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SE CASC Fact Sheet 2023-5: SE CASC Tribal Activities

This fact sheet provided an overview of SE CASC’s work with Tribal Nations and Indigenous communities for Tribal-led climate change adaptation planning.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2023-4: SE CASC General Information Postcard

This informational postcard includes an overview of the SE CASC, its mission, and its science themes

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2023-3: Global Change Research Fellows Informational Postcard

This informational postcard includes an overview of the SE CASC Global Change Fellows program, along with information about program alumni and a testimonial from a 2021 graduate.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2023-2: Arkansas Project Highlights

This 2-page fact sheet provides short descriptions of projects and their impacts funded by the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center that are relevant to the state of Arkansas.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2023-1: SE CASC Work in Caribbean

This fact sheet provides an overview of the Southeast CASC, it’s mission, and its work in the Caribbean.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2022-2: SE CASC Science

This document provides descriptive summaries of SE CASC supported science projects implemented or initiated through FY22.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2022-1: Global Change Fellows Informational Postcard

This informational postcard includes an overview of the SE CASC Global Change Fellows program, along with information about program alumni and a testimonial from a 2017 graduate.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2020-4: Mapping Ecosystem Services for the SE: Conservation and Restoration Priorities for Water Purification

This methods brief assesses the potential for water purification by natural land cover, as part of the SE CASC funded project, Ecosystem Services Mapping Datasets.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2020-3: Building Adaptive Capacity in a Coastal Region Experiencing Global Change

This fact sheet associated with the SE CASC funded project, Climate Change Adaptation for Coastal National Wildlife Refuges details lessons learned from a case study investigating the social process of adaptation planning in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2020-2: Mapping Ecosystem Services for the SE: Conservation Priorities for Open Space Recreation Access

This methods brief maps the supply of publicly accessible open spaces relative to where people live, as part of the SE CASC funded project, Ecosystem Services Mapping Datasets.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2020-1: Alabama Project Highlights

This 2-page fact sheet provides short descriptions of projects and their impacts funded by the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center that are relevant to the state of Alabama.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2019-4: Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center Research

This document provides descriptive summaries of SE CASC supported science projects implemented or initiated through the end of 2019.

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SE CASC Fact Sheet 2019-3: Mapping Ecosystem Services for the SE: Conservation and Restoration Priorities for Wild Pollinator Habitat

This methods brief maps the supply of potential wild pollinator habitat and the demand for pollination from agriculture, as part of the SE CASC funded project, Ecosystem Services Mapping Datasets. Regional conservation and restoration priority areas are also identified.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2019-2: Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center Informational Fact Sheet

A one-page informational fact sheet that provides basic information about the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center and some of its research and capacity-building activities in the context of projected climate and land use change in the region.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2019-1: South Carolina Project Highlights

This 2-page fact sheet provides short descriptions of projects and their impacts funded by the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center that are relevant to the state of South Carolina.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2018-1: Florida Project Highlights

This 2-page fact sheet provides short descriptions of projects and their impacts funded by the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center that are relevant to the state of Florida.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2018-2: Tennessee Project Highlights

This 2-page fact sheet provides short descriptions of projects and their impacts funded by the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center that are relevant to the state of Tennessee.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2018-3: North Carolina Project Highlights

This 2-page fact sheet provides short descriptions of projects and their impacts funded by the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center that are relevant to the state of North Carolina.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2018-4: Review of State Wildlife Action Plans Report Summary

This executive summary highlights the key observations and recommendations from the full report by the Vital Futures Project — a collaboration among the National Wildlife Federation, North Carolina State University, and University of South Carolina — which assessed how states have addressed current and projected climate change in their recently updated Wildlife Action Plans.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2017-1: Ecological Drought in the Southeast United States

A summary of a Southeast CASC workshop aimed at collating existing knowledge about ecological drought, defined as a prolonged and widespread deficit in naturally available water supplies that create multiple stresses across ecosystems.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2017-2: Ecological Drought Management Challenges

A one-page summary deriving from regional workshops on ecological drought, describing management challenges in each U.S. region, with highlights of SE CASC projects that address management challenges in the Southeast.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2016-03: Ecosystem Vulnerability to Climate Change in the Southeastern United States

Two recent investigations of climate-change vulnerability for 19 terrestrial, aquatic, riparian, and coastal ecosystems of the southeastern United States have identified a number of important considerations, including potential for changes in hydrology, disturbance regimes, and interspecies interactions. Together, these studies help create a foundation for ecosystem-level analysis of climate-change vulnerability to support effective biodiversity conservation in the southeastern United States.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2016-02: Turning Uncertainty into Useful Information for Conservation Decisions

Uncertainty is always present in conservation and other socio-ecological decisions, which can make choices uncomfortable and challenging. All choices have consequences – including the choice to do nothing. This fact sheet discusses the pervasiveness of uncertainty, the importance of understanding varying perceptions of uncertainty, and avenues for progress in the presence of uncertainty and differing risk tolerances.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2016-01: Keeping Pace: A short guide to navigating SLR models

A four-page guide that walks decision makers, community planners, and resource managers through the importance of model selection, some need-to-know concepts, model categories, and an example. The fact sheet summarizes the USGS Sea-Level Rise Modeling Handbook and includes links to that document and a new categorized list of sea-level rise models.

SE CASC Fact Sheet 2015-01: Downscaled Climate Projections for the Southeast: Evaluation and Use for Ecological Applications

This fact sheet summarizes information from a comprehensive U.S. Geological Survey report, Wootten et al, 2014, that evaluates six widely used downscaled climate projections that cover the southeastern United States and recommends best practices for use of downscaled datasets for ecological modeling and decision-making.