New funding for the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative supports work in flooding, wildfire smoke

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The Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative is starting two exciting new projects this year that will support adaptation to flooding and wildfire smoke, thanks to funding from NOAA and the Department of Commerce. These projects are: 

Stories as science: Integrating lived experience and community knowledge into actionable adaptation science in Pacific Northwest and Pacific Islands regions. This project brings together researchers and storytellers from the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative, the Pacific Research on Island Solutions for Adaptation program and Tikkun Olam Productions. A recent story from the Resilience Collaborative highlights how this project aims to elevate the experiences of frontline communities while testing the oral history process as a novel method for co-producing science and guiding adaptation.

Understanding the role of social infrastructure in extreme heat and wildfire smoke vulnerability mitigation: A regional comparison in the West and Pacific Northwest regions. This project brings together researchers from the Desert Research Institute and the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative.

Both projects are supported by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which is awarding $3.9 million over four years to existing NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnerships teams (formerly known as Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments). The eight projects receiving this funding will test, scale up and transfer knowledge to build national adaptation to floods and wildfires across eight different projects.