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October 2-5, Boulder, CO: Cody Knutson will lead a session focusing on natural and man-made disasters at the National Ground Water Association's Theis Conference on Ground Water and Climate Change.
October 7-9, Austin, TX: Mark your calendars for the 2009 U.S. Drought Monitor Forum. Register on-line.
October 13-14, Lincoln, NE: The current and founding directors of the NDMC, Mike Hayes and Don Wilhite, will each speak at a workshop for western water and resource managers. The workshop, “Climate, Weather and Water-Related Data and Information Needs and Strategies: The National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) and Climate Services,” is sponsored by the Western Governors’ Association, the Western States Water Council, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Western States Federal Agency Support Team.
October 21-22, Boise, ID: NDMC climatologist Brian Fuchs will give an invited talk on the challenges of drought monitoring in the western United States for the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington.
October 27-29, Overland Park, KS: Cody Knutson will provide an overview of current NDMC research during a presentation at the 2009 Heartland Regional Water Quality Conference sponsored by the Heartland Regional Water Coordination Project.
October 28, Lincoln, NE: The NDMC is hosting Gene Takle, director of the Climate Science Initiative at Iowa State, who will speak on “Midwest Corn Production Under the Influence of Climate Change, Climate Variability, and Wind Turbines.”
October 26-30, Monterey, CA: NDMC scientists will participate in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop.
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 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.
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: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
January 17-21, Atlanta, GA: American Meteorological Society meeting.
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Wardlow Peer Reviews Biofuels Lifecycle Analysis for EPA
NDMC Presents Ranch Planning, VegDRI and VegOut in Kearney, Neb.
Drought Monitor on YouTube – A Meme Whose Time Has Come?
We’ve seen a recent flurry of Drought Monitor maps set to music on YouTube. Robert Osborne, a civil engineer in South Carolina who writes the Watercrunch blog, posted these: Drought Flashback, and 2007 Drought.
Tim Vasquez, a meteorological consultant based in Norman, Okla., is experimenting with uses of Drought Monitor maps. He posted Ten Years of Drought, which, in his own words, “runs through 10 years of data in an entertaining and captivating way.” Note the roving cactus.
U.S. Drought Monitor shapefiles are online in several formats.
Jae H. Ryu, 2009. “The application of HSPF to the Distributed Model Intercomparison Project (DMIP): Case Study,” ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 14(8), 847-857.
Calendar: Travel & Presentations
September 11-18, Bamako, Mali: NDMC scientists Brian Fuchs, Mike Hayes, Mark Svoboda and Brian Wardlow will offer training on drought monitoring for the Mali Meteorological Services, with support from the World Meteorological Organization.
September 29-30, Lincoln, NE: The NDMC will host a workshop to develop a drought planning process for livestock and forage producers with the assistance of agricultural producers and advisors from across the U.S. Great Plains region.
October 2-5, Boulder, CO: Cody Knutson will lead a session focusing on natural and man-made disasters at the National Ground Water Association's Theis Conference on Ground Water and Climate Change.
October 7-9, Austin, TX: Mark your calendars for the 2009 U.S. Drought Monitor Forum. Register on-line.
October 21-22, Boise, ID: NDMC climatologist Brian Fuchs will give an invited talk on the challenges of drought monitoring in the western United States for the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington.
October 27-29, Overland Park, KS: Cody Knutson will provide an overview of current NDMC research during a presentation at the 2009 Heartland Regional Water Quality Conference sponsored by the Heartland Regional Water Coordination Project.
October 26-30, Monterey, CA: NDMC scientists will participate in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop.
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 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.
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: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
January 17-21, Atlanta, GA: American Meteorological Society meeting.
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Calendar: Travel & Presentations
August 10, Kearney, NE: NDMC staff will host a pre-conference workshop to demonstrate and gather feedback on two new tools being developed: 1) a drought planning website for livestock and forage producers, and 2) the Vegetation Drought Response Index that measures vegetation stress due to drought. This workshop is part of the Ninth Annual Nebraska Grazing Conference.
August 11, Lincoln, NE: Cody Knutson, Mark Svoboda, and Tonya Bernadt will demonstrate the newly developed Republican River Water and Drought Web Portal at the annual meeting of the Republican River Basin Compact Administration.
