Deep Dive: CASC Science in Action
Deep Dive: Invasive Species in a Changing American Landscape
Explore how CASC science is helping partners detect, monitor, and manage invasive species to strengthen the resilience of infrastructure, wildfire response, forests, fisheries, rangelands, and national security.
Explore how CASC science is helping partners detect, monitor, and manage invasive species to strengthen the resilience of infrastructure, wildfire response, forests, fisheries, rangelands, and national security.
Deep Dive: Enhancing Economic and National Security for Alaska and the Nation
Science from the Alaska CASC is supporting natural resource management, energy development, and national security.
Science from the Alaska CASC is supporting natural resource management, energy development, and national security.
Deep Dive: Building Resilience to Natural Hazards
Explore how CASC science improves our understanding of natural hazards and supports decisions that reduce risks to people, infrastructure, and ecosystems.
Explore how CASC science improves our understanding of natural hazards and supports decisions that reduce risks to people, infrastructure, and ecosystems.
Deep Dive: Supporting the Outdoor Recreation Economy
The CASCs support federal, state, and Tribal managers as they work to protect our natural heritage.
The CASCs support federal, state, and Tribal managers as they work to protect our natural heritage.
Dropping the Bass: USGS science helps stop the spread of invasive smallmouth bass
Webinar Series: Incorporating the Resist-Accept-Direct Framework into Management Planning
Spotlights Series
Learn about CASC success stories, actionable data products, and our talented scientists.
Learn about CASC success stories, actionable data products, and our talented scientists.
Climate Adaptation Science Centers
The USGS National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASCs) partner with natural resource managers across the country to deliver adaptation science that supports natural resource stewardship in a changing world.
The CASCs
The CASCs
Our network is comprised of the National CASC and nine regional CASCs, covering the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawai'i, the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands, and the U.S. Caribbean.
Our Science
Our Science
The CASCs fund projects generating research, data sets, and tools to help natural resource managers protect natural places and local communities in a changing climate.
Deep Dives
Deep Dives
Explore examples of how CASC science is informing on-the-ground climate adaptation and strategic management.
News
2025 CASC Annual Summary
2025 CASC Annual Summary
Study Outlines a Range of Possible Fire Futures for Alaska
Study Outlines a Range of Possible Fire Futures for Alaska
Low-Flow, High Stakes: CAP Fellows Review Climate-Driven Flows and Management Across the U.S.
Low-Flow, High Stakes: CAP Fellows Review Climate-Driven Flows and Management Across the U.S.
Publications
Cognitive and institutional barriers to effective natural resource management under global change Cognitive and institutional barriers to effective natural resource management under global change
Many of the most challenging decisions facing natural resource managers today can be understood as time dependent. The concept of time-dependent decisions is useful when considering natural resource management decisions that are characterized by nonstationarity in the underlying ecological system, uncertainty surrounding key ecological relationships, efficacy of management interventions...
BioShifts v2 and BioShiftR: Tools for navigating and analysing species range shift data BioShifts v2 and BioShiftR: Tools for navigating and analysing species range shift data
Species are redistributing their ranges globally in response to climate change, but the fragmented and complex nature of the documented responses make them challenging to track and analyze. Synthesis of species’ range shifts requires careful integration and consideration of varying methods and scales of study. Here, we present an updated database that combines two previous data...