The Engaging Preparedness Communities Working Group of the National Integrated Drought Information System organized a workshop, June 8-9, 2011, in Chicago, that brought drought planners and community planners together.
Audio recordings and presentations from the workshop are below.
Day 1: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Small group discussions were part of the NIDIS Engaging Preparedness Communities workshop in June 2011.
Session Chair: Mark Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center
Local Host Welcome
Jim Schwab, American Planning Association
Workshop Welcome and Goals
Mark Svoboda
NIDIS Overview and Update
Roger Pulwarty, NOAA, NIDIS Program Office
NIDIS Engaging Preparedness Communities Overview
Deborah Bathke, National Drought Mitigation Center
Framing the Agenda
Deborah Bathke
Integrating Planning Efforts
Audio recording
Session Chair: Lisa Darby, NOAA, NIDIS Program Office
Introduction and Session Goals
Lisa Darby
Regional Drought Early Warning Systems Pilot Overview
Lisa Darby
Taryn Hutchins-Cabibi, Colorado Water Conservation Board, participates in an exercise on identifying cultural capital.
Colorado State Plan Overview, Update, and Lessons Learned
Veva Deheza and Taryn Hutchins-Cabibi, Colorado Water Conservation Board
Community Level Planning: Lessons Learned
Jeff Brislawn and Courtney Peppler, AMEC
Integrating Driought Planning into Multi-Hazard Planning
Jim Schwab
Audio recording
Planning Under Uncertainty
Audio recording
Session Chair: Missy Stults, ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability)
Introduction and Session Goals
Missy Stults
Case Study of Current Efforts with Climate Change
Missy Stults
Climate Change in Planning Example
Lee Tryhorn, Cornell University
Climate Change in Planning Example
Beau Mitchell, Sustainable Development Institute, College of Menominee Nation
Moving from Agenda to Action: Evaluating Local Climate Change
Zhenghong Tang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Chicago Climate Action Plan Adaptation Efforts
Olivia Cohn, City of Chicago, Department of Environment
Day 2: Evaluating, Updating and Assessing Drought Plans
Audio recording
Chair: Mike Hayes, National Drought Mitigation Center
Joe Hoffman, Interstate Commission of the Potomac River Basin, Mike Brewer, NOAA, National Climatic Data Center, and Mario Chapa, Texas Division of Emergency Management, discuss drought planning.
Mike Hayes
Basin-Level Practice Drought Exercise
Joe Hoffman, Interstate Commission of the Potomac River Basin
Texas: Updating and Evaluating the Texas Drought Plan
Mario Chapa, Texas Division of Emergency management
Drought Ready Communities
Mark Svoboda and Kelly Helm Smith, National Drought Mitigation Center
Invitational Drought Tournament (Canada)
Harvey Hill, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Communication
Chair: Doug Kluck, NOAA
Introduction and Session Goals
Doug Kluck
Engaging Stakeholders
John Feldt, NOAA
Audio recording
Using the Drought Portal for Communication
Mike Brewer, NOAA, NCDC
Audio recording
Interactive Activity and Discussion on Maintaining Communication
Deborah Bathke
Resource-Based Risk Management
Audio recording
Chair: Mark Shafer, Southern Climate Impacts Program
Introduction and Session Goals
Mark Shafer
SCIPP Update and Lessons Learned
Mark Shafer
Community Capitals Framework: Expanding the Idea of Capital
Mary Emery, South Dakota State University
Conclusions and Next Steps
Audio recording
Deborah Bathke and Lisa Darby
For more information, please contact Deborah Bathke, dbathke2@unl.edu, 402-472-6199.