Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center

🌱Join us for our next science seminar on accounting for future change in #WildlifeActionPlans!

📆Happening Feb 18 at 10am ET, this seminar is hybrid with options to attend in person NC State or on zoom: https://loom.ly/JDvqyCw

Cornelius Ojo, 2025-26 Global Change Research Fellow, shares his work in #EnvironmentalDesign 🍃and how blind spots in recovery efforts shape long term #CommunityHealth.

🔎 Read here: https://loom.ly/dCG2quU

⚡Our first science seminar of the year features our incredible postdocs Hannah Desrochers, Diane Sturgeon, & Sierra Pérez! Join us on Jan 21 at 1pm ET for lightning talks on their work using #AI to synthesize #ClimateData, & plant responses to #ClimateExtremes.
Register now: https://loom.ly/m-CvHf8

The Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (SE CASC) is seeking their next Communications & Engagement Manager. This is a full-time position based at NC State University in Raleigh, NC.

Learn more and apply here: https://loom.ly/82KBUmE

🔎🌱 As 2025 comes to a close, the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center reflects on a year of partnership-driven science, training, and applied research supporting climate adaptation.

👉 Read the full 2025 retrospective:
https://secasc.ncsu.edu/2025/12/16/2025-southeast-casc-retrospective/

Join the North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute (WRRI) for its Annual Conference.

🗓 March 25–26, 2026
📍 McKimmon Center, NC State University in Raleigh

🔗 Learn more and register: https://wrri.ncsu.edu/events/conference/

🌿🛠️ New Blog: The Everglades Restoration is Shaping Better Tools for All Managers

👉 Read the blog: https://secasc.ncsu.edu/2025/12/15/coproduced-tools-everglades-restoration/
👉 Go straight to the publication: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00267-025-02320-0

💧 A new assessment from NOAA’s National Integrated Drought Information System offers a comprehensive retrospective on the 2023 fall flash drought across the Southeastern U.S.

👉 Access it here: https://www.drought.gov/documents/facing-future-droughts-lessons-southeasts-2023-fall-flash-drought

🌿🎓 Inside the 2025 Global Change Research Fellows' Field Intensive!

We went to Columbia, NC to meet with practitioners working on red wolf conservation, salt water intrusion, and human community impacts.

👉 Read the full recap: https://secasc.ncsu.edu/2025/12/15/2025-field-intensive/

🌿 New Data Available: Coquí Llanero Abundance & Habitat Records

Explore and download the data here: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/691dfc03d4be02142cbce6db

Photo by Luis J. Villanueva

Join us on Thursday, December 18 at 1:00 PM ET for the webinar: “Collaboratively Assessing the Status and Vulnerability of Bees in the Southeast and U.S. Caribbean for Effective Management Action” 🐝🌱

🔗 Register here: https://go.ncsu.edu/f25scisem-bees

🌍🔬 Researcher Spotlight: Peizhe Li

We’re thrilled to highlight Li, a 2025–26 Global Change Research Fellow at SE CASC and PhD student in the Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management at North Carolina State University.

https://secasc.ncsu.edu/2025/11/21/researcher-spotlight-peizhe-li/

🌊 Researcher Spotlight – Meet Sam Holberg, our 2025-26 Global Change Research Fellow!

"I hope that coastal stakeholders and management agencies can benefit from my research," says Holberg.

👉 Read his full story: https://loom.ly/EpLghwM

Fall 2025 Newsletter Catch up on all the latest news, events, and webinars in the SE CASC monthly newsletter.

🍂Our latest newsletter is chalk full of everything you may have missed this past fall from exciting new #publications to #GreenJob opportunities, and more!

🔎Read the full newsletter here: https://loom.ly/n5x1aYg

🌿💧 Introducing the DEWD — a new interactive database that pulls together 100+ tools to help managers understand, prepare for, and respond to ecological drought in the Southeast.

