climate resilience in the Northwest. At stake: both the NW Climate Adaptation Science Center and the NW Climate Resilience Collaborative (a NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership).

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CIG Update: Federal Funding Uncertainty & Potential Program Impacts | Climate Impacts Group

Dear supporters of the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group, We appreciate the role each of you has played in our collective efforts to help make communities, Washington state, and the Pacif...

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🌊 ✨ 👀 Check out our exciting new story! Surprises in the Klamath: How disease, invasives, and warming waters are affecting redband trout ➡️ lnkd.in/g7Z4vpJH 📝 written by guest author Heidi Shepard, NW CASC communications graduate research assistant

Photo collage with six photos. Top row, from left - underwater photo of large redband trout; researcher holding a brown trout; researcher checking a radio telemetry station in Klamath lake, where the research team monitored fish leaving and entering. Bottom row, from left - two researchers with snorkels and equipment collecting samples in the water; redband trout captured in clear container; researcher standing in water deploying dissolved oxygen loggers in the Sprague River, the longest tributary of the Upper Klamath Basin.

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

@UW undergrads: Ready to make an impact? 🌍 The EarthLab Summer Internship Program is a 9-week paid internship tackling climate + social justice challenges thru hands-on projects, mentorship + peer learning. @nwcasc.bsky.social is a partnering organization! 📅 Apply by 2/6! 👉 bit.ly/ELIntern25

Photo of previous cohort of EarthLab summer interns, made up of 17 students. Banner on photo reads "2025 EarthLab Summer Internship Program: Apply your passion & skills towards finding equitable environmental solutions."

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Grad students & postdocs doing #ClimateChange research @ BSU, OSU, PSU, UM, UW, WSU and WWU — You can now APPLY for NW CASC's 2025-26 Research Fellowship Program - supporting climate adaptation research + training in actionable science! Proposals due 3/10 bit.ly/2025-nwcasc-rfp 1/5

NW CASC Research Fellow alum Sydney Jantsch stands in the South Fork of the Nooksack River with two colleagues from the Lummi Natural Resources Department as they install groundwater wells to measure the temperature of the hyporheic zone beneath the riverbed.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

🚨Job alert🚨 Please share! 2-year postdoc to inform management of coastal squeeze in the Pacific NW. Based at UW, Seattle, this position will join a national cohort developing actionable science on species range shifts as part of the USGS Climate Adaptation Postdoctoral (CAP) Fellows Program. 🧪🌎

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Why hello there Bluesky! We've been swimming around getting to know this place and it's about time we say hi! We're excited to connect with those working to advance climate adaptation in and beyond the NW - stay tuned for science, resources & opportunities from our center and the CASC network!

A dark grey harbor seal pokes it head out of a body of water.

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