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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

Michael HayesNational Drought Mitigation Center

mhayes2@unl.eduhttp://drought.unl.edu