CASC Climate Adaptation Technical Services
CASC Climate Adaptation Technical Services (CATS) is a new, multi-year pilot effort to respond to management needs on climate adaptation. The program provides partners with tailored climate adaptation science, advice, and training to help them rapidly incorporate climate adaptation science into planning and decision making.
Overview
The CATS team seeks to learn, through iterative engagement with resource management partners, how the CASC network can improve partners' ability to access, use, and interpret available climate adaptation science. We envision this pilot as a natural complement to the regional and national CASC research programs that focus on developing and delivering new climate adaptation science.
These technical climate services should enable Department of the Interior bureaus and partners to:
- more rapidly incorporate climate adaptation science into their plans, practices, and decisions,
- increase staff understanding of climate adaptation science,
- increase staff skills in using climate adaptation science, and
- grow trusted relationships with the CASC program.
What will this initiative provide?
- Scientific advice to connect expert partners to existing data, tools, and science resources. This advice would include iterative engagement with partners to understand management challenges, assess data and tool needs, provide informal training to help partners use and interpret existing tools and data resources.
- Timely scientific analysis and synthesis of available data and literature on relevant climate sensitivities, exposure, and risks.
- Data and tool development to broadly support climate adaptation for natural and cultural resource managers.
Upcoming recruitment
Come work for USGS Climate Adaptation Science Centers! We are hiring a team of scientists with interdisciplinary interests and expertise in climatology, hydrology, ecology, scientific translation and communication, and partner engagement. These scientists will work as a national team and with regional CASCs to provide advice, analysis, and scientific synthesis to support climate adaptation for Interior agencies and their partners. These positions are not designed to focus on research - they will work as a team to provide scientific support to natural resource management partners who request assistance with climate adaptation science.
Upcoming Recruitments: Our initial recruitment opportunity closed in June 2024. A second round of recruitment is planned for fall 2024 to hire an additional 5-7 positions.
Point of contact: Ryan Boyles <rboyles@usgs.gov>
CASC Climate Adaptation Technical Services (CATS) is a new, multi-year pilot effort to respond to management needs on climate adaptation. The program provides partners with tailored climate adaptation science, advice, and training to help them rapidly incorporate climate adaptation science into planning and decision making.
Overview
The CATS team seeks to learn, through iterative engagement with resource management partners, how the CASC network can improve partners' ability to access, use, and interpret available climate adaptation science. We envision this pilot as a natural complement to the regional and national CASC research programs that focus on developing and delivering new climate adaptation science.
These technical climate services should enable Department of the Interior bureaus and partners to:
- more rapidly incorporate climate adaptation science into their plans, practices, and decisions,
- increase staff understanding of climate adaptation science,
- increase staff skills in using climate adaptation science, and
- grow trusted relationships with the CASC program.
What will this initiative provide?
- Scientific advice to connect expert partners to existing data, tools, and science resources. This advice would include iterative engagement with partners to understand management challenges, assess data and tool needs, provide informal training to help partners use and interpret existing tools and data resources.
- Timely scientific analysis and synthesis of available data and literature on relevant climate sensitivities, exposure, and risks.
- Data and tool development to broadly support climate adaptation for natural and cultural resource managers.
Upcoming recruitment
Come work for USGS Climate Adaptation Science Centers! We are hiring a team of scientists with interdisciplinary interests and expertise in climatology, hydrology, ecology, scientific translation and communication, and partner engagement. These scientists will work as a national team and with regional CASCs to provide advice, analysis, and scientific synthesis to support climate adaptation for Interior agencies and their partners. These positions are not designed to focus on research - they will work as a team to provide scientific support to natural resource management partners who request assistance with climate adaptation science.
Upcoming Recruitments: Our initial recruitment opportunity closed in June 2024. A second round of recruitment is planned for fall 2024 to hire an additional 5-7 positions.
Point of contact: Ryan Boyles <rboyles@usgs.gov>