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.
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 and Youth Opportunities
Student and Youth 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, Comments, and Testimony
Resolutions, Comments, and Testimony
Access USET’s official resolutions, comments, and testimonies related to climate change.
Climate Adaptation 101
Climate Adaptation 101
Learn about the basics of climate change planning and resilience.
Climate Resilience Employment Opportunities
Climate Resilience Employment Opportunities
Fifth National Climate Assessment
Fifth National Climate Assessment
Learn about the 2023 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
USET Climate Resilience Program’s 2024 in Review
The USET Tribal Climate Resilience Program would like to thank everyone who joined us for meetings, discussions, and events in 2024. We’d like to share a few of the activities and events we participated in this year, and invite you to join or invite us to more in 2025!
2025 Youth and Student Opportunities in Climate Resilience Open for Applications
Winter is the time for students to find their next internship, research, or scholarship opportunities! From high school to post-PhD, you can be paid to work on Indigenous climate resilience.
College of Menominee Nation releases first Climate Comic Strip
Episode 1, titled “Wǣqsēh-kēsekat ayāwek akuaceh?”, explores how non-local beings like the emerald ash borer are moving into the land of the Menominee and contributing to environmental change. The series is supported by USET partners at the Indigenous Climate Resilience Network (ICRN).
Tribal Climate Adaptation Guidebook
The Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, along with Adaptation International, created the Tribal Climate Adaptation Guidebook, which provides a framework for climate change adaptation planning in the context of existing Tribal priorities. The Guidebook builds on the ongoing climate-related work in Tribal communities, directly considers the unique issues facing Indigenous communities, and identifies…
The Guidebook provides a framework for climate change adaptation planning in the context of existing Tribal priorities.
Tribal Adaptation Menu – external
The Menu provides a framework to integrate Indigenous and traditional knowledge, culture, language and history into the climate adaptation planning process. It is an extensive collection of climate change adaptation actions for natural resource management, organized into tiers of general and more specific ideas.
Tribal Adaptation Menu
Many climate adaptation planning tools fail to address the unique needs, values and cultures of Indigenous communities. The Tribal Climate Adaptation Menu, which was developed by a diverse group of collaborators representing Tribal, academic, intertribal and government entities in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, provides a framework to integrate Indigenous and…
The Menu provides a framework to integrate Indigenous and traditional knowledge, culture, language and history into the climate adaptation planning process.
The U.S. Drought Monitor
The U.S. Drought Monitor is a map released every Thursday showing parts of the U.S. that are in drought. The map uses five classifications: abnormally dry (D0), showing areas that may be going into or are coming out of drought, and four levels of drought: moderate (D1), severe (D2),…
The State of Narragansett Bay and Its Watershed – Technical Report
Today’s environmental status of Narragansett Bay (Bay) and the entire Narragansett Bay Watershed (Watershed) is the result of hundreds of years of human activities and environmental variability. Numerous organizations have worked together for decades to reverse trends of declining environmental conditions and to understand new threats such as those…
The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4)
The Global Change Research Act of 1990 mandates that the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) deliver a report to Congress and the President no less than every four years that “1) integrates, evaluates, and interprets the findings of the Program…; 2) analyzes the effects of global change on the natural…
The Commonwealth of Virginia: The Natural Communities of Virginia: Ecological Groups and Community Types
This document lists the full classification hierarchy and includes the 82 ecological groups and 308 community types currently defined for Virginia. It is meant to function as a companion to the Division’s The Natural Communities of Virginia, Third Approximation web pages, which provide descriptions and illustrations of all Ecological…
