Deb Bathke

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Title	Climate Scientist \| NDMC Education Coordinator
Faculty Rank	Research Associate Professor
Address	823 South Hardin Hall 3310 Holdrege Street Lincoln NE 68583–0988
Phone	office: 402-472-6199 fax: 402-472-2946
E-mail	dbathke2@unl.edu
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My Story

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Deborah Bathke, a climatologist with drought management experience, to the National Drought Mitigation C and to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's School of Natural Resources and Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

Although Dr. Bathke grew up in northeast Nebraska and has strong ties to Lincoln - two degrees - she didn't anticipate returning, and was pleased when the right opportunity presented itself.

"We are delighted to be adding Deborah to our staff," said NDMC Director Mike Hayes. "She brings valuable experience in drought planning and management, and is well respected in the climate community."

Bathke spent the past three years as the assistant state climatologist in New Mexico, where she chaired the state's Drought Monitoring Working Group. She is familiar with the challenges states face in drought planning, such as "the ebbs and flows of resources, with precipitation and drought events." One of the perpetual challenges of drought management is to maintain focus during non-drought times, when actual planning is possible, rather than crisis response.

"Having grown up in the Plains and the Midwest, living in the Southwest, I learned a lot," Bathke said. Water rights, cultural traditions, and physical differences such as flood irrigation all contribute to different attitudes and options.

She represented New Mexico in the Climate Assessment for the Southwest program, or CLIMAS, which is one of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Regional Integrated Science Assessment programs. Among the projects she collaborated on were adapting the Dynamic Drought Index for Basins in the Carolinas to the Southwest; implementing a western version of the AgClimate Tools developed by the Southeast Climate Consortium; and convening technical workshops on tree-ring reconstructions of streamflow.

Bathke is supervising ongoing student research on urban landscaping and drought, and is on the Program Implementation Team of the National Integrated Drought Information System.

