Deb Bathke

Deb Bathke

  • Contact Information
  • My Story
  • Publications
  • Background
  • Grants
  • Advising

Contact Information

TitleClimate Scientist | Interim State Climatologist | NDMC Education Coordinator
Faculty RankResearch Associate Professor
Address823 South Hardin Hall
3310 Holdrege Street
Lincoln NE
68583–0988
Phone
  • office: 402-472-6199
  • fax: 402-472-4915
E-maildbathke2@unl.edu
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My Story

In 2008, Dr. Bathke relocated from New Mexico to join the NDMC, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s School of Natural Resources and Department of Geosciences. Bathke spent the previous three years as the assistant state climatologist in New Mexico, where she chaired the state’s Drought Monitoring Working Group. 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

Raheem, N., Bathke, D. (2023). Incorporating ecosystem services into drought planning: Lessons from two place-based applications from the US West. Integrated Drought Management, Two Volume Set (Chapter 32 ed., vol. 2). Routledge & CRC Press
Bathke, D. (2022). U.S. Drought Monitor: April 5, 2022. Lincoln, NE: National Drought Mitigation Center, USDA, and NOAA. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/MapArchive.aspxOnline
Bathke, D. (2022). U.S. Drought Monitor: August 23, 2022. Lincoln, NE: National Drought Mitigation Center, USDA, and NOAA. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/MapArchive.aspxOnline
Bathke, D. (2022). U.S. Drought Monitor: February 8, 2022. Lincoln, NE: National Drought Mitigation Center, USDA, and NOAA. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/MapArchive.aspxOnline
Bathke, D. (2022). U.S. Drought Monitor: March 27, 2022. Lincoln, NE: National Drought Mitigation Center, USDA, and NOAA. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/MapArchive.aspxOnline
Riganit, C., Bernadt, T. K., Bathke, D., Nothwehr, J., Prendeville, H. R. (2022). Overview of Weather Water Land Sites. Lincoln, NE: National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. https://drought.unl.edu/Monitoring/OWWLS.aspxOnline
Bathke, D. (2021). U.S. Drought Monitor: April 13, 2021. Lincoln, NE: National Drought Mitigation Center, USDA, and NOAA. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/MapArchive.aspxOnline
Bathke, D. (2021). U.S. Drought Monitor: April 6, 2021. Lincoln, NE: National Drought Mitigation Center, USDA, and NOAA. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/MapArchive.aspxOnline
Bathke, D. (2021). U.S. Drought Monitor: January 5, 2021. Lincoln, NE: National Drought Mitigation Center, USDA, and NOAA. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/MapArchive.aspxOnline
Bathke, D. (2021). U.S. Drought Monitor: July 6, 2021. Lincoln, NE: National Drought Mitigation Center, USDA, and NOAA. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/MapArchive.aspxOnline
Bathke, D. (2021). U.S. Drought Monitor: June 29, 2021. Lincoln, NE: National Drought Mitigation Center, USDA, and NOAA. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/MapArchive.aspxOnline
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/10.1080/00431672.2021.1873000Online
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/10.1080/00431672.2021.1873000Online
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), 2106Online
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 mitigatOnline
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-17-0067.1Online
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, MontanOnline
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 EcologicOnline
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 ecologOnline
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, ES139Online
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 EngaOnline
Bathke, D., Bernadt, T., Fuchs, B., Svoboda, M. (in press). A Tutorial for the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Campbell, O. G., Schwartz, C., Bathke, D. (2022). When to prepare: "Water" you thinking about drought?. Lincoln, NE: National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. drought.unl.eduOnline

Background

Education

DegreeMajorInstitutionYear Awarded
Doctorate of PhilosophyAtmospheric SciencesOhio State University2004
Master of ScienceUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln1998
Bachelor of ScienceUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln1995

 

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 TitleApalachicola Chattahoochee Flint Stakeholders Drought Exercise
Starting Date02/28/2023

Investigator(s)

Ending Date04/01/2023
Funding Level$23,887.00
Funding AgencyApalachicola Chattahoochee Flint Stakeholders

 

Grant TitleLower Platte Drought Consortium Tabletop Exercise
Starting Date08/19/2021

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2022
Funding Level$8,262.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Department of Natural Resources

 

Grant TitleAn Extension Guidebook to Help Communities Plan for Drought using Scenario Based Exercises
Starting Date03/31/2021

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/29/2022
Funding Level$8,051.00
Funding AgencyPurdue University

 

Grant TitleA Multi-Spatial Approach to Monitoring Forage Characteristics of Western US Grasslands
Starting Date10/01/2020

Investigator(s)

Ending Date08/16/2021
Funding Level$84,999.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of Interior - Geological Survey

 

Grant TitleUSDA Support of the US Drought Monitor and Hub Activities
Starting Date10/01/2020

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2023
Funding Level$2,375,000.00
Funding AgencyUS Deparment of Agriculture - OCE

 

Grant TitleDrought Information Services and Research for Ag across the US
Starting Date09/30/2020

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/29/2021
Funding Level$800,000.00
Funding AgencyUS Deparment of Agriculture - OCE

