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For more information about the project, please contact Dr. Tsegaye Tadesse, ttadesse2@unl.edu, 402-472-3383

For more information about the outreach materials related to this project, please contact Ms. Nicole Wall, nwall2@unl.edu, 402-472-6776.

• Purpose of the Meeting & General Progress Report on NASA GHA Project
  Dr. Tsegaye Tadesse, Project Lead, National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
• Models and Farmers: Making Scientific Research Relevant to End Users
  Dr. Shimelis Beyene, AAU & DB-PHC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Participatory Research Group Discussion: Creating Groups, Parallel Group Discussion, and Pre-participation survey
  Tonya Haigh and Nicole Wall, National Drought Mitigation Center
• Role of regional centers for climate information and users’ needs: RCMRD/NASA SERVIR experience
  Mr. Degelo Sendabo, Remote Sensing Officer, Remote Sensing and GIS, Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya
• An overview of implications of climate change to drought in the Horn of Africa
  Mr. Abebe Tadege, Climate Change Adaptation Specialist at ICPAC, Nairobi, Kenya
• Mainstreaming Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) into National Policies and Programs
  Dr. Fantahun Assefa, Field Program Support and Monitoring Officer, FAO Sub-regional Office for Eastern Africa (SFE)
• Enhancing National Climate Services for Development in Africa
  Dr. Tufa Dinku et al., International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Columbia University (CU), USA
• Current methods and products of seasonal prediction in Kenya
  Peter Ambenje, Deputy Director at Kenya Meteorological Department, Nairobi, Kenya, Khartoum, Sudan
• Extreme Hydro-Climatic Events Assessment and Monitoring in Sudan
  Amel Mohamed Abdalla, Head Agromet Unit, Sudan Meteorological Authority
• The needs and challenges of climate information in Rwanda
  Mr. Kwitonda Philippe, Kigali, Rwanda
• Tanzania experience on the use of Climate information/ seasonal prediction
  Dr. Sarah Osima, Head of Environment Section, Tanzania Meteorological Agency
• Progress report on opportunities and challenges for seasonal prediction in the GHA
  Dr. Ben Zaitchik, John Hopkins University (JHU), USA
• Regionalization and Prediction of Seasonal Precipitation in Ethiopia
  Dr. Paul Block and Ying Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
• Experimental Vegetation Outlook model for GHA
  Dr. Tsegaye Tadesse, NDMC/UNL, USA
• Drought monitoring and impact assessment using satellite-derived evapotranspiration datasets
  Dr. Gabriel Senay, U.S. Geological Survey, USA
• Preliminary analysis on modeling current corn yields in Ethiopia
  Dr. Gui Baigorria, A/Professor, SNR/UNL, USA
• Evaluation of CHIRPS
  Dr. Tufa Dinku, IRI/CU, USA
• LIS-HyMAP coupled Flood Modeling and Mapping in the Greater Horn of Africa
  Dr. Hahn C. Jung, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), USA (recorded presentation)
• Forecasting seasonal agricultural droughts in East Africa
  Dr. Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (recorded presentation)
• Agricultural research and the use of seasonal climate information in Ethiopia, Jemal Seid
  Director, Biometrics, GIS and Agrometeorology Research, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Integrated Agricultural Production and Food Security Forecasting System for East Africa
  Dr. Kindie Tesfaye, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Climate Change Adaptation, Plans, & Activities in Somalia
  Mr. Noor M. Abanoor, Mogadishu, Somalia
• Agro-weather tools for climate smart agriculture: EIAR-World Bank Pilot Experience in Ethiopia
  Dr. Girma Mamo, Climate and Geo-spatial Research Directorate, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia