June 2025 Newsletter
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Southeast CASC News
The 2025 Southeast CASC Regional Science Symposium is fast approaching! Happening Sept 9-11, 2025 in Asheville, NC, you can view a draft block agenda, see available event details, register, and apply to present a poster on our event page.
We’re so excited to welcome our 2025-26 Global Change Research Fellows from across the consortium who will be joining us for the next year!
A group of the 2024-25 Global Change Research Fellows wrote up the Fall 2024 SERISCC workshop summary.
2023-24 Global Change Research Fellow, Thomas Thelen, is a co-author on a new paper in Communications Earth and Environment on Land-based sensors reveal high frequency of coastal flooding.
Check out the latest data release from researchers at SE CASC and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville on climate change in State Wildlife Action Plans.
Catch up on the latest Science Seminars on Update and New Directions: The DOI Nature-Based Solutions Roadmap and Integrating Sea Level Rise into Everglades Restoration Planning.
Gregory Guannel talks about a beach erosion study that produces unexpected findings and a cause for concern in a St. Thomas Source article.
A new article in Society and Natural Resources co-authored by Erin Seekamp examines Perspectives on liberating and deliberating knowledge in science.
Paul Armsworth is the lead author on an article on Strategically timing land protection decisions to enhance biodiversity benefits in The Society for Conservation Biology.
Lydia Olander offers her expertise on if we’re prepared for the upcoming hurricane and wildfire season in a Duke Today article.
Community News from the Southeast
Partners
The USDA Southeast Climate Hub collaborated with the NOAA National Integrated Drought Information System Southeast Drought Early Warning System on a report detailing drought impact reporting processes for the agriculture sector: an assessment of approaches, barriers, and opportunities in the Southeastern United States.
Audubon North Carolina is calling on birders to help western North Carolina spring back this migration season.
NOAA has released an explainer on sargassum: from sea to shore.
SERISCC has a new listserv you can join for the monthly newsletter, latest updates, calls for collaboration, and workshops in the region.
Tribal
Visit USET Climate Change Headlines for updates and highlights from across the USET region.
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians held a send-off ceremony for 2025 Remember the Removal cyclists.
The Desert Research Institute, in partnership with the Climate Science Alliance, the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals and the Collaborative of Native Nations for Climate Transformation and Stewardship, is hosting a series of webinars on Extreme Heat Adaptation in Indigenous Communities.
The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians appreciates its accurate portrayal in the blockbuster hit ‘Sinners‘.
Gatherings
Webinars
- June 26 | 12pm ET | Evaluating the impacts of socio-economic factors and climate change on Loggerhead sea turtle nesting counts in Florida
- July 10 | 11am ET | River Cane Restoration and Propagation Techniques
- July 10 | 3pm ET | Visualizing the Economies within Coastal Inundation Zones
- July 15 | 3pm ET | Extreme Heat Adaptation in Indigenous Communities Webinar Series: Regional-level Solutions
Events
- Sept 9 | 2025 Southeast CASC Regional Science Symposium | Asheville, NC
- Sept 21 | AFWA Annual Meeting | Tucson, AZ
Find more events on our calendar.
Resources and Publications
Resources
- Total Water Level and Coastal Change Forecast Viewer. This tool by USGS, NOAA, and NWS provides a national assessment of storm-induced coastal change hazards. It displays operational total water level forecasts and coastal change predictions for select regions of the U.S. coastline using local beach characteristics.
- More Resilient by Design: North Carolina’s Flood Resiliency Blueprint. This Spring 2025 update is North Carolina’s science-based and stakeholder-driven initiative designed to support the planning, evaluation, and implementation of flood resilience strategies.
- The National Risk Index.This FEMA tool is an interactive National Risk Index Map to visually explore natural hazard risk data across the United States.
Publications
How Will Precipitation Characteristics Associated with Tropical Cyclones in Diverse Synoptic Environments in the Southeast United States Respond to Climate Change? Journal of Hydrometeorology
The authors looked at three North Atlantic tropical cyclones that impacted the southeast to assess how a future climate might change their impact. Using a pseudo-global warming approach, they compared the actual precipitation patterns from these storms to future precipitation characteristics. They found that future tropical cyclone events could have larger spatial footprints of heavy precipitation but smaller increases in rain rate.
Challenges and priorities for climate-informed invasive species management across multiple scales. Conservation Science and Practice
Climate change has a profound effect on invasive species management, but there isn’t always alignment between researchers and practitioner needs. The authors compared survey responses from the Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change (RISCC) Management Network to identify common priorities and challenges in managing invasive species in a changing climate across the United States. They found that common barriers to climate-informed invasive species management include limited time, funding, and personnel.
Ecological thresholds and transformations due to climate change: The role of abiotic stress. Ecosphere
The authors argue that there is a strong relationship between abiotic stress, climate-driven ecological thresholds, and the risk of ecosystem transformation under climate change. They also present a conceptual framework based on the links between abiotic stress, climate-driven ecological threshold responses, and the risk of ecosystem transformation, and propose a simple approach for quantifying ecological thresholds.
Opportunities
Student Announcements
Maastricht University in Germany seeks a PhD candidate for a food systems education project. Apply by July 2.
Hiring Announcements
Buncombe County Government is hiring a Helene Recovery Officer. Apply by July 6.
The University of South Carolina is hiring a Student Sustainability Engagement Coordinator. Apply by July 30.
USAA is hiring a Senior Demographic and Exposure Forecasting Analyst and a Senior Climate Scientist. Open until filled.
Rutgers University is hiring an Applied Climate Scientist/State Climatologist. Open until filled.
The University of Texas at Austin is seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar to focus on Climate and Community Resilience, and Planet Texas 2050. Open until filled.
Funding Announcements
The WWF Heart of Conservation Initiative is calling for expressions of interest. Due by June 30.
The DOD Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Program is accepting pre-proposals for its 2026 REPI Challenge. Due by July 3.
NFWF requests proposals for the Monarch Butterfly and Pollinators Conservation Fund 2025. Due by July 8.
NFWF requests proposals for the Southeast Aquatics Fund 2025. Due by July 8.
NFWF request proposals for the Cumberland Plateau-Southern Appalachians Stewardship Fund 2025. Due by July 16.
The FWS Coastal Program grant is accepting proposals. Due by September 30.
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