NE CASC News

Sipping coffee while meeting participants trickled in just before the Deerfield Headwater Stream Workshop, postdoctoral researcher Rachel Katz explained that the workshop is a “proactive approach” to making management decisions, as compared to the usual reactive management approaches following events or disasters.

For a project partly funded by the NE CSC, a USGS and Columbia University team recently completed their study evaluating the effects of sea-level rise on the northeastern U.S.

The Northeast Climate Science Center is proud to present its Annual Report.  Research activities and accomplishments are highlighted for a variety of events and projects held over the last year.  Featured events include: the Shifting Seasons Building Capacity for Tribal

What happens to the value of coastal habitat and wildlife as shorelines continue to be lost to rising sea levels and increasingly frequent extreme weather events? This question is particularly important for coastal National Wildlife Refuge managers serving on the front line of global change impacts

Evil cannibal squirrels may be an essential piece of California's hydrological system.  And they're disappearing.  Research conducted by NE CSC Postdoctoral Fellow Toni Lyn Morelli on the Belding's ground squirrels

Bethany Williams, an undergraduate at Florida State University and an intern with previous NECSC Fellow David Johnson, won best Undergraduate Oral Presentation at the recent New England Estuarine Research Society meeting in Connecticut.

Mark your calendar for the dates of the NE CSC’s spring webinar series: Engaging Stakeholders in Climate Adaptation.  We’ll feature several NE CSC-funded projects that highlight strong stakeholder engagement at various phases of research design and science delivery.

The NE CSC’s Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellows are actively engaged in research that provides scientific information and tools that natural resource managers can use to aid climate adaptation in the Northeast region.  What are they working on and who will benefit from their research?  Watch the video!

NE CSC Fellow David Johnson was standing in a salt marsh on the northern Massachusetts coast when he saw a fiddler crab, Uca pugnax, nearly 50 miles north of its supposed natural range. The migration north of this charismatic crab with the big, waving claw may be yet another sign of climate change.

Funded in part by the NE CSC, WaterViz for Hubbard Brook represents the nexus between the hydrologic sciences, visual arts, music, and computer design. Hydrologic data captured from a small watershed at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire using an array of environmental sensors

In a recent article in International Innovation, NE CSC PI Anthony D’Amato explains his investigations of land use and weather impacts on North American temperate forests.  His findings will help establish evidence-based management strategies to cope with climate change and invasive species.  Effectively managing forests against a context of climate change is a complex task.  Researchers are analysing historical and current empirical records to explore adaptation and mitigation approaches for effective forest management in a warming world.