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National Drought Mitigation Center

Each Monday, National Drought Mitigation Center assistant director Kelly Helm Smith emails a map of the past week’s #drought tweets to a listserv of drought experts and state climatologists.

Pilot system monitors tweets for drought early warning

November 5, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Andy Benson, director of the Nebraska Food for Health Center, discusses the medical benefits of food to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue during a tour of Nebraska Innovation Campus on Sept. 4.

Perdue says innovation, collaboration key to agriculture’s future

September 4, 2020

Submissions like this one to the Visual Drought Atlas help show different landscapes over time, in dry, wet and normal years.

Photo submissions sought for Visual Drought Atlas

July 1, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Information from the NASA GRACE-FO satellites is being used to produce and share first-of-their-kind global maps of topsoil, root zone soil and groundwater moisture, as well as 30-, 60- and 90-day forecasts of wet and dry conditions across the continental United States, thanks to a collaboration with the Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies and National Drought Mitigation Center.

Drought center, CALMIT help launch drought-monitoring, forecast tools

April 2, 2020

Husker who coined 'flash drought' helps define emerging phenomenon

March 11, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

A citizen scientist submitted this photo of Perch Lake in Woodside Township, Polk County, Minnesota, looking south. “It has been a cool summer with normal to slightly above normal precipitation here,” the observer wrote.

Citizen scientists encouraged to take landscape photos Feb. 15-17

February 10, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Brian Fuchs, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center, said support from the USDA adds flexibility for researchers to explore and respond to more nuanced drought-mitigation challenges.

Drought Mitigation Center continues to develop, expand tools

January 22, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

National Drought Mitigation Center graduate assistant Markéta Poděbradská leads a trial run of NDMC's Ready for Drought game. | Shawna Richter-Ryerson

National Drought Mitigation Center unveils new game

June 24, 2019

Nebraska researchers tailor FEMA process for drought

November 20, 2018

Achievements | Honors, awards, publications for March 16

March 16, 2018

Andries Jordaan (left) and Janse Robie, both of disaster management agencies in South Africa, talk with NDMC climatologist Deborah Bathke during a recent visit to learn about the center's available tools.

South African officials examine climate tools at drought center

September 13, 2017

Agriculture & Environment

Warning system gets the early drop on drought

July 12, 2017

Agriculture & Environment