August 12-14, Lincoln, NE: Mirek Trnka, a Czech scientist and frequent collaborator, will be visiting the NDMC.
August 24-27, Washington, D.C.: Cody Knutson will be participating on a panel to review Water Program project proposals for the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
August 25-27, Kansas City, MO: Donna Woudenberg will participate in the Water and Society Integrated Studies Outreach Collaboration Workshop, a project of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
August 26, North Platte, NE: NDMC climatologist Brian Fuchs will make a presentation to Science and Operations Officers and Climate Focal Points for the National Weather Service's Central Region.
August 27-28, North Platte, NE: Brian Fuchs will be the keynote speaker for the 13th Annual AMS/NWA High Plains Chapter meeting. He will give an overview of the NDMC and discuss our ongoing RMA projects.
September 29-30, Lincoln, NE: The NDMC will host a workshop to develop a drought planning process for livestock and forage producers with the assistance of agricultural producers and advisors from across the U.S. Great Plains region.
Mid-September, 2009, Mali: NDMC scientists Brian Fuchs, Mike Hayes, Mark Svoboda and Brian Wardlow will offer training on drought monitoring for the Mali Meteorological Services, with support from the World Meteorological Organization.
October 7-9, Austin, TX: Mark your calendars for the 2009 U.S. Drought Monitor Forum. Register on-line.
October 26-30, Monterey, CA: NDMC scientists will participate in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop.
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 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.
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: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
January 17-21, Atlanta, GA: American Meteorological Society meeting.
Publications & Awards
Cody Knutson was awarded the 2009 Editor's Choice Honorable Mention Award by the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation for his article "The role of water conservation in drought planning." The award was presented at the Soil and Water Conservation Society's annual conference in Dearborn, Michigan, in July.
Citation: The role of water conservation in drought planning Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 6(5):154A-160A.
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Calendar: Travel & Presentations
July 7-10, Grand Rapids, MI: Mark Svoboda and Brian Fuchs will make presentations at the annual meeting of the American Association of State Climatologists.
July 21-22, : Mark Svoboda and Mike Hayes will attend a National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) Southeast regional pilot assessment workshop.
Mid-September, 2009, Mali: NDMC scientists will offer training on drought monitoring for the Mali Meteorological Services, with support from the World Meteorological Organization.
October 7-9, Austin, TX: Mark your calendars for the 2009 U.S. Drought Monitor Forum. Register on-line.
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.
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Calendar: Travel & Presentations
June 1, Nebraska City, NE: Several NDMC staff will meet with city officials in Nebraska City, a pilot community, to begin developing a Drought Ready Communities kit.
June 2, Lincoln, NE: The NDMC will welcome new graduate student Crystal Bergman.
June 8, Lincoln, NE: NDMC staff will sponsor an activity for Big Red Summer Camps, an academic program through UNL Extension 4-H Youth Development.
June 8-11, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel: Cody Knutson will serve as instructor at a training workshop on Water Resources Management. The workshop will bring together participants from Israel, the Palestinian Territories, and Jordan to discuss the potential effects of global change on the region's hydrology. The workshop is sponsored by the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service.
June 9-11, Grand Teton National Park, WY: Mike Hayes and Mark Svoboda will attend the NIDIS workshop, “Climate Change, Drought, and Early Warning on Western Native Lands.” Hayes served on the steering committee.
June 15, Lincoln, NE: Jinsong Wang from the Institute of Arid Meteorology in China will begin six months as a visiting scientist at the NDMC.
June 15-17, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands: Mark Svoboda, NDMC Climatologist, is an invited speaker and participant for the XEROCHORE Workshop on Drought and Natural Systems (Climate and Hydrology).
June 19, Norman, OK: Mike Hayes will participate in a meeting of the Stakeholder Services Committee of the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program.
June 24-25, Helena, MT: The NDMC, the Center for Research on the Changing Earth System, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will host a listening session in Helena, MT, to gather input from stakeholders about the need for decadal climate information. This is 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.
October 7-9, Austin, TX: Mark your calendars for the 2009 U.S. Drought Monitor Forum. Register on-line.
News
U.S. Drought Monitor Publishes Map 500!
The April 7 Drought Monitor map marked No. 500. Read the full story in the Spring 2009 edition of DroughtScape.
