Advancing community-centered, justice-focused climate adaptation

The Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative assists Tribes and frontline communities in improving their resilience to climate change while addressing the legacy of systemic inequity that continues to influence their lives and livelihoods.

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Community-Centered Resilience-Building

Photo credits, from left: University of Washington; Carol Reiss, USGS: Coast Salish Canoe Journey 2009 landing in Pillar Point; Front & Centered

The Collaborative is split into four main portfolios of work: Tribal Coastal Resilience; Rural Resilience; Scaling Resilience and Evaluation. The Tribal Coastal Resilience Portfolio and the Rural Resilience Portfolio focus on key types of communities facing disproportionate impacts of climate change in the Northwest. Projects in these portfolios integrate research in the natural and social sciences to understand community needs, priorities, values and opportunities for accelerating adaptation, and engage in the community to support actions to increase climate resilience.

The Scaling Resilience Portfolio includes activities designed to accelerate climate adaptation in the Northwest and beyond. The Evaluation Portfolio studies relationships, processes and outcomes of each portfolio to enable adaptive management of projects and advance the science of evaluation and participatory research on resilience.

Science Justice Summer School

Are you a grad student or postdoc at the University of Washington, Seattle University or Seattle Pacific University who is interested in applying climate and environmental justice frameworks in your work? Consider applying to the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative’s first-ever Science Justice Summer School! This two-week program will dive into a range of justice-related topics through lectures, discussion groups and more. Applications close Monday, March 4 at 11:59 p.m. 

The Science Justice Summer School will run from July 10-24, 2024, on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. The summer school is open to second-year master’s students, Ph.D. students, and postdoctoral fellows from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields as well as those in the social sciences and humanities. Students should be attending the University of Washington, Seattle University or Seattle Pacific University and living within daily commuting distance of the UW Seattle campus, as no housing stipends are available for this year’s program. 

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Community Grants Program

The Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative has awarded grants to five community-based organizations across Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Nevada. Community Grants fund justice-focused, environmental and climate projects that advance community-centered resilience priorities.

Black Star Farmers, United Territories Of Pacific Islanders Alliance, Oregon Rural Action, Greater Hells Canyon Council and the Upper Snake River Tribes Foundation are the five recipients of these grants. These organizations are developing Tribal Youth climate education, supporting Queer & Trans Pacific Islander climate leadership, cultivating community gardens for collective liberation and much more.

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News and Events

The Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative is starting two exciting new projects that will support adaptation to flooding and wildfire smoke, thanks to funding from NOAA and the Department of Commerce. Learn more about how one of these projects is using oral histories as a novel method for climate adaptation.

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Partner Organizations

A NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnerships Team

The Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative is part of the NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnerships (CAP) Program (formerly the NOAA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) Program), which supports research that helps build capacity to prepare for and adapt to climate change. The Resilience Collaborative is one of 11 active CAP/RISA teams across the country.

The University of Washington

The Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative is housed at the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington. Several University organizations, including UW EarthLab and the UW College of the Environment, provide financial and administrative support to the Resilience Collaborative.