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National Drought Mitigation Center Mission: To lessen societal vulnerability to drought by promoting planning and the adoption of appropriate risk management techniques.
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National Drought Mitigation Center:Our drought products and services…“rock”!
Michael HayesNational Drought Mitigation CenterSchool of Natural ResourcesUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln
National Drought Mitigation Center
Mission: To lessen societal vulnerability to drought by promoting planning and the adoption of appropriate risk management techniques.
1995Founder: Don WilhiteProgram Areas: Monitoring, Planning and Social Science, GIScienceStaff: 16 people, tremendous diversityOperational tools, research, outreach, training• “Research to Operations to Applications to
Education” Continuum
National Drought Mitigation Center
National Drought Mitigation Center
Drought Impact Reporter
Agricultural Drought Planning Guide
International Drought Planning Guides
National Integrated Drought Information SystemPublic Law 109-430 (The NIDIS Act 2006)
“Enable the Nation to move from a reactive to a more proactive approach to managing drought risks and impacts”
“better informed and more timely drought-related decisions leading to reduced impacts and costs”
www.drought.govwww.drought.gov
Drought and Food Security
FAO 2009
Transforming Climate Variability and Change Informationfor Cereal Crop Producers in the Midwest
Linda Prokopy, PhDLinda Prokopy, PhDPurdue UniversityPurdue University
State climatologistsCrop modelersAgronomistsEconomistsSocial scientistsRCC staffNOAA staff