Selected Publications

Podebradska, M., Wylie, B. K., Bathke, D., Bayissa, Y. A., Dahal, D., Derner, J. D., Fay, P. A., Hayes, M. J., Schacht, W., Volesky, J., Wagle, P., Wardlow, B. (2021). Monitoring climate impacts on annual forage production across U.S. semi-arid grasslands. Remote Sensing, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14010004	Online
Rippey, B., Fuchs, B., Simeral, D., Bathke, D., Heim, R., Svoboda, M. (2021). The Drought Monitor Comes of Age. Weatherwise, 74(2), 29 - 37. https://doi.org/10.1080/00431672.2021.1873000
Bathke, D. J. (2020). U.S. Drought Monitor. Lincoln, NE: National Drought Mitigation Center. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/MapArchive.aspx
Bathke, D. J. (2020). U.S. Drought Monitor: April 28, 2020. Lincoln, NE: National Drought Mitigation Center. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/MapArchive.aspx
Bathke, D., Bernadt, T. (2020). Collaborative Drought Planning Using Scenario Exercises (http://drought.unl.edu/scenarioguide/Overview.aspx ed.). Lincoln, NE: National Drought Mitigation Center
Noel, M., D. Bathke, B. Fuchs, D. Gutzmer, T. Haigh, M. Hayes, M. Poděbradská, C. Shield, K. Smith, M. Svoboda. (2020) Linking Drought Impacts to Drought Severity at the State Level. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 101:E1312–E1321.	Online
Noel, M., Hayes, M., Bathke, D., Haigh, T. 2020. Ready for Drought? A Community Resilience Role-Playing Game. Water. 12, 2490: 1-17.	Online
Bathke, D., Haigh, T., Bernadt, T., Wall, N., Hill, H., Carson, A. 2019. Using Serious Games to Facilitate Collaborative Water Management Planning Under Climate Extremes. Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education (167), 55-60.	Online
Bathke, D., Prendeville, H. R., Jacobs, A., Heim, R., Thoman, R., Fuchs, B. 2019. Defining Drought in a Temperate Rainforest. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.	Online
Bathke, D., Prendeville, H., Jacobs, A., Heim, R., Thoman, R., Fuchs, B. 2019. Defining Drought in a Temperate Rainforest. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. December 2019: 2665-2668.	Online
McAfee, S.A., Littell, J.S., Prendeville, H.R., Gray, S.T., Jacobs, A., Thoman, R., Bathke, D., Bidlak, A., Bieniek, P., Lader, R., Rupp, T.S., Wolken, G.J. 2019. Blending Coproduction and Conventional Research Approaches to Address Real-World Climate Cha
Petersen, B., Fuchs, B., Hayes, M.J., Brusberg, M.D., Bathke, D. 2019. Using GIS to Show Drought Impacts on North American Agricultural Commodities. Boston, MA: AMS.	Online
Poděbradská, M., Wylie, B., Hayes, M. J., Wardlow, B., Bathke, D., Dahal, D., Bliss, N. 2019. Monitoring Drought Impacts on Annual Forage Production in Semi-arid Grasslands: Nebraska Sandhills Case Study. Remote Sensing. 11(18), 2106.	Online
Podebradska, M., Wylie, B., Hayes, M.J., Wardlow, B., Bathke, D. 2019. Developing a Tool to Monitor Drought Impacts on Semi-Arid U.S. Grasslands: Nebraska Sandhills Case Study. Littleton, Co: Society for Range Management. Pp. 74.	Online
Podebradska, M., Wylie, B., Hayes, M.J., Wardlow, B., Bathke, D. 2019. Developing a Tool to Monitor Drought Impacts on Semi-Arid U.S. Grasslands: Nebraska Sandhills Case Study. Washington, D.C.: ESA.	Online
Podebradska, M., Wylie, B., Hayes, M.J., Wardlow, B., Bathke, D. 2019. Drought Impacts on Annual Forage Production in Semi-arid Grasslands. AGU.	Online
Podebradska, M., Wylie, B., Hayes, M.J., Wardlow, B.D., Bathke, D.J., Bliss, N.B., Dahal, D. (2019) Monitoring Drought Impact on Annual Forage Production in Semi-Arid Grasslands: A Case Study of Nebraska Sandhills. Remoste Sens. 11(18), 2106	Online
Raheem, N., Cravens, A. E., Cross, M. S., Crausbay, S., Ramirez, A., McEvoy, J., Zoanni, D., Bathke, D., Hayes, M. J., Carter, S., Rubenstein, M., Schwend, A., Hall, K., Suberu, P. 2019. Planning for Ecological Drought: Integrating Ecosystem Services and	Online
Wickham, E., Bathke, D., Bulling, D., Abdel-Monem, T., Pytlik Zillig, L., Bernadt,T., Wall, N., Stiles, C. 2019. Conducting a drought-specific THIRA (Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment): A powerful tool for integrating all-hazard mitigat	Online
Bathke, D. (2018). U.S. Drought Monitor: December 4, 2018.	Online
Bathke, D. (2018). U.S. Drought Monitor: February 20, 2018.	Online
Bathke, D. (2018). U.S. Drought Monitor: February 27, 2018.	Online
Bathke, D. (2018). U.S. Drought Monitor: October 30, 2018.	Online
Bulling, D., Bathke, D., Pytlik Zillig, L., Abdel-Monem, T., Stiles, C., Wickham, E., Bernadt, T., Wall, N. (2018). Drought THIRA Application Toolkit.	Online
Carson, A., Hill, H., Windsor, M., Haigh, T., Wall, N., Smith, J., Olsen, R., Bathke, D., Demir, I., Muste, M. (2018). Serious Gaming Based Participatory Planning for Mitigation of Flood, Drought, and Water Quality. International Journal of River Basin Ma
Jedd, T., Bathke, D., Gill, D., Paul, B., Wall, N., Bernadt, T., Petr, J., Mucia, A., Wall, M. (2018). Tracking Drought Recovery and Resilience at the Community Level: A Rural Case Study of a Recurrent Invisible Hazard. Tracking Drought Perspectives: A Ru
Jedd. T., Bathke, D.J., Gill, D., Paul, B., Wall, N., Bernadt, T.K., Petr, J., Mucia, A.J., Wall, M. 2018. Weather , Climate, and Society, Volume 10 (October 2018), pp 653-672. DOI: 10.1175/WCAS-D-17-0067.1	Online
McEvoy, J., Bathke, D., Burkardt, N., Cravens, A., Haigh, T., Hall, K., Hayes, M. J., Jedd, T., Podebradska, M., Wickham, E. (2018). Ecological Drought: Accounting for the Non-Human Impacts of Water Shortage in the Upper Missouri Headwaters Basin, Montan	Online
Tadesse, T., Wall, N., Hayes, M. J., Svoboda, M., Bathke, D. (2018). Improving National and Regional Drought Early Warning Systems in the Greater Horn of Africa. Improving National and Regional Drought Early Warning Systems in the Greater Horn of Africa.
Crausbay, S., Ramirez, A., Carter, S., Cross, M., Hall, K., Bathke, D., Betancourt, J., Colt, S., Cravens, A., Dalton, M., Dunham, J., Hay, L., Hayes, M. J., McEvoy, J., McNutt, C., Moritz, M., Nislow, K., Raheem, N., Sanford, T. (2017). Defining Ecologic	Online
Crausbay, S., Ramirez, A., Carter, S., Cross, M., Hall, K., Bathke, D., Betancourt, J., Colt, S., Cravens, A., Dalton, M., Dunham, J., Hayes, L., Hayes, M. J., McEvoy, J., McNutt, C., Moritz, M., Nislow, K., Raheem, N., Sanford, T. (2017). Defining ecolog	Online
Tadesse, T., D. Bathke, N. Wall, J. Petr, and T. Haigh, 2015. Participatory Research Workshop on Seasonal Prediction of Hydro-climatic Extremes in the Greater Horn of Africa. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, ES139	Online
Bathke, D., N. Wall, J. Nothwehr, K. Smith, D. Woudenberg, T. Bernadt, C. Bergman, J. Robine, M. Hayes, M. Svoboda, L. Darby, and R. Pulwarty, 2012: Building a Sustainable Network of Drought Communities. National Integrated Drought Information System Enga	Online
Bathke, D., Bernadt, T., Fuchs, B., Svoboda, M. (in press). A Tutorial for the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Background