The DEWD makes it easy to explore and compare resources in one place: https://secasc.ncsu.edu/2025/11/17/dewd/

Join us on Thursday, December 18 at 1:00 PM ET for the webinar: “Collaboratively Assessing the Status and Vulnerability of Bees in the Southeast and U.S. Caribbean for Effective Management Action” 🐝🌱

🔗 Register here: https://go.ncsu.edu/f25scisem-bees

🌾 Researcher Spotlight – Meet Alyssa Tomb!

Her current research examines wintering mallards in bottomland hardwood forests of Arkansas.

👉 Read his full story: https://loom.ly/NV8iWq8

Applications are open for the 2026–27 SE CASC Global Change Research Fellows! 🌿🎓

Includes a stipend, tuition/health coverage, a field intensive, and a supportive cohort experience.

⏱️ Deadline: Jan 12, 2026. Learn more & apply: https://loom.ly/I1eFeD4

Join the SE CASC Global Change Research Fellows' Fall Webinar, “Decision Support Tools for Stakeholders in Coastal Southeast, USA."

🗓️ Date & Time: November 20th, 1:00-2:00pm ET
Zoom Registration: https://go.ncsu.edu/gcrf-fall-seminar-reg

🌿 Researcher Spotlight – Meet Cory McKinstry!

McKinstry is a 2025-26 Global Change Research Fellow. His work on disease ecology focuses on Ophidiomyces ophidiicola (“Oo”), a fungal pathogen of snakes.

👉 Read his full story: https://loom.ly/nM0CFHI

🔦 Researcher Spotlight — Meet Asmit Neupane, 2025-26 Global Change Research Fellow

"Temperature rise and shifting rainfall matter, but extremes often determine survival or failure for ecosystems," says Neupane.

👉 Read his story: https://loom.ly/ZS7p8bA

🌍 Join Our Team at Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center! We are looking for our next **Assistant Consortium Director**

📍 Location: Raleigh, NC (on-campus at NC State)
📅 Application: Open until filled: https://loom.ly/wMn5vaU

#climatejob #sciencejob #projectmanagement 🧪

🐝 Upcoming Seminar: Collaboratively Assessing the Status and Vulnerability of Bees in the Southeast and US Caribbean for Effective Management Action

📅 Oct. 15 at 1:00pm ET
🎙️ Dr. Hailey Shanovich, USGS
🌐 Zoom

🔗 Learn more and register: https://loom.ly/v8Xb_-s

September 2025 Newsletter Catch up on all the latest news, events, and webinars in the SE CASC monthly newsletter.

⏰September is ending but our #newsletter has some timeless blogs, #GreenJobOpportunities, and can't miss events! 🌍 Read the full thing on our website: https://loom.ly/o2c9jOw

The NOAA Southeast and Caribbean Regional Collaboration Team (SECART) is pleased to announce the release of the updated “Disaster Guide”.

You can access the updated Guide (in both English and Spanish!) here: https://www.noaa.gov/regions/noaa-disaster-resilience

🌿 10 Ways SE CASC is Strengthening the Southeast 🌍

Since 2011, SE CASC has created science that is useful and used by our partners. Here, we highlight ten key examples that show how we’re serving the Southeast.

🔗: https://secasc.ncsu.edu/2025/09/17/strengthening-southeast/

🚨There's still time to apply for the Invasive Vines Winter Institute! Students will get a chance to engage in hands-on learning about #InvasiveSpecies management methods in the #Southeast.

🌎Learn more and apply by Sept 28: https://loom.ly/WnQgTrQ

Attention #students, faculty, practitioners, and community members across #NorthCarolina 📣 #NCWRRI is accepting #abstracts for their 2026 Annual Conference!

🚨 Submit by Nov 10: https://loom.ly/Rdtfs1A

Happening next week: Our colleagues at the The Caribbean Green Technology Center at UVI are hosting Heat Summit 2025 on Friday, September 26, 2025.

Hybrid. Register for the Heat Summit here: https://loom.ly/AvoouH0

📣Attention grad students: applications for the Invasive Vines Winter Institute are open! This incredible program offers students a chance to contribute to the development of an integrative approach to #InvasiveSpecies management.

🍃Learn more and apply by Sept 28: https://loom.ly/WnQgTrQ