Mike Hayes, Director, National Drought Mitigation Center

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Mike Strobel, Director USDA-NRCS/National Water & Climate Center

Keynote: “USDA-Farm Services Agency’s Use of the Drought Monitor”
(John Johnson, Deputy Administrator for Farm Programs, USDA-FSA)

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History and Future in the Making of the Drought Monitor (Mark Svoboda, NDMC)

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USDA Drought Assessment and Activities (Brad Rippey, USDA-WAOB-JAWF)

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Drought Activities at the NOAA/NCDC Climate Monitoring Branch
(Richard Heim, NOAA-NCDC)

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Drought Activities/Initiatives
(Mike Brewer, NOAA-NWS-CSD)

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New NDMC Tool Development Update: Working to meet the needs of Drought Monitor, RMA, and NIDIS end users (Meghan Sittler, Brian Fuchs, and Brian Wardlow, NDMC)

[Sittler PPT (6.9 Mb) | Fuchs - PPT-Atlas (10 Mb) | Fuchs - PPT-Monitor (5 Mb) | Wardlow - PPT-VegDRI (7.8 Mb) | Wardlow - PPT-Animation (171 Mb)]

SCAN (Soil Climate Analysis Network) Update
(Garry Schaefer, USDA-NRCS-NWCC)

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Drought Activities at the High Plains Regional Climate Center
(Christy Carlson, HPRCC)

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Drought through a PRISM (Chris Daly, PRISM Group, Oregon State University)

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Application of LDAS-era Land Surface Models to Drought Monitoring and
Prediction (Andy Wood, University of Washington)

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Application of NLDAS Ensemble Simulations to Continental-Scale Drought Monitoring (Brian Cosgrove, Goddard Space Flight Center)

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State drought activities, initiatives, views, and needs:

• George Taylor, State Climatologist, Oregon [PPT (5.5 Mb)]
• Phil Mote, State Climatologist, Washington [PPT (8 Mb)]
• Michael Anderson, State Climatologist, California [PPT (11 Mb)]
• Luigi Romolo, Climatologist, Southern Regional Climate Center, LSU [PPT (2.7 Mb)]

Keynote: “Laying out Drought Activities within NOAA”
(Vice Admiral Conrad Lautenbacher, NOAA Administrator/Undersecretary
of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere)

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NIDIS Implementation (Tim Owen, NOAA-NCDC)

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NIDIS Portal Development (Mark Svoboda, NDMC)

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CPC Drought Forecasting and needs of NIDIS (Douglas LeComte, NOAA-CPC)

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Keynote: “Understanding What Drought and Climate Variability Means to
Viticulture” (Greg Jones, Southern Oregon University)

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NWS Western Water Supply Services (Kevin Werner, NWS-WRH)

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NRCS Daily Water Supply Guidance Forecasts and GIS Tools
(Tom Pagano, USDA-NRCS-WCC)

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Update on NWS gridded Hybrid Precipitation Analysis Tool
(Victor Murphy, NWS-SRH)

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NWS Drought Information Statement Directive (Doug Kluck, NWS-CRH)

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PANEL DISCUSSION: Drought Juxtaposition: A disconnect between
drought and impacts; just what is drought in the West? Needs of the DM
(Kelly Redmond, WRCC; Brian Fuchs, NDMC; Andrea Bair, NWS-WRH;
Mark Shafer, OCS)

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Drought Activities at the Midwest Regional Climate Center
(Mike Palecki, MRCC)

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Western Regional Climate Center Drought Activities
(Kelly Redmond, WRCC)

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What is AgACIS? (Jim Marron, USDA-NRCS-NWCC)

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Idaho’s Complex Water Issues in the Eastern Snake River Aquifer
(Ron Abramovich, USDA/NRCS-ID)

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La Niña is back: Drought Prospects in the Western U.S., and the Utility of Improved Climate Divisions (Klaus Wolter, ESRL-PSD)

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Remote Sensing in Drought Monitoring: Myths and Realities
(Jess Brown, SAIC/USGS Center for EROS)

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Local Area Drought Impact Groups (Michael Crimmins, University of Arizona)

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