Calendar: Travel & Presentations
April 22-26, Atlanta, GA: Nicole Wall of the NDMC made a presentation at the meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, describing how the U.S. Drought Monitor documented that dry weather helped create conditions that made mummification possible in a certain instance in 2003. Climate conditions were a factor in a homicide investigation in southeast Nebraska.
April 22-24, Grand Junction, CO: Donna Woudenberg gave a presentation on the Upper Colorado Basin Low-flow Impacts Database Project to the Upper Colorado River Basin Water Supply/Aspinall Unit Operation Meeting, hosted by the Grand Junction Bureau of Reclamation Office. Other agencies and organizations represented included the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center, National Weather Service; Bureau of Land Management; Trout Unlimited; National Park Service; Energy interests; Colorado River Districts; State of Colorado; National Fish & Wildlife; Colorado Division of Water Resources; Natural Resources Conservation Service; and a number of local river management organizations. This meeting is held by the Bureau on a quarterly basis to give stakeholders an update on snow water equivalent, predicted runoff, and reservoir storage for planning purposes. Stakeholders are given the floor for comment on flow needs and/or requests. The Bureau then takes all comments and requests into consideration as it plans storage and releases for the coming quarter.
April 27-29, Athens, GA: Donna Woudenberg attended the “Georgia Water Resources Conference” at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education on the University of Georgia campus. She.made a presentation on the Alabama, Coosa, and Tallapoosa (ACT) River Basins, and the Appalachicola, Chattahoochie, and Flint (ACF) River Basins Low-flow Impacts Database Project. The conference was sponsored and organized by the U.S. Geological Survey, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Georgia. This is an annual conference attended by federal, state and local water researchers, managers, planners and decision-makers, representing government, academia, and NGOs.
May 7-8, Sioux Falls, SD: A group from the NDMC will meet with our partners at the Center for Earth Research Observation and Science, a data management, systems development, and research field center for the U.S. Geological Survey, to discuss future collaboration. Those traveling will include Brian Wardlow, Tsegaye Tadesse, Mark Svoboda, Mike Hayes, and Chris Poulsen.
May 12, Grand Island, NE: NDMC staff will present Weather to Water and Water Banking at the annual Children’s Groundwater Festival. The crew will include Mark Mesarch, Brian Fuchs, Melissa Widhalm, Deb Wood, and Donna Woudenberg.
May 12, Lincoln, NE: Representatives of the Spanish Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs will be visiting the National Drought Mitigation Center and the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to discuss future collaboration. Members of the delegation will include Ms. Marta Moren, General Director for Water, Mr. Luis Babiano, Assistant Director for Water, and Dr. Miguel Antolín, Head of International Affairs.
May 16-26, Lincoln, NE: NDMC representatives will meet with a delegation of Vietnamese scientists interested in agricultural meteorology during their extended visit to the School of Natural Resources. Members of the delegation include Ngo Sy Giai, Deputy Director of the Center for Agricultural Meteorology; Nguyen Van Liem, Deputy Director of the Center for Agricultural Meteorology; Nguyen Dinh Luong, Deputy Director of the Center for Hydro-Meteorological and Environmental Station Network; Duong Van Kham, Chief of the Remote Sensing and GIS Division; and Ngo Tien Giang, Chief of the Agro-Meteorology and Agro-Cimatology Division.
May 19, Vail, CO: The NDMC is sponsoring a day-long workshop on user needs at the National Hydrologic Warning Council. Melissa Widhalm will present information on the Drought Impact Reporter; Brian Wardlow will present information on the Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI), and Mark Svoboda will present information on the U.S. Drought Monitor and related tools. Part of the day will focus on the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) portal.
May 21, Lincoln, NE: Melissa Widhalm and Deb Wood will lead a Drought Trivia game at Maxey Elementary School’s Nature Night.
May 21, Ames, IA: Cody Knutson will attend a social science round table, sponsored by the Heartland Regional Water Coordination Initiative human dimensions working group, to share research that examines community/citizen capacities to solve/mediate water issues. The goal of the round table is to explore ways to increase collaborative research on citizen participation and community involvement in water issues and build on the emerging social science knowledge related to this area.
May 27, Oberlin, KS: The NDMC and the Republican River Riparian Research Partnership will co-sponsor a workshop to showcase recent environmental research in the Republican River Basin, and gather public feedback on a new educational and planning tool being developed by the NDMC and the Upper, Middle, and Lower Republican natural resource districts in Nebraska. The tool is the Republican River Basin Water and Drought Portal.
