| Organized and Sponsored by | Office of the Chief Economist, USDA Climate Prediction Center, NOAA and Environmental Science and Technology Center,George Mason University |
| Hosted by | Environmental Science and Technology Center, George Mason University |
| Participating Organizations | National Drought Mitigation Center Office of the Chief Economist, USDA Climate Prediction Center, NOAA National Climatic Data Center, NOAA |
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 8:30 - 8:45 am | Opening Remarks | Peter Stearns, Provost, GMU |
| 8:45 - 9:15 am | Keynote Address | Laura Furgione, DOC/NOAA Deputy Assistant Administrator for Weather Services and Deputy Director of the NWS |
| 9:15 - 9:45 am | Keynote Address | Brandon Willis, USDA/FSA Deputy Administrator for Farm Programs |
| 9:45 - 10:00 am | Welcome and Information |
Brad Rippey, USDA/OCE and David Miskus, NOAA/NWS/CPC |
| 10:00 - 10:20 am | Refreshment Break | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 am | Making of the USDM | Mark Svoboda, NDMC |
| 10:40 - 11:00 am | USDM: Live Demo | David Miskus, CPC |
| Drought Center Updates | ||
| 11:00 - 11:20 am | GIS Update from USDA | Eric Luebehusen, USDA |
| 11:20 - 11:40 am | Update from NWS/CPC | Matt Rosencrans, NOAA/NWS/CPC |
| 11:40 am - noon | NIDIS Update from NCDC | Michael Brewer, NOAA/NCDC |
| Noon - 1:20 pm | Lunch (on your own) | |
| 1:20 - 1:40 pm | NDMC: New and Improved National Drought Atlas | Brian Fuchs, NDMC |
| 1:40 - 2:00 pm | Update from DRI/WRCC | Laura Edwards, DRI/WRCC |
| 2:00 - 2:20 pm | Pacific Islands Update | Kevin Kodama, NOAA/NWS |
| A Broader View of Drought Monitoring | ||
| 2:20 - 2:40 pm | New Challenges of Soil/Vegetation Moisture Monitoring from Space | John Qu, GMU/ESTC |
| 2:40 - 3:00 pm | Synergism Between Shortwave, Infrared, and Passive Microwave Sensors to Improve Estimates of Soil Moisture Content | Raymond Hunt, USDA/ARS |
| 3:00 - 3:20 pm | Refreshment Break | |
| 3:20 - 3:40 pm | Emerging Techniques for Synoptic and High Spatial Resolution Modeling and Monitoring of Drought | Graeme Aggett, AMEC |
| 3:40 - 4:00 pm | NIDIS ACF Basin Pilot | Keith Ingram, Southeast Climate Consortium |
| 4:00 - 5:00 pm | Open Discussion | |
| 5:00 pm | Adjournment | |
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| State/Regional Drought Responses | ||
| 8:30 - 8:40 am | Welcome and Information | Brad Rippey, USDA |
| 8:40 - 9:20 am |
NIDIS Assessment of the Upper Colorado Basin CoCoRaHS Update |
Wendy Ryan, Colorado State University |
| 9:20 - 9:40 am | Coordinated NC Response | Curtis Weaver, USGS North Carolina Water Science Center |
| 9:40 - 10:00 am | FL Unified Assessment | David Zierden, FL State Climatologist |
| 10:00 - 10:20 am | Refreshment Break | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 am | The Land That Drought Forgot | John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas State Climatologist |
| 10:40 - 11:00 am | Drought Monitoring Activities at the Southern Regional Climate Center | Luigi Romolo, Southern RCC |
| 11:00 - 11:20 am | Drought Monitoring at the Northeast RCC | Keith Eggleston, Northeast RCC |
| 11:20 - 11:40 am | VegDRI | Brian Wardlow, NDMC |
| 11:40 am - noon | NDMC: New and Improved Drought Impact Reporter | Mark Svoboda, NDMC |
| Noon - 1:20 pm | Lunch (on your own) | |
| Miscellaneous Drought Topics | ||
| 1:20 - 1:40 pm | NLDAS and Drought Monitoring | Kingtse Mo, CPC |
| 1:40 - 2:00 pm | GRACE: Monitoring Groundwater Response to Drought | Matt Rodell, NASA/GSFC |
| 2:00 - 2:20 pm | Potential USDM Usage | Adriana Kocornik-Mina, DOE |
| 2:20 - 2:40 pm | Canadian Update | Trevor Hadwen, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada |
| 2:40 - 3:00 pm | Refreshment Break | |
| 3:00 - 5:00 pm | Open Discussion and/or Ask the USDM Author | Moderator: Kelly Redmond, DRI/WRCC |
| 5:00 pm | Adjournment | |