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National Drought Mitigation Center

Research points to humans’ role in drought

February 22, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Donald A. Wilhite founded the National Drought Mitigation Center at UNL in 1995.

Drought center to celebrate 20th anniversary

November 23, 2015

UNL's Jinsong Huang is leading the UNL portion of a multi-university solar panel project funded by the National Science Foundation.

Achievements | Honors, awards, publications for Aug. 21-27

August 28, 2015

Erickson retirement reception is Sept. 1

August 25, 2015

Innovation Campus to host Aug. 27 'Envirorun'

August 14, 2015

Assembled for hands-on training on producing the Wind River Climate and Drought Summary were, from left, Rollin Ware, Natalie Umphlett, Al C’Bearing, Crystal Stiles, Kenneth Ferris, Martha Shulski, Mark Svoboda, Nicole Wall and Brian Fuchs.

Researchers help tribes enhance drought and climate resilience

July 28, 2015

A figure from "Development of a Long-Term Serially Complete Dataset of U.S. Temperatures and Precipitation for Climate Services," which was published in the Journal of Service Climatology in early 2015.

Researchers develop serially complete climate dataset

June 8, 2015

John P. Holdren, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the chief science adviser to President Obama, participates in a May 6 climate roundtable at Hardin Hall. UNL's Ronnie Green is at right.

Obama science adviser highlights climate initiatives during UNL visit

May 6, 2015

The Morocco Composite Drought Index for January 2015 shows drought in the country’s northern edge, along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

Researchers collaborate with Morocco on drought index

March 25, 2015

NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive mission features an orbiting observatory that will measure water content of the top two inches of soil that is not frozen. UNL researchers are among the first to access data from the project.

NASA project includes UNL drought researchers

January 26, 2015

The new Drought Risk Atlas lets users access drought-related data and visualizations for more than 3,000 climate stations across the country.

Online atlas analyzes local drought history

March 31, 2014

Tsegaye Tadesse, center, with a farmer and son at an irrigation demonstration site near Harbu, Ethiopia.

Tadesse leads $1.6M NASA project to predict drought, flood in Africa

March 19, 2014