CSU Project #: 5-31128
Sponsor: NOAA
Primary Investigator: Nolan Doesken
Start Date: July 1st, 2011
End Date: June 30th, 2014

• Develop and improve drought monitoring webinars for the purpose of providing timely status reports and drought early warning information for stakeholders and information providers and also to coordinate input for the USDM weekly update cycle
• Expand active participation and strategically engage multiagency expertise from Utah and Wyoming to improve the quality and cross-border consistency of USDM products
• Expand the current scope of this drought monitoring and early warning effort to begin to address the Tribal information and communications needs of the highly climate sensitive Four Corners Region
• Systematically conduct formative and summative evaluation with emphasis on stakeholder impact and changes in confidence and use of drought products and information over time

• Promoting Education and Outreach on Behalf of NOAA and the University
• Climate-Weather Processes
• Data Distribution
• Assessing the Value of NOAA Research via Societal/Economic Impact Studies

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