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Enhancing Drought Awareness: NIDIS Webinars and Outlooks Review and Future Directions

This document outlines the objectives and achievements of NIDIS’s drought webinars and outlooks, held on December 1-2, 2011, at Lake Lanier Islands, Georgia. It discusses the importance of these webinars in alerting stakeholders about potential drought risks, stemming from workshops starting in April 2010. Key accomplishments include the evolution of webinar formats and stakeholder participation strategies. The future focus is on sustaining webinars, automating processes, and broadening participation to effectively mitigate drought impacts.

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Enhancing Drought Awareness: NIDIS Webinars and Outlooks Review and Future Directions

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  1. Climate Outlooks and Webinars KT Ingram NIDIS Drought Early Warning System Pilot Review and Future Directions 1-2 December 2011, Lake Lanier Islands, Georgia

  2. Outline • Why we do webinars and outlooks • Accomplishments over the past year • Future needs and opportunities

  3. Why webinars and outlooks • NIDIS conducted a series of workshops beginning in April 2010 • Apalachicola, FL; Pine Mountain, GA; Stone Mountain, GA; Lake Blackshear, GA • NIDIS also held an outlook forum in Albany, GA in November 2010 • As ENSO was entering a La Niña phase, participants in these events agreed that we should alert stakeholders to the potential for drought through webinars

  4. Webinar History and Accomplishments • November 2010: Form committee to design webinars • Learning from the Upper Colorado NIDIS Pilot • Series of prototypes • Dry runs • First webinar 21 January 2011 US Drought Monitor, 1 Dec 2011

  5. Webinar format 28-day streamflow, Flint at Bainbridge • Introduction • Current drought status • Conditions that led up to the current status • Projections • Discussion of impacts • Summary

  6. Webinar evolution and summary • Based on inputs from committee members, webinar participants, and communications experts, we have tried to develop a body of information that both gives a full context of the basin, and focuses specifically on the basin Ground water depth, Mitchell Co, GA USGA 1 Dec 2011

  7. Who has been involved? • The design committee included many in the room today and others • Webinar standard content providers include: • Florida Climate Center • US Geological Survey • Army Corps of Engineers • SE River Forecast Center • Special content: • UCO-Boulder/CIRES • Tallahassee NWS • FL DEP Sea surface temperature anomalies NOAA NESDIS, 1 Dec 2011

  8. Future needs and opportunities • Sustaining the process • Rely on teams, not individuals • Institutionalize webinars • Automate slide production • Inputs to drought monitor • Enlarge participation • Include media 8-14 day Precipitation Outlook, 1 Dec 2011 NOAA CPC

  9. Thanks!Especially to everyone who has provided content and feedback, and to those who have participated in the webinars

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