Program
| Tuesday, June 21, 2011, Stewart Center 202, 204 |
| 8:00 AM | 8:45 AM | Registration, Breakfast | |
| 8:45 AM | 9:00 AM | Welcome and opening remarks | |
| 9:00 AM | 10:30 AM | A look at the 20th century global droughts | Vijay Singh, Texas A&M University |
| Session Chair: | Dev Niyogi | An update on NOAA’s National Integrated Drought Information System | Doug Kluck, NOAA |
| Monitoring drought across many scales | Chris Funk, USGS/UCSB | ||
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Break/coffee | |
| 11:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Data challenges in the DataOne project | John Cobb, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Drought monitoring in the Midwest | Steve Hilberg, Midwestern Regional Climate Center | ||
| 12:00 PM | 2:00 PM | Lunch (West Faculty Lounge) | |
| 2:00 PM | 3:30 PM | On the physics of droughts | Levent Kavvas, UC Davis |
| Session Chair: | R. Govindaraju | A modified Standardized Precipitation Index for monitoring drought | Brent McRoberts, Texas State Climatologist office |
| DRINET project overview | The DRINET Team (Carol Song, Jake Carlson, Dev Niyogi, Rao Govindaraju, Indrajeet Chaubey, Chris Hoffmann), Purdue | ||
| 3:30 PM | 4:00 PM | Break/coffee | |
| 4:00 PM | 5:30 PM | Panel Session I: "Droughts in the 21th Century and Beyond" | Panelists: Jim Angel, Chris Funk, Vijay Singh, Mark Svoboda. Moderator: Rao Govindaraju |
| 5:30 PM | 6:30 PM | Poster Session, light snacks | |
| 6:30 PM | 8:00 PM | Dinner (West Faculty Lounge) | Featured Speaker: Professor Emeritus Jacques Delleur, Purdue University |
| Wednesday, June 22, 2011, Stewart Center 202, 204 |
| 8:00 AM | 9:00 AM | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Building an Enhanced Drought Early Warning System: Tool and Services for Decision Support | Mark Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
| Session Chair: | Jake Carlson | Designing the Workflow for a Digital Data Repository | Cole Whiteman, University of Michigan |
| Indiana’s Water Shortage plan drought triggers | Jerry Unterreiner, Indiana Water Shortage Task Force, IN Dept of Natural Resources | ||
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Break/coffee | |
| 11:00 AM | 12:00 PM | The Microsoft Geospatial Library | Michael Kallay, Microsoft |
| The use of large‐scale climate data to predict drought, river flows, and vegetation over Central‐Southwest Asia | Mathew Barlow, University of Massachusetts, Lowell | ||
| 12:00 PM | 2:00 PM | Lunch (West Faculty Lounge) | |
| 2:00 PM | 3:30 PM | Multi‐Hazard Mitigation Planning: Overview of the Local Planning Process and Future Enhancements | Laura Danielson, The Polis Center at IUPUI |
| Session Chair: | Subramania Sritharan | Developing a Climate Science Education Professional Development Program | Dan Shepardson, Purdue University |
| Information to Action: Providing Management Recommendations to Agricultural Users affected by Drought | Bruce Erickson, Purdue University | ||
| 3:30 PM | 4:00 PM | Break/coffee | |
| 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM | Panel Session II: Where do we go from here? | Panelists: Laura Danielson, Bruce Erickson, Mark Svoboda, Jerry Unterreiner. Moderator: Dev Niyogi |