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Presentations:
NASA Global Drought Monitoring Workshop April 2011
Workshop held in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, April 11 - 12, 2011 Sponsored by: NASA Applied Sciences
Workshop Schedule
Presentations 11 April 2011
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Session 1: Introduction and Background
- Overview of the objectives of the workshop and introduction to the
NASA Water Resources program
Bradley Doorn, NASA HQ - Introduction to the NASA Water Science program
Jared Entin, NASA HQ - Invited Keynote:
Global Drought Monitoring: Lessons from NIDIS and the Drought Monitor Process
Kelly Redmond, Desert Research Institute (DRI) (76 slides) - The development of the Global Drought Monitor Portal and Summaries of the
April 2010 Global Drought Assessment and associated workshops
Richard Heim, NOAA - NDMC and USDM Activities
Mike Hayes, U. Nebraska, NDMC - NASA contributions to global drought monitoring
Dave Toll, NASA Water Resources - USAID's international water and drought related activities
A. Sezin Tokar, USAID - Global Operational Systems that Monitor Drought Impacts on Global Crop Production
Curt Reynolds, USDA - GEOSS Agriculture activities and drought
Chris Justice, U. Maryland - Meeting regional needs for drought information through SERVIR
Ashutosh Limaye, NASA - Drought, food security and FEWSNET
Jim Verdin, USGS - Monitoring Many Faces of Drought over the United States
Kingste Mo, NOAA - Issues in drought monitoring: Canadian experiences
Rick Lawford, U. Maryland - Examples of the use of NASA and other Remote Sensing and data assimilation
products and information platforms in drought monitoring and prediction
Shawana Johnson, Global Marketing Insights - Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observations for identifying drought
Molly Brown, NASA - A satellite-based drought product using thermal remote sensing of evapotranspiration
Martha Anderson, USDA - Examining the role of evaporative demand in drought monitoring
Mike Hobbins, NOAA - Integrated data and model needs for drought monitoring
Dennis Lettenmaier, U. of Washington - Enhancement of Drought Monitoring with NASA Satellite Data
Son Nghiem, NASA/JPL - Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI) - A Tool for Agricultural Drought Monitoring
Brian Wardlow, U. Nebraska, NDMC - Application of Assimilated GRACE Data for Drought Monitoring
Matthew Rodell, NASA - Downscaling and drought predictions
Xin-Zhong Liang, U. Maryland - Global and Regional Drought Monitoring Implementation through the
Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)
Will Pozzi, NOAA - Quantitative Drought Monitoring based on Land Surface Modeling and Remote Sensing Products
Alok Sahoo, Princeton - Global Drought Monitoring using PERSIANN and SPI
Peyman Daneshkar Arasteh, UCI - Enhancing the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) over Africa
by tracking agricultural drought using the NASA product-based
FEWSNET Land Data Assimilation System (FLDAS)
Soni Yatheendradas
Session 2: Existing national and international drought services: services,opportunities and gaps
Session 3: Special requirements for drought monitoring in the fields of agriculture and hydrology
Session 4: Current and potential use of NASA and other remote sensing products in monitoring and analysis of drought
Session 5: Contributions of data assimilation products and models in monitoring and predicting drought
Presentations 12 April 2011
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Session 5 (continued): Contributions of data assimilation
products and models in monitoring and predicting drought
- NLDAS and Drought Monitoring over the Continental United States
Mike Ek, NOAA - The Use of Earth Observations in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS)
for Drought Monitoring and Prediction
David Mocko, NASA - Evaluation of long-term, high-resolution NLDAS products using in-situ observations,
and application of these products to the U.S. Drought Monitor
Youlong Xia, NOAA - The Seasonal Prediction of Hydrological Drought
Randy Koster, NASA - GEO and Drought Monitoring Activities
Rick Lawford, U. Maryland - Report on the recent WCRP drought workshop in Barcelona
Siegfried Schubert, NOAA - A Remote Sensing-based Global Agricultural Drought Monitoring and Forecasting
System for Supporting GEOSS
Liping Di, George Mason U. - MENA Water Information System Platform (WISP) drought activities
Ben Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins - NOAA: climate and drought activities
Nancy Beller-Simms, NOAA - USGS drought related activities
Jerad Bales, USGS - US BOR drought related activities
Ken Nowak, US BOR - US EPA drought related activities
Audrey Levine, US EPA - NASA: Maps, Tools and Services at NASA GES DISC for Supporting
Global Drought Monitoring Activities
Zhong Liu, NASA - NIDIS and drought monitoring and update on the IEEE Drought Workshop
Chad McNutt, NOAA
Session 6: Drought monitoring in the framework of global programs
Session 7: Short reports on drought programs in other departments
Poster Presentations
- NIDIS Research and Implementation: Developing Early Warning Information
Systems Across Climactic Timescales
Darby - ICIWaRM Non-Proprietary Drought Atlas Software
Jason Giovannettone - Changes to the North Atlantic Subtropical High and Its Impact on
Summer Droughts/Floods in the Southeastern US
Wenhong Li
Date Last Modified: 08/9/11
