The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is taking the lead in implementing the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS).
The NIDIS Program Office was established at NOAA's Earth Systems Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, in 2007. Roger Pulwarty is its director and Jim Verdin is its deputy director.
Roger is also chair of the NIDIS Program Implementation Team. The teams co-chairs are Kelly Redmond and Shaun McGrath.
Verdin is on rotation for two years from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Redmond is the deputy director of the Western Regional Climate Center. McGrath is the Western Governors' Association program director for water policy.
An equally impressive lineup of researchers and science communicators serve on the Implementation Team:
- Deborah Bathke, New Mexico State University
- Michael Brewer, NOAA, National Weather Service (NWS)
- Mark Brusberg, US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Office of the Chief Economist
- Heidi Cullen, The Weather Channel
- Art Deaetano, Northeast Regional Climate Center
- Wayne Higgins, NOAA/NWS
- Steve Hilberg, Midwestern Regional Climate Center
- Doug Kluck, NOAA/NWS
- Harry Lins, USGS
- Hope Mizzell, Southeast Regional Climate Center
- Phil Mote, University of Washington
- Carolyn Olson, USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
- Rolf Olsen, US Corps of Engineers
- Tim Owen, NOAA, National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
- Phil Pasteris, USDA/NRCS
- David Robinson, Rutgers University, New Jersey State Climatologist
- Siegfried Schubert, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Mark Shafer, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Climatological Survey
- Anne Steinemann, University of Washington
- Jean Steiner, USDA, Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
- Mark Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC)
- Dennis Todey, South Dakota State University, South Dakota State Climatologist
- Jim Verdin, USGS
- Robert Webb, NOAA/Earth Systems Research Laboratory
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