Drought Dashboards to Improve Drought Monitoring, Inform Tribal Resilience, and Preserve Ecological and Cultural Resources
This webinar will focus on recently developed drought dashboards and tools to improve drought monitoring, inform tribal drought resilience, and preserve ecological and cultural resources. Researchers will share findings from the Fiscal Year 2022 Coping with Drought competitions on Building Tribal Drought Resilience.
Register for this webinar or register for the entire series. This webinar will be recorded and available here.
Presentations and Speakers:
- Native Drought Resilience: Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) Actions for Climate-Drought Adaptation
- Kyle Bocinsky, University of Montana; Michael Durglo, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes; Virgil Dupuis, Salish Kootenai College Extension; Maureen McCarthy, Desert Research Institute; Anne Carlson, Glacier-Two Medicine Alliance; and Zach Hoylman, University of Montana
- Developing a Drought Early Warning System and Indices for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
- Kate Ely, Lyndsi Lewis, and Troy Baker, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
- Chími nukárihihi (Let’s Get Ready): Collaborative Climate Change and Drought Response Monitoring and Implementation
- Aja Conrad and Judson Fisher, Karuk Tribe
About This Webinar Series
This webinar is the sixth in a webinar series that seeks to raise awareness of ecological drought, share actions that strengthen ecosystem resilience and mitigate the impacts of droughts, and highlight advancements in integrating interdisciplinary research and management needs for future drought planning and preparedness. The series is co-hosted by the NOAA National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) and the USGS National Climate Adaptation Science Center (NCASC), with expert speakers from the research community, tribal nations, and government agencies. Information shared will build on the NIDIS/NCASC 2021 National Ecological Drought Webinar Series.
For more information, please contact Britt Parker (britt.parker@noaa.gov).
