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The Climate Adaptation Science program is a graduate specialization/minor that provides students with direct experience in actionable science through internships and research.

05/01/2025

CAS grad Diane Wagner interned with the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission in the summer of 2022. While interning, she helped improve the instream habitat of the Lower Diamond Fork River and investigated the river channel change from 2011 to 2018. Fascinating!

04/24/2025

Meet Motasem Abualqumboz - a CAS graduate. He completed CAS while working on his graduate degree in USU's Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. We are so impressed with him and his work and are excited to see what his future brings.

04/22/2025

Happy Earth Day!!! Psst... if you want to learn more about our earth, how its climate changes, and what science can do to help us adapt - join the CAS program!

04/16/2025

Dr. Geno Schupp is the CAS Program's Associate Director and an excellent advisor/mentor for CAS trainees. We are so grateful for his participation in the CAS program. Unfortunately for us, he will be retiring this year... Make sure to glean as much knowledge from him as you can before he goes!

04/10/2025

Dr. Rob Davies, a CAS faculty member, is featured in a project titled ‘The Crossroads Project | Rising Tide’. This project is a collaborative Art and Science performance weaving together poetic science, compelling imagery, and powerful music to tell the story of the Biosphere. This project was created at Utah State University and has been performed more than 30 times across the nation, as well as Mexico and Brazil.

If you would like to learn more about Dr. Davies, his work, and the Crossroads Project, use the following link: https://sites.google.com/view/usurobdavies/home?authuser=0

04/08/2025

With Utah experiencing spring temperatures, we have the opportunity to see more of Utah's natural bird population. However, according to Utah's Audubon Society, Utah's birds may lose more than half of their current range (geographic area where they live) because of changing climate conditions and habitat reductions.

If you are interested in what bird species are affected by Utah's climate change visit https://www.audubon.org/climate/survivalbydegrees/state/us/ut

03/28/2025

CAS trainee Patrick Kelly interned with A.R.O. Ranch - a ranch that manages bison. Patrick learned about bison, how managing them differs from cattle, and what it takes to manage herds. What a fascinating internship!

03/26/2025

Emily Fletcher is a CAS grad who studied risk perceptions of negative emissions technology and climate change mitigation (a bit of a mouthful :) In other words, Emily is interested in how people view technology and policies that relate to climate change. Emily joined the CAS program in the Fall of 2020 and was placed in a sub-group of three. Their research focused on the dessication of the Great Salt Lake and addressed the question, "Can past hydroclimate variability explain GSL levels and is there a relationship between lake levels and air quality issues?" Emily and her sub-group have completed their research and are currently trying to publish their work.

03/20/2025

When ecosystems are healthy and sustained by physical, chemical, and biological processes, they produce Ecosystem Services. Climate change has affected the health of our ecosystems and made these “services” erratic in their production and availability. To learn more about ecosystem services, and/or help our ecosystem’s health, use the following links:

https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Understanding-Conservation/Ecosystem-Services
https://www.fs.fed.us/ecosystemservices/About_ES/
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7914/

03/14/2025

CAS Grads Will Munger, Sofia Koutzoukis, and Lindsay Capito worked with the Northwestern Band of Shoshone to restore the ecology of Boa Ogoi, the site of the largest mass murder of Native Americans in the history of the United States. For more information on their project and the Northwestern Band of Shoshone's restoration plan, click the link and view the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkG_M_XbHKM
https://www.nwbshoshone.com/boa-ogoi-cultural-interpretive-center-1/

03/12/2025

Mitchell Parsons is a CAS GRAD! He has a PhD in Wildlife Ecology and a background in avian and mammalian research. While at USU he studied the interactions between cougar, deer, and wild pigs in California.

03/07/2025

Dr. Patrick Belmont, a member of the CAS faculty, has a lab that studies a wide range of topics within the fields of hydrology, geomorphology, and climate adaptation science. These topics include:
• Hydrologic modeling and development of watershed water budgets
• Modeling, measurement and analysis of landscape erosion, sediment transport, and deposition
• Development of sediment budgets
• Geochemical ‘sediment fingerprinting’ and analysis of cosmogenic nuclides to study Earth-surface processes and long-term erosion rates
• Topographic analysis for feature extraction, geomorphic change detection and watershed classification
• Sediment as a water quality metric in streams and rivers

Address

Logan, UT
84322

Telephone

+14357972555

Website

https://www.usu.edu/climate-adaptation/

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