MONDAY, 7 DECEMBER 2009

	Participants Arrive in Nebraska
16:00-18:00 hrs	Registration - Holiday-Inn

 

TUESDAY, 8 DECEMBER 2009

08:00-09:00 hrs	Registration - Holiday-Inn   (contd.)
09:00 hrs	Welcome
	Don Wilhite
	School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska, USA
09:05 hrs	Address
	John Owens
	Vice-Chancellor of the Institute of Agriculture & Natural Resources
	Vice-President of the University of Nebraska
09:15 hrs	Address
	Prem Paul
	Vice-Chancellor for Research and Economic Development, University of Nebraska
09:25 hrs	Address
	M.V.K. Sivakumar
	World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Switzerland
09:35 hrs	Group Photo and Tea/Coffee Break

 

10:00 hrs	Defining Drought: The Challenges for Early Warning Systems
	Don Wilhite
	School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska, USA
10:30 hrs	Early Warning Systems for Drought: Past and Present
	M.V.K. Sivakumar
	World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Switzerland
11:00 hrs	National Integrated Drought Information System: Building Partnership for Drought Early Warning, Assessment and Mitigation
	Roger Pulwarty
	NIDIS Programme Office, NOAA, USA
11:30 hrs	Discussion
12:00 hrs	Lunch

      

AFRICA
13:30 hrs	Drought Indices in East Africa
	Christopher Oludhe
	University of Nairobi, Kenya
13:50 hrs	Comments from Africa Panel Members
	Brad Garanganga
	SADC Drought Monitoring Centre, Botswana
	Seydou Traore
	AGRHYMET Centre, Niger
14:00 hrs	Discussion
ASIA
14:30 hrs	Drought Indices in South Asia
	Jayanta Sarkar
	India Meteorological Department (IMD), India
14:50 hrs	Comments from Asia Panel Members
	Houquan Lu
	China Meteorological Administration (CMA), China
	Natalya Agalts’eva
	Uzhydromet, Uzbekistan
15:10 hrs	Discussion
15:40 hrs	Tea/Coffee Break
SOUTH AMERICA
16:00 hrs	Drought Indices in South America
	Paulo Sentelhas
	University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
16:20 hrs	Comments from South America Panel Members
	Constantino Alarcon
	INAMHI, Peru
	Liliana Nuñez
	National Meteorological Service, Argentina
16:40 hrs	Discussion
17:10 hrs	Adjournment
18:00 hrs	Cash Bar and Dinner at the Holiday Inn (hosted by WMO)

  

WEDNESDAY, 9 DECEMBER 2009

NORTH AMERICA
08:30 hrs	Drought Indices in North America
	Richard Heim
	National Climatic Data Centre, NOAA, USA
09:00 hrs	Comments from North America Panel Members
	Trevor Hadwen
	National Agroclimate Information Service, Canada
	Adrian Trotman
	Caribbean Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH), Barbados
09:20 hrs	Discussion
09:40 hrs	Tea/Coffee Break

 

10:00 hrs	Sectoral Impacts of Drought: Indicators for Early Warning and Assessment
	Michael Hayes
	National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska, USA
10:30 hrs	Comments from Drought Impacts Panel Members
	Brad Rippey
	Joint Agriculture Weather Facility, USDA, USA
	Brad Garanganga
	SADC Drought Monitoring Centre, Botswana
	Stefan Niemeyer
	European Joint Research Facility, ISPRA, Italy
10:50 hrs	Discussion

 

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC
11:20 hrs	Drought Indices in Southwest Pacific
	Roger Stone
	University of Southern Queensland,  Australia
11:40 hrs	Comments from Southwest Pacific Panel Members
	Flaviana Hilario
	PAGASA, Philippines
	Erwin Eka Syahputra Makmur
	Meteorological Climatological & Geophysical Agency, Indonesia
12:00 hrs	Discussion
12:30 hrs	Lunch
EUROPE
14:00 hrs	Drought Indices in Europe
	Gregor Gregoric
	Drought Management Center for South-eastern Europe (DMCSEE), Slovenia
14:20 hrs	Comments from Europe Panel Members
	Jose Luis Camacho
	AEMET, Spain
	Elena Mateescu
	National Meteorological Administration, Romania
14:40 hrs	Discussion

 

15:10 hrs	Agicultural Droughts
	Brad Rippey and Ray Motha
	U.S. Department of Agriculture
15:50 hrs	Coffee/Tea Break
16:10 hrs	Hydrological Droughts
	Manoj Khanna
	Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), India
16:30 hrs	Hydrological Droughts
	Dasarath Jayasuriya
	Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
16:50 hrs	Discussion
17:20 hrs	Adjournment

 

THURSDAY, 10 DECEMBER 2009

08:30 hrs	US Drought Monitor: A Composite Index Approach
	Mark Svoboda
	National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska, USA
09:00 hrs	Comments from Drought Monitoring Panel Members
	Ray Motha
	United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), USA
	Roger Pulwarty
	NOAA, USA
09:20 hrs	The Future of Remote Sensing Applications for Drought Monitoring
	Brian Wardlow
	National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska, USA
09:50 hrs	North America Drought Monitor: A Continental Approach
	Brian Fuchs
	National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska, USA
10:20 hrs	Discussion
10:40 hrs	Tea/Coffee Break

 

11:00 hrs	Group 1: Meteorological Droughts
	Group 2: Agricultural Droughts
	Group 3: Hydrological Drought
12:30 hrs	Lunch
14:00 hrs	Breakout sessions continue
15:30 hrs	Tea/Coffee Break
17:00 hrs	Adjournment
18:00 hrs	Reception and Dinner at the Natural History Museum University of Nebraska (hosted by the Vice-Chancellor for Research and Economic Development)

 

FRIDAY, 11 DECEMBER 2009

08:30 hrs	Presentation of Reports of Breakout Groups
	Group 1: Meteorological Droughts
	Group 2: Agricultural Droughts
	Group 3: Hydrological Drought
10:00 hrs	Tea/Coffee Break

 

10:30 hrs	Comments from Panel Members
11:00 hrs	Discussion
12:00 hrs	Lunch

 

14:00 hrs	Workshop Declaration
14:10 hrs	Vote of Thanks
	M.V.K. Sivakumar
	World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Switzerland
14:20 hrs	Vote of Thanks
	Mike Hayes
	School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska
14:30 hrs	Workshop closure
	Prem Paul
	Vice-Chancellor for Research and Economic Development, University of Nebraska