Drought Monitoring Workshop & Listening Sessions

Cheney, Washington
November 12, 2008

Full Agenda

Presentations:

• Workshop Overview (Powerpoint: 5.5Mb)
• NWS Drought Update & Climate Services (Powerpoint: 3.2 Mb)
• Drought Impact Reporter (Powerpoint: 3.3 Mb)
• Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI)
  • Main presentation (Powerpoint: 14.6 Mb)
  • 2007 Animation (Powerpoint: 11.3 Mb)
  • 2008 Animation (Powerpoint: 14.4 Mb)
• Vegetation Outlook (VegOut) (Powerpoint: 28.9 Mb)
• Irrigation Scheduling Application (Powerpoint: 11.2 Mb)
• State Revolving Funds (Powerpoint: 36.0 Mb)

User feedback, collected via listening sessions, email, conversations, and any other means feasible, are an integral part of fine tuning our drought monitoring tools to be accurate and as useful as possible. These tools are being developed with sponsorship from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency, in partnership with the Computer Science & Engineering Department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Additional Sponsors wereNational Weather Service in Spokane, Royce Fontenot and RMA, Dave Paul, also presenting were Rich Baden of the Spokane Conservation Commission District and Charles Hillyer of Oregon State University)

Upcoming:
Bastrop, TX on February 12, 2009

If you’re interested in helping us fine-tune or ground truth products to make them as accurate and useful as possible, you can:

• Come to one of our listening sessions or workshops.
• Access recent presentations on-line, and send any comments to the contact people listed within them, or to droughtscape@unl.edu
• Contact Nicole Wall, NDMC Publci Participation Specialist (402-472-6776, nwall2@unl.edu and let us know more about your interest.
• Subscribe to DroughtScape if you haven’t already!