Photography provided by Jared Chambers

Cascadia Paleo uses a wide variety of analytical and statistical methods to interpret past records of earthquakes, climate and weather events to help us prepare for these events in the future.

Cascadia Paleo is transitioning into a nonprofit organization through which we hope to develop a loosely associated group of scientists, students, citizen scientists and organizations interested in understanding and preparing for the hazards - related to both earthquakes and climate - we face in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. In addition, we plan to develop social justice programs associated with these efforts in communities that are interested in participating.


“I feel that there is a lack of seriousness. Perhaps world leaders do not realize the urgency of the situation. We have a lot of ideas, but as someone said, ‘ideas without funding is mere hallucination.’”
Imran Khan, prime minister of Pakistan

Our Mission

Our goal is to empower people and increase trust in science and scientists through inclusive scientific engagement. We are concerned about how we are impacting the earth and how we treat each other, and as a result we can no longer watch from the sidelines as lack of concern for our planet and corruption become accepted and divide us.

Can we find common ground, and possibly world Peace, through cooperative learning about and preparing for the risks we face as a people?