Drought Resources

Linda FischerRegional Extension Education Director

Drought

• Meteorological – precipitation below normal values

• Agricultural- inadequate soil moisture for crops or livestock

• Hydrological – surface & subsurface water significantly below normal

• Socioeconomic – physical water shortage begins to effect daily life

National Drought Mitigation Center, http://drought.unl.edu

Drought Resources

Drought Resources

http://eden.lsu.edu

• A collaborative multi-state effort by the land-grant universities’ Cooperative Extension Services and the National Sea Grant College Program.– Nearly 300 members– Representing 50 states and 3 U.S. territories

And…

Alaska

Hawaii

Puerto Rico

Guam

Virgin Islands

What is EDEN?

Fourteen

specialists representing

their universities

NEIL Drought Team

Drought NEIL Chair: Kim Cassel SDSU 605-696-7873

kim.cassel@sdstate.edu

NEIL Drought Team interdisciplinary team of Extension

Specialists and Extension Educators working together to develop sustainable EDEN and EDEN eXtension research based drought resources.

Member of National VOAD & Wildfire Task Force

eXtension Drought Resources

• Link from EDEN home page to eXtension• Sharing of Drought resource publications• Links to other organizations involved with

drought disaster

Drought Preparedness

• Continued Drought will impact beyond Agriculture

• Drought Capacity Building for Communities – A multi-agency, multi-organization effort to

guide communities to tackle tough drought issues.

– Involves a local leadership team

Drought Preparedness• Drought Community Capacity Building

– Each community assess it’s ability to respond & recover from long term drought

– Provide community with information about drought recovery, mitigation and prevention, the planning process

– Communities know best how to help themselves

– Assess Community Vulnerabilities & Assets

Drought Resources

• ISU Extension & Outreach website: www.extension.iastate.edu

• EDEN Drought Page http://eden.lsu.edu/Topics/Hazards/Drought

• National Drought Mitigation Center: http://drought.unl.edu/Home.aspx