Republican River Basin

The National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) will be developing a decision-support web portal for the Republican River Basin in Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas, with support from the Sectoral Applications Research Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Dr. Cody Knutson is the principle investigator, with Mark Svoboda and Dr. Jae Ryu of the NDMC serving as co-investigators, along with managers and staff of the Lower, Middle and Upper Republican Natural Resources Districts (NRDs) in Nebraska. Under the terms of the two-year grant, The NDMC will collaborate with the NRDs to identify and compile local drought monitoring and planning information needed by resource managers in the basin, including government agencies, local community planners, and agricultural producers, and package it into a web portal. The portal will eventually be housed on the websites of the natural resource districts, and can serve as a model for developing local applications of the National Integrated Drought Information System.

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