The Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center has produced an introduction to its mission and FY 2025 priorities to provide valuable insights to stakeholders, policymakers, and associated researchers. Click through to learn more about the center’s collaborative efforts and research activities aimed at tackling climate change in the southwestern U.S.

The Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center has produced yearly annual reports since 2011 in an effort to provide helpful information to stakeholders, policy makers, and associated researchers. Click through to find out more information about this and get a quick overview of the efforts and research the SW CASC has been doing throughout the years.

This article explores a strategy to protect our coastal wetlands from rising sea levels: adding new sediment! The study compares a marsh restoration project in southern California to natural processes to explore how effective this method is.

The one-day workshop, Current Coastal Resource Management and Planning Priorities – How does Climate Fit In?, was held in Los Angeles, California, at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on August 20, 2019, and brought together SW CASC scientists and coastal resource managers. The first meeting, described in this report, set priorities and research aims, the second meeting will provide an interim assessment by a smaller select group of engaged stakeholders, and the final larger meeting will focus on communication of results and framing of management and planning actions required for current and future needs and priorities.

A new issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment published on December 1, 2017 focuses on the emerging field of translational ecology. Modeled after translational medicine, the field aims to connect researchers in ecology with the people who apply that research on a day-to-day basis—policy makers, local governments, and natural resource managers. Work featured in the special issue was funded by the USGS through the Southwest Climate Science Center and National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center.

The final technical report for "Preventing Extreme Fire Events by Learning from Historical Fire Events, Weather, and Drought" provides a better understanding of the longer- and shorter-term environmental factors that drive fire activity and provides the basis for a new set of predictive models of wildland fires using weather and drought measures for the major climate regions in California. The project is a combined effort from researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Desert Research Institute.