• Mark Svoboda, Brian Fuchs and Brian Wardlow participated in the North American Drought Monitor Forum, April 18-20 in Cancun, Mexico.
• Mike Hayes helped organize the Global Drought Information System Workshop in Frascati, Italy, April 11-13. Don Wilhite, founding director of the NDMC, gave a keynote presentation. Mark Svoboda and Brian Fuchs both presented posters.
• Mark Svoboda is an invited External Advisory Board member for the European Union's project "Fostering European Drought Research and Science-Policy Interfacing (Drought R&SPI),” which met March 27-30 in Valencia, Spain.
• Lin Zhao, a visiting scholar from the Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management at Beijing Normal University, found that streamflow drought lagged meteorological drought by about 112 days in the Jinghe River Basin.meteorological drought by about 112 days in the Jinghe River Basin.
• Getachew Berhan Demisse, a visiting scholar at the NDMC from August 2011 through February 2012, returned to Ethiopia to demonstrate his method for predicting drought up to four months ahead.
• In August 2011 Meixiu Yu began a year as a visiting scientist at the NDMC. She is working on a Ph.D. in Hydrology and Water Resources at Hohai University in China, and is particularly interested in drought monitoring and indices.
• The World Meteorological Organization published Towards A Compendium on National Drought Policy, co-edited by Donald A. Wilhite, founding director of the National Drought Mitigation Center. The volume is the proceedings of an expert meeting that was July 14-15, 2011, in Washington, D.C.
• The Canadian Invitational Drought Tournament in February 2011 introduced a competitive element to traditional scenario planning.
• NDMC representatives traveled to Argentina in October 2010 for the Argentine Congress of Animal Production and to advise the Patagonian region on setting up an agricultural drought monitoring system.
• NDMC climatologist Tsegaye Tadesse is part of an interdisciplinary team that includes social and biological scientists working with communities in Ethiopia on food security.

NDMC International Activities Through 2010

NDMC Near East Activities, 2006-2011