April 9-11, 2012, Auburn, Alabama: Tonya Haigh, a Research Specialist on the “Usable to Useful: Transforming Climate Variability and Change Information for Cereal Crop Producers” (U2U) project, will attend the Southeast Climate Consortium Annual Review Meeting.
April 10-12, 2012, Boulder, Colorado: Cody Knutson will attend the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy Meeting.
April 11-13, 2012, Frascati, Italy: Mike Hayes, Mark Svoboda and Brian Fuchs will be presenters and will participate as experts at the World Climate Research Program's (WCRP) Drought Interest Group's Workshop on Global Drought Information Systems at the European Space Agency. Mike Hayes is also an organizer.
April 18-20, 2012, Cancun, Mexico: Mark Svoboda, Brian Fuchs, and Brian Wardlow will attend the North American Drought Monitor Forum.
May 8, 2012, Grand Island, Nebraska: NDMC staff will present a water banking hands-on activity for fourth and fifth graders at the annual Children's Groundwater Festival.
May 14-15, Mikulov, Czech Republic: Mike Hayes is on the Scientific Advisory Board for a large climate change-related project taking place in the Czech Republic called CzechGlobe, and will attend the first meeting of the Advisory Board.
Week of May 21, Jamaica: Mark Svoboda will help conduct a drought monitoring, early warning and information system training workshop for the Caribbean.
June 1-9, Beijing, China: Mike Hayes, Mark Svoboda and Don Wilhite will participate in “Drought Monitoring, Assessing and Planning under Global Climate Change,” a workshop at Beijing Normal University. They will also visit the Department of Water Hazard Research at the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, the Beijing Climate Centre at the Chinese Meteorological Academy, the Center for Rural Environmental Social Studies, and the Institute of Sociology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Sept. 11-13, Busan, South Korea: Mark Svoboda is on the organizing committee for the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Climate Center’s International Conference on Climate, Water and Policy (ICCWP) 2012.