2005 U.S. Drought Monitor Forum

Holiday Inn Capitol
Washington, DC
October 20-21, 2005

Organized by USDA's Office of the Chief Economist and NOAA's Climate Prediction Center

Sponsored by the National Drought Mitigation Center, USDA's Office of the Chief Economist, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, and NOAA's National Climatic Data Center

Speeches and Presentations from Past Forums

Oct 21-22, 2004, Regina, SK
Oct 1-3, 2003, Cedar City, UT
Jun 25-27, 2003,Asheville, NC
Apr 25-27, 2002, Asheville, NC
Nov 16-17, 2000, Lincoln, NE

2005 Presentations

Thursday, October 20, 2005
Introduction	Keith Collins, USDA Chief Economist
USDA Opening Remarks	Charles F. Conner, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
NOAA Opening Remarks	James R. Mahoney, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
Welcome	Brad Rippey, USDA, and David Miskus, NOAA/NWS/CPC
NIDIS Products Update	Bob Livezey, NOAA/NWS/CS
Media Feedback on the U.S. Drought Monitor	Jack Williams, AMS Gary Wulf, Dow Jones Newswires Bryce Anderson, DTN Bob Ryan, NBC-4 Carmeyia Gillis, NOAA Public Affairs
NCDC's Real-time Station Data Monitoring System	Richard Heim, NOAA/NCDC
WaterWatch Update and WaterMonitor.gov Introduction	Harry Lins, DOI/USGS
NWS River Forecast Center Gridded Precipitation Estimates	Victor Murphy, NWS
2005 VegDRI Retrospective and Future Plans	Jesslyn Brown, SAIC (for OS)
2005 U.S. Crop Summary	Brad Rippey, USDA
Midwest Drought of 2005: USDM As Lens or Prism?	Mike Palecki, Midwestern RCC
Local WFO Response to Drought	Paul Iniguez, NWS WFO Little Rock
Update on the Seasonal Drought Outlook	Douglas LeComte, NOAA/NWS/CPC
EStimating the Economic Impacts of Drought	Mike Hayes, NDMC
Friday, October 21, 2005
CLIMAS Update	Mike Crimmins, CLIMAS/University of AZ
ArcGIS Update and CPC Product Development	Harlan Shannon, USDA, and Rich Tinker, NOAA/NWS/CPC
New Snow Survey and Water Supply GIS Products for Drought Monitoring: New Water Supply Forecast Technologies and Visualization Tools	Tom Pagano, USDA/NRCS/National Water and Climate Center
Toward a Westwide Surface Water Supply Index	Phil Pasteris, USDA/NRCS/National Water and Climate Center
Computing the Monthly Palmer Drought Index on a Weekly Basis	Richard Heim, NOAA/NCDC
Climate Variability and Water Availability in the Southeast Region	Bud Badr, SERCC Director
Low-Flow Impacts Database	Doug Kluck, NWS Central Region
USDM Guidelines	Douglas LeComte, NOAA/NWS/CPC
DM2015: Where to from Here?	Mark Svoboda, NDMC
Discussion of USDM Technical and Administrative Issues	Moderator: Mark Svoboda, NDMC
Canadian Drought-Monitoring Update	Ted O'Brien, AAFC-PFRA
Mexican Drought-Monitoring Update	Phil Englehart, Creighton University
Open Discussion of NADM Issues	Moderator: Jay Lawrimore, NCDC