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June 8-9, 2011
Chicago, IL

The Engaging Preparedness Communities Working Group of the National Integrated Drought Information System organized a workshop, June 8-9, 2011, in Chicago, that brought drought planners and community planners together.

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For more information, please contact Deborah Bathke, dbathke2@unl.edu, 402-472-6199.

• Updating and Evaluating the Texas Drought Plan
  Mario Chapa, Texas Drought Preparedness Council
• Engaging Stakeholders
  John Feldt, Southeast River Forecast Center
• The Invitational Drought Tournament, Progress So Far, and Can it Be Useful to the NIDIS Community?
  Harvey Hill, Agriculture and Agro-Food Canada
• Basin Level Drought Exercise
  Joe Hoffman, Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin
• Drought Ready Communities
  Kelly Helm Smith, National Drought Mitigation Center
• Next Steps
  Lisa Darby and Deb Bathke
• Three Ways to Encourage Successful Engagement and Implementation
  Mary Emery, South Dakota State University
• SCIPP Update and Lessons Learned
  Mark Shafer, Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program
• NIDIS Engaging Preparedness Communities Working Group
  Deb Bathke, National Drought Mitigation Center
• Community Level Planning: Lessons Learned
  Jeff Brislawn and Courtney Peppler, AMEC
• Synthesizing Diverse Stakeholder Needs for a Drought Early Warning Information System in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin
  Lisa Darby, NIDIS
• 2010 Colorado Drought Mitigation and Response Plan
  Taryn Hutchins-Cabibi, Colorado Water Conservation Board
• Integrating Drought Planning into Multi-Hazard Planning
  Jim Schwab, APA
• Building a Sustainable Network of Drought Communities
  Mark Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center
• Climate Adaptation Overview
  Olivia Cohn, City of Chicago
• Climate Change in Planning Example
  Beau Mitchell, Sustainable Development Institute, College of Menominee Nation
• Planning Under Uncertainty
  Missy Stults, ICLEI
• Moving from Agenda to Action: Evaluating Local Climate Change Action Plans Does Drought Matter?
  Zhenghong Tang, Univerity of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Climate Change in Planning: An example from New York State
  Lee Tryhorn, Northeast Regional Climate Center

• Wednesday Morning - Session 2
  Lisa Darby, Taryn Finnessey, Jeff Brislawn and Courtney Black
• Wednesday Morning - Session 3
  Jim Schwab
• Wednesday Afternoon - Session 1
  Missy Stults, Lee Tryhorn, Beau Mitchell, Zhenghong Tang and Olivia Cohn
• Thursday Morning - Session 1
  Joe Hoffman, Mario Chapa, Kelly Smith and Harvey Hill
• Thursday Morning - Session 2
  John Feldt
• Thursday Morning - Session 3
  Deborah Bathke and Mike Brewer
• Thursday Afternoon - Session 1
  Mark Shafer and Mary Emery
• Thursday Afternoon - Session 2
  Deborah Bathke and Lisa Darby