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CASC news announcements highlight news from across the CASC network, including new research, upcoming webinars, job postings, and events at the National and regional CASCS. The CASCs also produce original feature stories profiling project success stories, high-interest data products, and CASC scientists.

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Keeping Pace: A Short Guide to Navigating Sea-Level Rise Models

Keeping Pace: A Short Guide to Navigating Sea-Level Rise Models

A new short guide covers the importance of sea-level rise model selection, helpful concepts, model categories, and an example of how to utilize these...

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Up to 70 Percent of Northeast U.S. Coast May Adapt to Rising Seas

Up to 70 Percent of Northeast U.S. Coast May Adapt to Rising Seas

Much of the coast from Maine to Virginia is more likely to change than to simply drown in response to rising seas during the next 70 years or so...

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AK CSC Poster, “From Icefield to Ocean,” Receives Shoemaker Award for External Communications

AK CSC Poster, “From Icefield to Ocean,” Receives Shoemaker Award for External Communications

Three researchers and communicators affiliated with the Alaska Climate Science Center were winners of the 2015 Eugene M. Shoemaker Communication...

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What Climate Change Means for North America’s Most Widespread Tree

What Climate Change Means for North America’s Most Widespread Tree

Aspen groves serve as important ecological hotspots in the Rocky Mountains. Scientists affiliated with the Northwest Climate Science Center are...

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Native Hawaiian Silverswords Threatened by Shifting Climate Patterns

Native Hawaiian Silverswords Threatened by Shifting Climate Patterns

A new study published in Climate Change Responses by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers shows how shifting atmospheric circulation patterns...

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Food for Billions: Inland Fisheries and World Food Security

Food for Billions: Inland Fisheries and World Food Security

Reston, VA – Inland capture fisheries are much more crucial to global food security than realized, according to the first global review of the value...

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Supporting Transportation Research and Operations with Weather Hazard Datasets

Supporting Transportation Research and Operations with Weather Hazard Datasets

Extreme weather conditions produce substantial strain on transportation systems. Scientists are developing weather hazard datasets, based on climate...

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Evolutionary Clock Ticks for Snowshoe Hares Facing Climate Change

Evolutionary Clock Ticks for Snowshoe Hares Facing Climate Change

New research from NCCWSC-funded scientists at North Carolina State University and the University of Montana shows that the evolutionary clock is...

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New Report Describes the Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI)

New Report Describes the Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI)

EDDI is a drought index that can serve as an indicator of both rapidly evolving “flash” droughts (developing over a few weeks) and sustained droughts...

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Climate Past as Prologue for Ponderosa Pines

Climate Past as Prologue for Ponderosa Pines

Scientists from the National Park Service and the U.S. Geological Survey have reconstructed the recent migration history of ponderosa pine trees in...

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New Vegetation Models Serve as "Story-telling Tools" to Help Protect Habitat for Spotted Owls and Sage Grouse

New Vegetation Models Serve as "Story-telling Tools" to Help Protect Habitat for Spotted Owls and Sage Grouse

Researchers are working to incorporate information from global climate models, process-based models, specific vegetation models and human activities...

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Massachusetts Launches Wildlife Climate Action Tool to Help Conservation Managers, Landowners Respond to Climate Change

Massachusetts Launches Wildlife Climate Action Tool to Help Conservation Managers, Landowners Respond to Climate Change

A coalition of research institutions and fish and wildlife agencies this week unveiled a new online tool for use by local decision-makers...

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