Hi, I'm Don Wilhite, professor emeritus of Applied Climate Science and director emeritus of the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). I am the founding director of the International Drought Information Center in 1988 and the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) in 1995. I served as director of the NDMC from 1995 until 2007, when I accepted the position of director of the School of Natural Resources. On August 1, 2012, I stepped down from the SNR director's position to rejoin the faculty. My principal research, outreach and teaching areas of interest are drought monitoring, preparedness, mitigation and policy; climate change; and climate impact assessment. I retired from UNL in 2016.