May 27-28, La Serena, Chile: Mark Svoboda will participate in the International Seminar on Drought and Climate Risk Management.
June 19, Norman, OK: Mike Hayes will participate in a meeting of the Stakeholder Services Committee of the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program.
June 24-25, Helena, MT: The NDMC, the Center for Research on the Changing Earth System, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will host a listening session in Helena, MT, to gather input from stakeholders about the need for decadal climate information. This is 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.
News
Publications
“Sharpening the Focus on Drought – New Monitoring and Assessment Tools at the National Drought Mitigation Center,” Earthzine, March 30, 2009, by Brian D. Wardlow, Michael J. Hayes, Mark D. Svoboda, Tsegaye Tadesse, and Kelly H. Smith.
Jae H. Ryu, Richard N. Palmer, Sangman Jeong, Jooheon Lee, Young-Oh Kim, 2009. “Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Conflict Resolution Framework,” Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 45(2), 485-499.
Calendar: Travel & Presentations
April 30, Lincoln, NE: Mike Hayes, director of the NDMC, will present “Sunny and Warm: Does Climate Change Mean More Droughts in the Future?” at the 2009 Water Law, Policy and Science Conference organized by UNL’s Water Center.
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 will host a listening session in Kansas City, MO, to gather input from stakeholders about the need for decadal climate information. This is 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 21, Ames, IA: Cody Knutson will attend a social science round table, sponsored by the Heartland Regional Water Coordination Initiative human dimensions working group, to share research that examines community/citizen capacities to solve/mediate water issues. The goal of the round table is to explore ways to increase collaborative research on citizen participation and community involvement in water issues and build on the emerging social science knowledge related to this area.
May 27, Oberlin, KS: The NDMC and the Republican River Riparian Research Partnership will co-sponsor a workshop to showcase recent environmental research in the Republican River Basin, and gather public feedback on a new educational and planning tool being developed by the NDMC and the Upper, Middle, and Lower Republican natural resource districts in Nebraska. The tool is the Republican River Basin Water and Drought Portal.
June 24-25, Helena, MT: The NDMC, the Center for Research on the Changing Earth System, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will host a listening session in Helena, MT, to gather input from stakeholders about the need for decadal climate information. This is 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.
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NDMC Workshops Reach Drought-Affected Areas
The NDMC’s workshops in Bastrop, TX, February 12, and in Coalinga and Woodland, CA, February 24 and 26, both coincided with particularly high levels of drought awareness. The presentations are now on-line. The Texas workshop attracted attention from Austin TV station KXAN. Bastrop County officials on February 17 requested state assistance in dealing with the drought, and on March 1 were contending with wildfire. Media attention in California was focused on the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Feb. 20 announcement that water deliveries for the Federal Central Valley Project would be severely curtailed due to drought, on Gov. Schwarzenegger’s February 27 declaration of a drought emergency, and on the federal response to the emergency in California, announced February 26.
Publications
The NDMC’s founding director, Dr. Donald A. Wilhite, who is now director of the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is co-editor of Coping with Drought Risk in Agriculture and Water Supply Systems: Drought Management and Policy Development in the Mediterranean, published by Springer Netherlands in 2009.
Calendar: Travel & Presentations
March 3, Lincoln, NE: Nicole Wall, NDMC Public Participation Specialist and forensic scientist, will present the Applied Climate Sciences seminar at the School of Natural Resources, on “Determining Homicide Location/Stage of Death through the application of palynology and climate.”
March 5, McCook, NE: Cody Knutson will speak at the Southwest Nebraska Water Conference in McCook. His presentation will describe a real-time ground water level monitoring network being developed across Nebraska by researchers from the NDMC, the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), and the UNL Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
March 5-6, Mexico City, Mexico: Mark Svoboda, NDMC Climatologist, will attend and speak at the International Workshop on Climate-Related Water Constraints and Their Implications for Relations Across North American Boundaries.
March 17-18, Sacramento, CA: Mark Svoboda, NDMC Climatologist, will talk about the process behind the U.S. Drought Monitor, at the California/Nevada National Weather Service's Service Hydrologist/Hydro Focal Point Workshop to be held at the California/Nevada River Forecast Center (CNRFC).