Education

Degree	Major	Institution	Year Awarded
Doctorate of Philosophy	Atmospheric Sciences	Ohio State University	2004
Master of Science		University of Nebraska-Lincoln	1998
Bachelor of Science		University of Nebraska-Lincoln	1995

Affiliations

SNR Program Areas

Applied Climate and Spatial Science

Grants

Currently this page only displays grants that were awarded on 1/1/ 2009 to the present. If a grant was awarded prior to 1/1/ 2009 and is still active, it will not be displayed on this page.

Grant Title	Lower Platte Drought Consortium Tabletop Exercise
Starting Date	08/19/2021	Investigator(s) Deborah Bathke
Ending Date	06/30/2022
Funding Level	$8,262.00
Funding Agency	Nebraska Department of Natural Resources

Grant Title	An Extension Guidebook to Help Communities Plan for Drought using Scenario Based Exercises
Starting Date	03/31/2021	Investigator(s) Deborah Bathke
Ending Date	09/29/2022
Funding Level	$8,051.00
Funding Agency	Purdue University

Grant Title	A Multi-Spatial Approach to Monitoring Forage Characteristics of Western US Grasslands
Starting Date	10/01/2020	Investigator(s) Michael Hayes Deborah Bathke Marketa Podebradska Mark Svoboda Brian Wardlow
Ending Date	08/16/2021
Funding Level	$84,999.00
Funding Agency	US Department of Interior - Geological Survey

