Research Highlights

Oct 20, 2022

Science to Action Fellowship: Former Global Change Fellows Perspectives

In mid-August, SE CASC climate science translation and communication fellows Kristen Fontana and Brittany Salmons interviewed two former Global Change Fellows (GCF) Megan Johnson and Lise Montefiore. After their time as SE CASC… 

Oct 17, 2022

Researcher Spotlight – Samantha Michlowitz

2022-23 Global Change Fellow MS student, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences (MEAS)Advisor: Dr. Sarah LarsonEvery year the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center funds a multi-disciplinary cohort of Global Change… 

Oct 7, 2022

Southeast CASC Initiates New Actionable Science Projects

Research funded by the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center encompasses a range of science activities that contribute to understanding the exposure and impacts of global change on resources that matter… 

Oct 5, 2022

Making Equitable Climate Adaptation a Priority

Brittany Salmons is an ORISE Climate Science Translation and Communications Fellow for the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (SE CASC) and an alumna of the Climate Change and Society Program… 

Sep 28, 2022

Research Shows How Conservation Strategy Selection Can Impact Landscape Connectivity

2018-19 SE CASC Global Change Fellow, Tina Mozelewski, was first author on a recent publication in the journal Conservation Biology, Forecasting the influence of conservation strategies on landscape connectivity. SE CASC Faculty Affiliate… 

Aug 16, 2022

Land-Grab Universities: How the Morrill Act funded land grant universities by taking Indigenous lands

In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, which turned nearly 11 million acres of land expropriated from tribal nations into seed money for land grant universities. This November,… 

Aug 3, 2022

Perspectives from Morgan Chavis, Science Communication Intern with National CASC and NC State

Morgan Chavis, student at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, just finished her Science Communication summer internship supported by the National and Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Centers. This post… 

Jun 26, 2022

SE CASC Supported Study Projects Increased Habitat Loss and Carbon Release in Coastal Marshes

A new publication by SE CASC researchers Katie Warnell, Lydia Olander (Duke Consortium PI), and Carolyn Currin entitled, Sea level rise drives carbon and habitat loss in the U.S. mid-Atlantic… 

Jun 20, 2022

SE CASC Study Analyzes Academic Contribution and Stakeholder Use of Collaborative Research

A new publication by a SE CASC-supported research team, Amanda A. Hyman, Steph L. Courtney, Karen S. McNeal, Lalasia Bialic-Murphey, Cari S. Furiness, Mitchell J. Eaton, Paul R. Armsworth, Distinct… 

Jun 15, 2022

Global Change Fellow Shows Shorter, Wider Flowers May Transmit More Parasites to Bees

A new publication, Floral shape predicts bee–parasite transmission potential, has been published in the journal, Ecology, authored by 2019-20 SE CASC Global Change Fellow Mario Simon Pinilla-Gallego. SE CASC University…