March 22-27, Las Vegas, NV: The NDMC will be represented on a variety of fronts at the American Association of Geographers’ 2009 annual meeting. Melissa Widhalm, NDMC Climatologist, will present the Drought Impact Reporter and be a panelist discussing drought impacts. Brian Wardlow will present a paper, “A Hybrid-Based Remote Sensing Approach for Predicting Vegetation Conditions – Results for the Central U.S.” Cody Knutson will co-chair and present a lecture during a session on "Reducing the Threat of Drought," describing a water and drought information website about the Republican River Basin of Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas, which is being developed by the NDMC and three Nebraska Natural Resource Districts.
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 will host a listening session in Kansas City, MO, to gather input from stakeholders about the need for decadal climate information. This is 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.
June 24-25, Helena, MT: The NDMC, the Center for Research on the Changing Earth System, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will host a listening session in Helena, MT, to gather input from stakeholders about the need for decadal climate information. This is 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.
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Calendar: Travel & Presentations
February 6, Lincoln, NE: Building Sustainable Partnerships, 1-6 p.m., is a workshop organized by the NDMC’s Donna Woudenberg to promote networking between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the city of Lincoln, and other organizations. It is free and open to the public.
February 8-12, St. Louis, MO: Cody Knutson will represent the NDMC at the National Water Conference of the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service.
February 12, Bastrop, TX: Drought tools workshop, hosted by the Lower Colorado River Authority and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency. The workshops will be of interest to farmers and ranchers, people whose livelihoods depend on tourism and recreation, water suppliers, environmental organizations, natural resources managers, graduate students and state and local officials with responsibility for building resilience to drought through monitoring and planning. All are welcome, but sign up soon because space is limited. For more information, please contact Nicole Wall (402-472-6776, or nwall2@unl.edu). Agenda
February 23, Lincoln, NE: Melissa Widhalm will be on a Women In Science panel to help high school students understand career options.
February 24, Coalinga, CA: VegDRI Listening Session at Harris Ranch. Flyer & Agenda
February 26, Woodland, CA: NDMC-RMA Drought Tools Workshop, Heidrick Ag History Center. The workshops will be of interest to farmers and ranchers, people whose livelihoods depend on tourism and recreation, water suppliers, environmental organizations, natural resources managers, graduate students and state and local officials with responsibility for building resilience to drought through monitoring and planning. All are welcome, but sign up soon because space is limited. For more information, please contact Nicole Wall (402-472-6776, or nwall2@unl.edu).
Directions to Heidrick Ag History Center
Flyer & Agenda (PDF | WORD 2003)
March 5-6, Mexico City, Mexico: Mark Svoboda, NDMC Climatologist, will attend and speak at the International Workshop on Climate-Related Water Constraints and Their Implications for Relations Across North American Boundaries.
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Drought Tools Workshops Scheduled for Early 2009
The NDMC will conduct a workshop in Bastrop, Texas, February 12, focusing on the drought management tools we are developing. The Lower Colorado River Authority will be hosting the workshop, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency is sponsoring development of the tools. Flyer & On-line Registration -
Other Workshops
We are scheduling workshops for the week of February 22 in California. Please contact Nicole Wall (402-472-6776, or nwall2@unl.edu) for more information. -
Washington Workshops
Presentations from recent workshops in Washington State are on-line. Walla Walla & Cheney
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DroughtScape Winter 2009
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Calendar: Presentations & Conferences January 6, Lincoln, NE: The NDMC and partners from the Oklahoma Climatological Survey and the Illinois State Water Survey and State Climatologist’s Office will meet to kick off work on the Drought Ready Communities Project. The project is sponsored by the Sectoral Applications Research Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. January 20-22, 2009, Winnipeg, Canada: Donna Woudenberg will talk about drought, the NDMC and the Red River of the North Low-flow Impacts Database Project at the Red River Basin Commission's Annual Meeting. January 30, Lincoln, NE: NDMC staff retreat, focusing on short- and long-term planning. February 8-12, St. Louis, MO: Cody Knutson will represent the NDMC at the National Water Conference of the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service. February 12, Bastrop, TX: Drought tools workshop, hosted by the Lower Colorado River Authority and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency. For more information, please contact Nicole Wall (402-472-6776, or nwall2@unl.edu). On-line Registration
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