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Event Date
June 2, 2025
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
Fort Collins, CO

Please join us for a pre-workshop meeting, “Operations and Maintenance Challenges for Soil Moisture Networks," ahead of the 2025 National Soil Moisture Workshop in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Event Date
June 3, 2025 - June 5, 2025
Location
Fort Collins, CO

Please join us for the 2025 National Soil Moisture Workshop, which is scheduled for June 3-5, 2025 at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO.

Event Date
January 21, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location
Virtual

The National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network hosts an online seminar series to share innovative soil moisture research activities. This seminar will provide a review of two USDA ARS long-term study sites, the Little Washita and Fort Cobb watersheds, which have a rich history of soil moisture research and have had a major impact on hydrologic science in the past few years. 

Event Date
October 22, 2024

Drought developed or worsened across Oklahoma over the summer. In September, Extreme Drought (D3) expanded over southwest Oklahoma, northwest Texas, and southern Kansas. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center’s seasonal outlooks predict increased chances for warmer- and drier-than-normal conditions through the end of the year across the Southern Plains and into adjacent states. In fact, parts of eastern Texas that experienced flooding in early summer are now experiencing Moderate Drought (D1), which is likely to worsen in the coming months.

The Climate Toolbox’s Drought Recovery Tool allows users to investigate the probability of recovering from drought conditions in the Western U.S. based on past observations from 1920-2020. 

Topofire is a topographically resolved wildfire danger and drought monitoring system for the contiguous U.S. The Topofire model methodology considers terrain and solar radiation, thus better capturing the effect that terrain geometries have on the spatial distribution of energy inputs.

Event Date
March 19, 2024

The National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network is hosting a regular online seminar series to share innovative soil moisture research activities. 

This seminar explored how soil moisture monitoring information can be used to support water resource and ecological applications by presenting case studies from two headwaters basins of the Colorado River:  

Event Date
July 15, 2024 - July 18, 2024
Location
Logan, UT

Please join us for the 2024 National Soil Moisture Workshop, which will be held in-person (with a limited virtual option) July 15–18, 2024 at Utah State University, in Logan, Utah.  

Event Date
March 19, 2024
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location
Virtual

The National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network is hosting a regular online seminar series to  share innovative soil moisture research activities. This seminar will explore how soil moisture monitoring information can be use to support water resource and ecological applications by presenting case studies from two headwaters basins of the Colorado River.

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There are currently not many stations reporting publicly accessible soil moisture data in Alabama, leading to significant gaps in data coverage.  To fill that gap, a team led by Lee Ellenburg, a research engineer at the University of Alabama at Huntsville’s Earth System Science Center and Alabama associate state climatologist, developed a new type of low cost soil moisture monitoring station to deploy across the state. 

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