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) collaborate with natural resource managers and other partners to develop information and tools that can be directly applied to adaptation decisions. Our network is comprised of nine regional CASCs and one National CASC, with each regional CASC being a partnership between the USGS and a consortium of institutions.
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 develop information, data, and tools to help resource managers address climate adaptation needs for fish, wildlife, ecosystems, and communities.
Deep Dives
Deep Dives
Explore examples of how CASC science is informing on-the-ground climate adaptation and strategic management.
News
EcoNews - Vol. 7 | Issue 3
EcoNews - Vol. 7 | Issue 3
Podcast Explores the Links Between Storms and Invasive Species in the Pacific Region
Podcast Explores the Links Between Storms and Invasive Species in the Pacific Region
USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center at the 2026 Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America Meeting
USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center at the 2026 Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America Meeting
Publications
How Indigenous socio-cultural systems resist, accept, or direct ecological transformation: A research agenda How Indigenous socio-cultural systems resist, accept, or direct ecological transformation: A research agenda
Anthropogenic ecological transformations are challenging conventional environmental management paradigms, as maintaining historical ecological structures and functions becomes increasingly untenable. The resist–accept–direct (RAD) framework offers a strategic tool to navigate these shifts. However, as a product of the dominant socio-cultural system, the RAD framework risks perpetuating...
Range-wide population trend analysis for greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus)—Updated 1960–2025 Range-wide population trend analysis for greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus)—Updated 1960–2025
Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter sage-grouse) are at the center of State and national land-use policies largely because of their unique life-history traits as an ecological indicator for the health of sagebrush ecosystems. This updated population analysis provides State and Federal land and wildlife managers with the best available science to help guide...
Characterizing metabolic responses of Eleutherodactylus frogs in Puerto Rico to different thermal treatments: Implications for conservation Characterizing metabolic responses of Eleutherodactylus frogs in Puerto Rico to different thermal treatments: Implications for conservation
Amphibians are increasingly vulnerable to extinction due to physiological stress induced by projected global warming and associated drying trends. Understanding the underlying mechanisms and consequences of these responses is crucial to developing effective conservation strategies. Puerto Rico hosts 15 endemic Eleutherodactylus frog species, which are particularly vulnerable to...