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News Building Sustainable PartnershipsDonna Woudenberg, NDMC post-doc, was instrumental in organizing the second Building Sustainable Partnerships Forum, a joint effort on Oct. 30 by the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), UNL’s Rural Initiative, and the City’s Cleaner Greener Lincoln Initiative. Several other NDMC staff helped facilitate and organize sessions. New NIDIS ContractThe NDMC has signed a three-year contract with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide a variety of assistance to the National Integrated Drought Information System, including input into NIDIS portal development, help desk service, and assisting with regional pilot study activities. The NIDIS portal is on-line at drought.gov. U.S. Drought Monitor Forum Presentations Available |
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Calendar: Travel & Presentations November 5, Nebraska City, NE: Nebraska City stakeholders will attend a workshop at the Lied Lodge and Conference Center to help the NDMC and research partners develop a Drought Ready Communities kit. November 6, Lincoln, NE: Mike Hayes will make a presentation on the NDMC to the Nebraska LEAD (Leadership Education/Action Development) Program. November 10-11, Lincoln, NE: The NDMC will host Julio Betancourt, a senior scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Tucson, AZ. Dr. Betancourt will give an update Nov. 10 on development of the USA-National Phenology Network, and on Nov. 11 will present, “How Do Plants Actually Migrate? Lessons from the Holocene in the American West.” November 9-12, Athens, GA: Mark Svoboda and Cody Knutson will participate in the Ecological Society of America’s Millennium Conference 2009: Water-Ecosystem Services, Drought, and Environmental Justice. They will present a poster on an NDMC/National Weather Service project to develop a low-flow early warning system for U.S. rivers. November 12-13, Washington, D.C.: Mike Hayes and Don Wilhite will meet with representatives of various partner agencies. November 19-20, Lincoln, NE: Brian Wardlow will host Steve Egbert from the University of Kansas and the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program. Egbert will also be the keynote speaker for Geography Week that week. Nov. 23: Wichita, KS: Cody Knutson and Tonya Haigh will present a lecture at the Kansas Association of Conservation Districts annual meeting. The lecture will be about an NDMC project to create a drought planning guide for livestock and forage producers, which is being developed collaboratively with researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, South Dakota State University, and Texas A&M-Kingsville Cooperative Extension Services. December 3, North Platte, NE: VegDRI advisory group meets. December 8-11, Lincoln, NE: The NDMC and the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host a United National Inter-regional Workshop on Indices and Early Warning Systems for Drought. Co-sponsors include the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. December 14-18, San Francisco, CA: Mark Svoboda and Brian Wardlow will attend the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. January 17-21, Atlanta, GA: American Meteorological Society meeting. Publications Drought risk reduction framework and practices: Contributing to the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action, published by the United Nations and the United Nations International Secretariat for Disaster Reduction in 2009, in partnership with the National Drought Mitigation Center. The document is now available on-line. Brian Wardlow, Tsegaye Tadesse, and Sherry harms from the University of Nebraska-Kearney have coauthored a book chapter, "Algorithm and Feature Selection for VegOut: A Vegetation Condition Prediction Tool." in J. Gama et al. (Eds.), Discovery Science: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 107-120. It is available on-line at http://www.springerlink.com/content/3867714j41450155/fulltext.pdf
Recent Conferences and Listening Sessions September 29-30, Lincoln, NE: The NDMC and collaborators gathered with ranchers to fine-tune Reducing Risk on the Ranch: Drought Planning Guide for Livestock Producers, a tool being developed with sponsorship from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency. Workshop page August 10, Kearney, NE: The NDMC, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency, and the Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition teamed up to sponsor a workshop on new drought-related tools. For more information, please visit the workshop page. June 24-25, Helena, MT: The NDMC, the Center for Research on the Changing Earth System, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hosted a listening session in Helena, Montana, to gather input from stakeholders about the need for decadal climate information. This was part of a project sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Sectoral Applications Research Program to better understand the interactions between oceanic parameters and long-term climate fluctuations in the Missouri River Basin, as well as the potential use of that information. May 19, Vail, CO: The NDMC sponsored a day-long workshop on user needs at the National Hydrologic Warning Council. Melissa Widhalm presented information on the Drought Impact Reporter; Brian Wardlow presented information on the Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI), and Mark Svoboda presented information on the U.S. Drought Monitor and related tools. Part of the day focused on the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) portal. April 27-28, Kansas City, MO: The NDMC, the Center for Research on the Changing Earth System, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hosted a listening session in Kansas City, Missouri, to gather input from stakeholders about the need for decadal climate information. February 26, Woodland, CA: The NDMC gave a workshop and presentations on VegDRI and the suite of drought management tools under development with sponsorship from the Risk Management Agency. Agenda & Presentations February 24, Coalinga, CA: The NDMC gave workshop and presentations on VegDRI development with sponsorship from the Risk Management Agency. Agenda & Presentations February 12, Bastrop, TX: The NDMC gave a workshop and presentations on VegDRI and the suite of drought management tools under development with sponsorship from the Risk Management Agency. Agenda & Presentations November 10-13, Walla Walla and Cheney, WA: The NDMC gave workshops and presentations on VegDRI and the suite of drought management tools under development with sponsorship from the Risk Management Agency. Walla Walla Presentations | Cheney Presentations October 20-24, Lincoln, NE: The NDMC is hosting the 33rd Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction and Climate Variability and Prediction workshops of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Agenda & Presentations June 24, 2008, Maui, HI: Hawaiian Drought Workshop presented by NDMC June 17-19, 2008, Kansas City, MO: Workshop on Status of Drought Early Warning Systems in the U.S. presented by NIDIS and NDMC April 24, 2008, San Angelo, TX: Drought Planning Tools Workshop presented by NDMC and Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center at San Angelo March 12, 2008, Fort Peck, MT: Drought Monitoring Tools Listening Session presented by NDMC October 22, 2007, Bismarck, ND: Drought Monitoring Tools Listening Session presented by NDMC October 10-11, 2007, Portland, OR: Drought Monitor Forum presented by NDMC
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