Grant Title	USDA Support of the US Drought Monitor and Hub Activities
Starting Date	10/01/2020	Investigator(s) Mark Svoboda Deborah Bathke Brian Fuchs Tonya Haigh Cody Knutson Kelly Smith Tsegaye Tadesse
Ending Date	09/30/2023
Funding Level	$2,375,000.00
Funding Agency	US Deparment of Agriculture - OCE

Grant Title	Drought Information Services and Research for Ag across the US
Starting Date	09/30/2020	Investigator(s) Brian Fuchs Deborah Bathke Tonya Haigh Cody Knutson Renata Rimsaite Kelly Smith Mark Svoboda Tsegaye Tadesse Brian Wardlow
Ending Date	09/29/2021
Funding Level	$800,000.00
Funding Agency	US Deparment of Agriculture - OCE

Grant Title	US Drought Portal Operaions and Development Support
Starting Date	09/01/2020	Investigator(s) Mark Svoboda Deborah Bathke Brian Fuchs Rezaul Mahmood
Ending Date	03/01/2021
Funding Level	$150,000.00
Funding Agency	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Grant Title	Drought Planning for the Republican River Basin
Starting Date	08/17/2020	Investigator(s) Kelly Smith Deborah Bathke
Ending Date	05/31/2022
Funding Level	$89,810.00
Funding Agency	Nebraska Department of Natural Resources

Grant Title	MENAdrought Empowering and Enhancing Drought Management Systems in the Middle East-North Africa Region (Additional Funding)
Starting Date	08/10/2020	Investigator(s) Mark Svoboda Deborah Bathke Michael Hayes Cody Knutson
Ending Date	09/30/2020
Funding Level	$119,483.00
Funding Agency	Water Management Institute

Grant Title	Providing Drought Information Services for the Nation: the National Drought Mitigation Center (Additional Funding)
Starting Date	08/01/2020	Investigator(s) Mark Svoboda Deborah Bathke Brian Fuchs Tonya Haigh Cody Knutson Kelly Smith Tsegaye Tadesse
Ending Date	09/30/2021
Funding Level	$808,530.00
Funding Agency	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Grant Title	Providing Drought Risk Management Services for the World Bank
Starting Date	05/29/2020	Investigator(s) Mark Svoboda Deborah Bathke Brian Fuchs Michael Hayes Cody Knutson Kelly Smith Tsegaye Tadesse Brian Wardlow
Ending Date	03/24/2021
Funding Level	$199,994.00
Funding Agency	World Bank Group

Grant Title	Extension Guidebook to Help Communities Plan for Drought
Starting Date	02/29/2020	Investigator(s) Mark Svoboda Deborah Bathke Tonya Bernadt
Ending Date	06/30/2020
Funding Level	$14,897.00
Funding Agency	University of Wisconsin Extension

Grant Title	Extension Guidebook
Starting Date	10/01/2019	Investigator(s) Deborah Bathke
Ending Date	08/31/2020
Funding Level	$24,671.00
Funding Agency	USDA - NIFA

Grant Title	Drought Information Services for Agriculture across the United States (Additional Funding)
Starting Date	09/30/2019	Investigator(s) Brian Fuchs Mark Svoboda Deborah Bathke Tsegaye Tadesse Cody Knutson
Ending Date	09/29/2020
Funding Level	$833,384.00
Funding Agency	USDA-OCE

Grant Title	Providing Drought Information Services for the Nation: the National Drought Mitigation Center
Starting Date	09/01/2019	Investigator(s) Mark Svoboda Deborah Bathke Brian Fuchs Tonya Haigh Cody Knutson Kelly Smith
Ending Date	08/31/2021
Funding Level	$791,470.00
Funding Agency	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association

Grant Title	NIDIS Help Desk Support AWR FY20 (Additional Funding)
Starting Date	09/01/2019	Investigator(s) Mark Svoboda Deborah Bathke Brian Fuchs Rezaul Mahmood
Ending Date	08/31/2020
Funding Level	$150,000.00
Funding Agency	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association

