Introduction
Created in 2017, the USET Climate Change Resilience Program assists Tribal Nations with climate change adaptation planning. Through the Tribal Climate Science Liaison, this program also connects Tribal Nations with resources at regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers and other partners to support Tribal adaptation planning and resilience to climate change.
Visit the SE CASC website
Visit the SE CASC website
Visit the SC CASC website
Visit the SC CASC website
The new NICRN website is coming soon!
The new NICRN website is coming soon!
Events, Webinars, and Trainings
Events, Webinars, and Trainings
See all upcoming climate change events.
Funding Opportunities
Funding Opportunities
Find information about the latest funding announcements, opportunities, and RFPs in the natural resources and climate change arena.
Student Opportunities
Student Opportunities
Find information about the latest scholarships, internships, fellowships, and other opportunities for Native students in the areas of natural resources and climate change.
Resolutions, Reports, and Testimony
Resolutions, Reports, and Testimony
Access USET’s official resolutions, reports, and testimonies related to climate change.
Climate Change 101
Climate Change 101
Learn about the basics of climate change phenomena.
Climate Forecasts
Climate Forecasts
Get a forecast of your region’s climate for the next 3-6 months. Get a sense of what short term changes and anomalies may be occurring and look at regional temperature, precipitation, and drought data.
Fourth National Climate Assessment
Fourth National Climate Assessment
Access information on this report, recordings of USET events that have explored it, and the full report.
Tribal Climate Planning Documents and Publications
Tribal Climate Planning Documents and Publications
Find a collection of Climate Adaptation Plans and vulnerability assessments that are publicly available and produced by Tribal Nations or organizations.
This Month's Top News and Stories
Introduction to Climate Modeling for Forest Management Webinar on March 28-29
Join the USET Climate Resilience program, the US Forest Service, and the Southeast and South Central Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASCs) for an online workshop. The first day of the workshop will provide an overview of climate modeling basics and examples of tools that can be used for management decisions on the second day. The training will be especially useful for staff and managers of Tribal Nations in the southern USET region but may be broadly applicable.
Biden-Harris Administration Announces $100 Million in Environmental Justice Grants through IRA/EPA - Apply by April 10
The newly-announced funding will be distributed through the EPA’s Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving (EJCPS) Program ($30 million) and the Environmental Justice Government-to-Government (EJG2G) Program ($70 million).
Ranco Awarded $50K to Expand Climate Change Resilience Work with Wabanaki Communities
Darren Ranco, a member of the NE CASC academic leadership team and chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine, has been awarded $50,000 to expand his work on adaptive resilience to climate change with Wabanaki communities. The award will be used to host two knowledge-gathering conferences with Wabanaki elders and knowledge keepers in order to update the Wabanaki Climate Adaptation and Adaptive Management Workbook, a culturally relevant guide for climate adaptation in Maine’s Wabanaki communities. The conferences will address adaptation strategies in two priority sectors: women and water systems, and plants and terrestrial systems.
Virginia Invasive Species Management Plan 2011
The scope of the Plan covers all invasive species, both terrestrial and aquatic, from microbe to mammals, in Virginia. The purpose of the Plan is to provide a framework for state agency action to minimize economic, environmental, and human harm from invasive species by acting on the seven goals…
Virginia Department of Forestry: Forest Health Review 2020
This report is put together by the Virginia Department of Forestry and highlights the most recent happenings in forest health throughout the state. Access the Resource
USGS Invasive Species Habitat Tool (INHABIT)
Before we can project range shifts with climate change, it’s important that we understand invasive species’ current distributions and potential to spread, given today’s climate. While distribution maps for individual invasive plants exist, they tend to be inconsistent in the sources of occurrence data, modeling processes, spatial resolution, and…
USGS Earth Explorer
The EarthExplorer (EE) user interface is an online search, discovery, and ordering tool developed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). EE supports the searching of satellite, aircraft, and other remote sensing inventories through interactive and textual-based query capabilities. Registered users of EE have access to more features than…
USFS/NIACS Adaptation Menu
The second edition of Forest Adaptation Resources: Climate Change Tools and Approaches for Land Managers, like its predecessor, is intended to provide perspective, information, and tools to land managers considering how to adapt forest ecosystems to a changing climate. Adaptation strategy concepts and information can be found on page…
USFS Forest Vegetation Simulator Online
Modeling the Forest: The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a forest growth simulation model. It simulates forest vegetation change in response to natural succession, disturbances, and management. It recognizes all major tree species and can simulate nearly any type of management or disturbance at any time during the simulation.…
USET Webinar: Saltwater Intrusion – Concerns and Solutions
On December 9, 2021, USET hosted a webinar on the impacts and potential resiliency solutions to saltwater intrusion in coastal landscapes. Two presenters shared information during the webinar: Stacy Myers, Senior Scientist and Liaison, Heritage and Environment Resources Office, Seminole Tribe of FloridaChristopher Miller, Cape May Plant Materials Center…