Improving the Application of Science 
in Western Drought Management & Planning

Western Governors' Association / U.S. Geological Survey / International Boundary Water Commission

March 11-12, 2004 
Tempe Mission Palms Hotel

AGENDA

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

BREAKOUT GROUP NOTES

PRESENTATIONS 

• Phil Pasteris, NRCS 
• Douglas Le Comte, NOAA-Climate Prediction Center 
• Senator Herb Guenther, Director, Arizona Department of Water Resources 
• Martin Hoerling, NOAA--CDC, "Explaining 20th Century Southwest US Precipitation Trends, and Future Projections" 
• Greg McCabe, USGS-WRD, "Decadal-Scale Variability & Hydroclimatology of Drought" 
• Julio Betancourt, USGS, "Historical Context of Severe Drought" -- handout
• Connie Woodhouse, NOAA-NCDC, "Application of Paleoclimatic Data to Drought Assessments" 
• Susan Avery, Director of CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder 
• Jose Salas, Colorado State University, "Probabilistic Models and their Implementation for Drought Prediction" 
• Mark Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center, "Drought Prediction, Indicators, and Early Warning" 
• Craig Allen, USGS-BRD, "Ecological and Landscape Responses to Severe Drought" 
• Don Wilhite, National Drought Mitigation Center, "Drought Management in the West" 
• Anne Watkins, NM Office of the State Engineer & Tim Darden, NM Ag Dept. 
• Jesse Aber, MT Governors' Drought Advisory Committee 
• Neal Fujii, Hawaii State Drought Plan Coordinator 
• Derek Arndt, Oklahoma Mesonet/Oklahoma Climatological Survey 
• Shaun McGrath, WGA, "National Drought Preparedness Act of 2003 & National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) "