Grant Title	USAID MENAdrought
Starting Date	06/03/2019	Investigator(s) Mark Svoboda Deborah Bathke Michael Hayes Theresa Jedd Cody Knutson Christopher Neale
Ending Date	09/30/2021
Funding Level	$1,222,118.00
Funding Agency	IWMI

Grant Title	MENA Regional Drought Management (Additional Funding)
Starting Date	05/20/2019	Investigator(s) Mark Svoboda Deborah Bathke Michael Hayes Cody Knutson Tsegaye Tadesse
Ending Date	06/30/2019
Funding Level	$478,800.00
Funding Agency	Nebraska Environmental Trust

Grant Title	Drought Impacts on Grasslands
Starting Date	03/15/2019	Investigator(s) Michael Hayes Deborah Bathke Marketa Podebradska Mark Svoboda Brian Wardlow
Ending Date	09/14/2019
Funding Level	$84,995.00
Funding Agency	US Department of Interior - GS

Grant Title	NOAA High Plains Regional Climate Center (additional funding)
Starting Date	09/01/2018	Investigator(s) Natalie Umphlett Deborah Bathke Brian Fuchs Mark Svoboda
Ending Date	08/31/2019
Funding Level	$211,552.00
Funding Agency	Department of Commerce

Grant Title	Spotty Rain Champaign: Enhancing the Capacity for Rural Libraries to Engage the Public in Drought Science, Monitoring and Adaptation
Starting Date	07/15/2018	Investigator(s) Deborah Bathke
Ending Date	06/30/2020
Funding Level	$14,280.00
Funding Agency	Oklahoma State University

Grant Title	NIDIS Portal Assistance (Additional Funding)
Starting Date	09/01/2017	Investigator(s) Mark Svoboda Brian Fuchs Deborah Bathke
Ending Date	08/31/2018
Funding Level	$150,000.00
Funding Agency	NOAA

Grant Title	NP NRD Drought Tournament
Starting Date	10/25/2016	Investigator(s) Tonya Bernadt Deborah Bathke Nicole Wall
Ending Date	10/24/2017
Funding Level	$5,823.00
Funding Agency	North Platte NRD

Grant Title	Drought Information Services for Agriculture across the United States (Additional Funding)
Starting Date	10/01/2016	Investigator(s) Brian Fuchs Deborah Bathke Mark Svoboda Tsegaye Tadesse
Ending Date	09/30/2017
Funding Level	$827,501.00
Funding Agency	USDA - OCE

Grant Title	NIDIS Portal Assistance
Starting Date	09/01/2016	Investigator(s) Brian Fuchs Deborah Bathke Mark Svoboda Natalie Umphlett
Ending Date	08/31/2017
Funding Level	$150,000.00
Funding Agency	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Grant Title	Providing Drought Information Services for the Nation: the National Drought Mitigation Center
Starting Date	06/01/2015	Investigator(s) Michael Hayes Deborah Bathke Brian Fuchs Cody Knutson Mark Svoboda Tsegaye Tadesse
Ending Date	05/31/2018
Funding Level	$798,885.00
Funding Agency	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Grant Title	Drought Risk Management for the United States
Starting Date	09/01/2014	Investigator(s) Michael Hayes Deborah Bathke Brian Fuchs Cody Knutson Mark Svoboda Tsegaye Tadesse
Ending Date	08/31/2015
Funding Level	$693,696.00
Funding Agency	University of Oklahoma (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

Grant Title	NOAA High Plains Regional Climate Center
Starting Date	12/31/2011	Investigator(s) Martha Shulski Deborah Bathke Michael Hayes Mark Svoboda
Ending Date	03/31/2013
Funding Level	$829,888.00
Funding Agency	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Grant Title	Drought Monitor
Starting Date	10/01/2010	Investigator(s) Michael Hayes Mark Svoboda Cody Knutson Deborah Bathke
Ending Date	09/30/2013
Funding Level	$558,401.00
Funding Agency	Agriculture and Food Research Initiative/National Institute of Food and Agriculture

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