 

Grant TitleUS Drought Portal Operaions and Development Support
Starting Date09/01/2020

Investigator(s)

Ending Date03/01/2021
Funding Level$150,000.00
Funding AgencyNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

 

Grant TitleDrought Planning for the Republican River Basin
Starting Date08/17/2020

Investigator(s)

Ending Date05/31/2022
Funding Level$89,810.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Department of Natural Resources

 

Grant TitleMENAdrought Empowering and Enhancing Drought Management Systems in the Middle East-North Africa Region (Additional Funding)
Starting Date08/10/2020

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2020
Funding Level$119,483.00
Funding AgencyWater Management Institute

 

Grant TitleProviding Drought Information Services for the Nation: the National Drought Mitigation Center (Additional Funding)
Starting Date08/01/2020

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2021
Funding Level$808,530.00
Funding AgencyNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

 

Grant TitleProviding Drought Risk Management Services for the World Bank
Starting Date05/29/2020

Investigator(s)

Ending Date03/24/2021
Funding Level$199,994.00
Funding AgencyWorld Bank Group

 

Grant TitleExtension Guidebook to Help Communities Plan for Drought
Starting Date02/29/2020

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2020
Funding Level$14,897.00
Funding AgencyUniversity of Wisconsin Extension

 

Grant TitleExtension Guidebook
Starting Date10/01/2019

Investigator(s)

Ending Date08/31/2020
Funding Level$24,671.00
Funding AgencyUSDA - NIFA

 

Grant TitleDrought Information Services for Agriculture across the United States (Additional Funding)
Starting Date09/30/2019

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/29/2020
Funding Level$833,384.00
Funding AgencyUSDA-OCE

 

Grant TitleProviding Drought Information Services for the Nation: the National Drought Mitigation Center
Starting Date09/01/2019

Investigator(s)

Ending Date08/31/2021
Funding Level$791,470.00
Funding AgencyNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Association

 

Grant TitleNIDIS Help Desk Support AWR FY20 (Additional Funding)
Starting Date09/01/2019

Investigator(s)

Ending Date08/31/2020
Funding Level$150,000.00
Funding AgencyNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Association

 

Grant TitleUSAID MENAdrought
Starting Date06/03/2019

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2021
Funding Level$1,222,118.00
Funding AgencyIWMI

 

Grant TitleMENA Regional Drought Management (Additional Funding)
Starting Date05/20/2019

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2019
Funding Level$478,800.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Environmental Trust

 

Grant TitleDrought Impacts on Grasslands
Starting Date03/15/2019

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/14/2019
Funding Level$84,995.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of Interior - GS

 

Grant TitleNOAA High Plains Regional Climate Center (additional funding)
Starting Date09/01/2018

Investigator(s)

Ending Date08/31/2019
Funding Level$211,552.00
Funding AgencyDepartment of Commerce

 

Grant TitleSpotty Rain Champaign: Enhancing the Capacity for Rural Libraries to Engage the Public in Drought Science, Monitoring and Adaptation
Starting Date07/15/2018

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2020
Funding Level$14,280.00
Funding AgencyOklahoma State University

 

Grant TitleNIDIS Portal Assistance (Additional Funding)
Starting Date09/01/2017

Investigator(s)

Ending Date08/31/2018
Funding Level$150,000.00
Funding AgencyNOAA

 

Grant TitleNP NRD Drought Tournament
Starting Date10/25/2016

Investigator(s)

Ending Date10/24/2017
Funding Level$5,823.00
Funding AgencyNorth Platte NRD

 

Grant TitleDrought Information Services for Agriculture across the United States (Additional Funding)
Starting Date10/01/2016

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2017
Funding Level$827,501.00
Funding AgencyUSDA - OCE

 

Grant TitleNIDIS Portal Assistance
Starting Date09/01/2016

Investigator(s)

Ending Date08/31/2017
Funding Level$150,000.00
Funding AgencyNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

 

Grant TitleProviding Drought Information Services for the Nation: the National Drought Mitigation Center
Starting Date06/01/2015

Investigator(s)

Ending Date05/31/2018
Funding Level$798,885.00
Funding AgencyNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

 

Grant TitleDrought Risk Management for the United States
Starting Date09/01/2014

Investigator(s)

Ending Date08/31/2015
Funding Level$693,696.00
Funding AgencyUniversity of Oklahoma (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

 

Grant TitleNOAA High Plains Regional Climate Center
Starting Date12/31/2011

Investigator(s)

Ending Date03/31/2013
Funding Level$829,888.00
Funding AgencyNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

 

Grant TitleDrought Monitor
Starting Date10/01/2010

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2013
Funding Level$558,401.00
Funding AgencyAgriculture and Food Research Initiative/National Institute of Food and Agriculture

 

Advising

Graduate Programs

Master of Applied Science

Master of Science in Natural Resource Sciences
including specializations in

  • Bio-Atmospehric Interactions

Doctorate of Philosophy in Natural Resource Sciences
including specializations in

  • Bio-Atmospehric Interactions