CASC Climate Adaptation Technical Services
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By Climate Adaptation Science Centers
January 17, 2025
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.
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