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Drought Resources
Linda FischerRegional Extension Education Director
Drought
• Meteorological – precipitation below normal values
• Agricultural- inadequate soil moisture for crops or livestock
• Hydrological – surface & subsurface water significantly below normal
• Socioeconomic – physical water shortage begins to effect daily life
Drought Resources
Drought Resources
http://eden.lsu.edu
• A collaborative multi-state effort by the land-grant universities’ Cooperative Extension Services and the National Sea Grant College Program.– Nearly 300 members– Representing 50 states and 3 U.S. territories
And…
Alaska
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Guam
Virgin Islands
What is EDEN?
Fourteen
specialists representing
their universities
NEIL Drought Team
Drought NEIL Chair: Kim Cassel SDSU 605-696-7873
kim.cassel@sdstate.edu
NEIL Drought Team interdisciplinary team of Extension
Specialists and Extension Educators working together to develop sustainable EDEN and EDEN eXtension research based drought resources.
Member of National VOAD & Wildfire Task Force
eXtension Drought Resources
• Link from EDEN home page to eXtension• Sharing of Drought resource publications• Links to other organizations involved with
drought disaster
Drought Preparedness
• Continued Drought will impact beyond Agriculture
• Drought Capacity Building for Communities – A multi-agency, multi-organization effort to
guide communities to tackle tough drought issues.
– Involves a local leadership team
Drought Preparedness• Drought Community Capacity Building
– Each community assess it’s ability to respond & recover from long term drought
– Provide community with information about drought recovery, mitigation and prevention, the planning process
– Communities know best how to help themselves
– Assess Community Vulnerabilities & Assets
Drought Resources
• ISU Extension & Outreach website: www.extension.iastate.edu
• EDEN Drought Page http://eden.lsu.edu/Topics/Hazards/Drought
• National Drought Mitigation Center: http://drought.unl.edu/Home.aspx
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