Recently Published Paper Calls for Transforming Science Training to Build Capacity for Actionable Climate Adaptation Science

Former NW CASC Fellow Hamid Dashti conducting field work during his NW CASC Fellowship. The NW CASC’s Research Fellowship Program provides support for climate adaptation research as well as instruction in the principles and practices of developing decision-relevant, or actionable science.

How can we mobilize science to support the transformational global action required by climate change? By creating a new type of scientist. SW CASC PI, Alison Meadow, is a co-author of a new open-access paper in the journal Environmental Research Letters that emphasizes the need for science training, and that builds collaborative science skills at different career stages to develop a strong community of practice around actionable climate science. The paper, Building capacity for societally engaged climate science by transforming science training (Rozance et al. 2020), draws from the experiences at the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group, Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center and the University of Arizona Climate Assessment for the Southwest, to offer a perspective on a path for the academy to better develop, train and support scientists to conduct societally-relevant research. Read the paper here.