NW CASC WEBINAR: Updating Your CV to Contextualize Your Contributions in Societally Engaged Work

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Are you a researcher engaging with non-academic partners to develop science that meets real-world needs? If so, you may have noticed that the traditional format of scientific CVs, focused on comprehensive lists of publications and presentations, makes it challenging to convey the distinct skills, activities and products associated with your societally engaged research. So how do you develop a CV that accounts for these real-world contributions, yet still aligns with the traditional CV format expected in academia?

Join the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center’s interactive workshop on December 12 to find out! This work session is designed to support you in incorporating narrative elements into your CV that help contextualize your skills and experiences and better communicate your work. We’ll draw from lessons learned in our previous webinar, Reworking Scientific CVs to Better Capture Societally Engaged Research and Move Towards Fairer Research Assessment.

After setting the stage for why you might consider adding narrative elements into your CV, the webinar will break into small groups and walk through prompts for how to incorporate narrative elements that highlight meaningful, contextual information about your contributions in societally engaged research. There will be a mix of quiet work time as well as time for discussion and questions.

Workshop: Resilience planning for small water systems in Washington

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Virtual Workshop: Resilience planning for small water systems in Washington
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
9 a.m.–noon

This workshop has past. You can access a recording of the workshop or learn more about this project below. 

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In 2021, Washington experienced record heat, precipitation deficits, low streamflows and declining aquifer levels. The fall and winter has brought record rains and flooding that damaged water system infrastructure. Climate change impacts water systems in Washington in a variety of ways. If operators have insufficient information about how their systems are at risk, the reliability and quality of drinking water could be compromised.

Working collaboratively, the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington and Department of Health Office of Drinking Water are offering a virtual workshop on March 1, 2022 (9:00 am to 12:00 pm) to demonstrate ways that small-to-medium sized water utilities can use climate data to help assess their risk and plan to build resilience. 

This workshop is intended for water system leaders, certified operators, and water system engineers who know that their communities depend on safe, reliable drinking water — especially during and in the aftermath of extreme weather events.

This three-hour virtual workshop will feature speakers from the Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington, Office of the Washington State Climatologist, and the Department of Health. These sessions will cover climate impacts related to drought, surface water supply, groundwater availability, and water quality, and how this might affect water system resilience. There will also be an interactive session to assist participants with how to consider climate impacts in resilience planning, along with a brief overview of available tools and resources to support water system adaptation. 

Continuing Education Units are available for participating water system operators.

Crystal Raymond to present in free webinar led by Municipal Research and Services Center

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Dr. Crystal Raymond, climate adaptation specialist, will participate in a webinar on building local climate resiliency on Wednesday, January 12. Event details and registration info below.

Local Climate Response – Building Resiliency and Adapting to Impacts

Wednesday, January 12

11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Credits: CM

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CIG Scientist Harriet Morgan to present in Washington Sea Grant/EarthLab event

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Building Resilience to Sea Level Rise Through Science Innovation and Community Engagement

Date: Tuesday, May 11
Time: 12:30-1:30 p.m.

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Harriet Morgan of the Climate Impacts Group will join Washington Sea Grant’s Ian Miller and Nicole Faghin in this virtual webinar to discuss their work as part of the Washington Coastal Resilience Project. They will delve into the hazards people living in Washington’s coastal areas face – ranging from nuisance flooding during King Tide events, eroding coastlines and wave damage – and how sea level rise is exacerbating these hazards. They will detail how incorporating sea level rise projections into the decision-making process will help Washington communities build resilience to coastal hazards, and how the Washington Coastal Resilience Project employed technical innovations and community engagement to rapidly increase the state’s capacity to support proactive local action on these hazards.

This virtual webinar is part of a series celebrating Washington Sea Grant‘s 50th anniversary of providing research, outreach, communications and education to Washington’s marine communities. EarthLab has partnered with Washington Sea Grant for a special three-part series that builds upon Collaborating Across Difference, an exploration in how individuals from different disciplines, communities or geographies come together around a common goal.

 

CIG launches new tool and webinar for climate-smart stormwater design

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The UW Climate Impacts Group has released an online tool to help stormwater and wastewater managers in the Northwest design and operate with climate change in mind. Developed in collaboration with the City of Portland, City of Gresham and Clackamas County, all in Oregon — and building on previous collaborations in Washington State — the tool provides new localized projections of changing heavy rain events through the end of the 21st century.

Interested in learning more about how to use the tool? Check out our May 20 webinar, featuring UW Climate Impacts Group Scientists Harriet Morgan and Guillaume Mauger, and King County’s Jeff Burkey and Bob Swarner. Morgan and Mauger provide an introduction to the tool, Burkey discusses how King County is using the projections in stormwater design and planning and Swarner describes how King County is using the projections in wastewater planning.

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Most stormwater and wastewater systems are designed based on the assumption that heavy precipitation events are static or unchanging. Yet recent research has shown that Pacific Northwest rainstorms are projected to become more intense with climate change. Projected changes in heavy precipitation events could strain our stormwater and wastewater systems.

To help stormwater managers meet this challenge, climate researchers at the UW Climate Impacts Group and officials in local and city government in Oregon collaborated to develop a tool that will guide the design and operation of 21st century stormwater management systems. Users can hone in on the precipitation frequencies and durations that are most relevant to their specific needs, and results and graphics can be downloaded for later use. Some broad take-aways from the new projections:

  • Extreme events are projected to get larger nearly everywhere in the Northwest, with the largest changes expected in some of the wettest parts of the region (high elevations and windward slopes)
  • Shorter (e.g., one hour) precipitation durations show larger changes than longer (e.g. 48 or 72 hour) durations.

This project builds on collaborations between the UW Climate Impacts Group and local governments in Washington State, including: King and Thurston Counties, the City of Everett, and the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe. The tool shows precipitation data for Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and parts of British Columbia, California, Montana and more.

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Dr. Snover to Give Virtual Briefing on Linking Science & Action

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Director Dr. Amy Snover will give a Livecast briefing for Congressional staff and the broader community on Thursday, April 16, 9–9:45 a.m. PT. In her briefing, “Bridging the Gap Between Science and Decision-Making,” Dr. Snover will discuss the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group and Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center’s programs and methods for advancing climate resilience in the Northwest. The briefing is sponsored by the non-partisan Environmental and Energy Study Institute. Dr. Snover will appear as part of the Institute’s Climate Adaptation Data Week, a briefing series focused on coastal climate adaptation data needs and applications.