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Workshop
Measuring, Quantifying, and Reporting Drought Impacts
Sponsored by: Western States Water Council and California Department of Water Resources in cooperation with the Western Governors’ Association
August 5 – 7, 2013
Doubletree San Diego Downtown
1646 Front Street, San Diego, CA
Monday, August 5
11:00 am Registration
1:00 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks, Workshop Purpose and Desired Outcomes
Tony Willardson, Western States Water Council (WSWC)
Jeanine Jones, California Department of Water Resources (CDWR)
1:30 pm Federal Agency Panel – (federal program data sources)
Links to Department of Agriculture Data Resources
Mary Bohman, Administrator, USDA’s Economic Research Service (via phone)
Vic Tolomeo, USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service
Jeff Yasui, Regional Director, USDA’s Risk Management Agency
Jeffrey Prestemon, U.S. Forest Service, Forest Economics and Policy Research
Bob Boyd, Branch Chief, Assessment and Monitoring, Bureau of Land Management
Rolf Olsen, Water Resources Systems Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Dionne Thompson, Chief, Office of Congressional Affairs, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
3:30 pm Break
3:45 pm State and Local Agency Panel – (state/local agency data needs, data sources)
J.D. Strong, Executive Director, Oklahoma Water Resources Board (via phone)
Dr. Robert Mace, Deputy Executive Administrator, Texas Water Development Board
Tracy Streeter, Director, Kansas Water Office
Greg Fisher, Water Demand Manager, Denver Water
Anne Steinemann, California-Nevada Applications Program, Scripps Institute
David Bolland, Senior Regulatory Advocate, Association of California Water Agencies
5:15 pm Adjourn
6:00 pm Reception – Cash Bar
Tuesday, August 6
8:00 am Potential Role for the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS)
Veva Deheza, NIDIS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
8:30 am Breakout Session – Discussion of Data Needs and Sources
10:15 am Break
10:30 am Remote Sensing and Wildfire
Nghiem -Kafatos, Son Nghiem, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory & Menas Kafatos, Chapman University
10:50 am Report Back From Breakout Session and Discussion
11:20 am Emerging Approaches to Measuring Drought Impacts
NIDIS CA Crop Fallowing Project — Forrest Melton, Senior Research Scientist, NASA Ames
Evaporative Demand: Drought Impacts and Assessment – Mike Hobbins, NOAA
12:15 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:45 pm Breakout Session – Discussion of Impact Quantification
3:45 pm Break
4:00 pm Report Back From Breakout Session and Discussion
5:00 pm Adjourn
Wednesday, August 7
8:00 am Lessons Learned From NDMC’s Drought Impact Reporter
Kelly Smith, Drought Resources Specialist, National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC)
8:30 am Breakout Session – Building Institutional Framework for Quantification and Reporting
10:15 am Break
10:30 am Report Back From Breakout Session and Discussion
11:30 am Action Items and Closing Remarks
12:00 noon Adjourn