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Released in conjunction with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals, the Custom Climatology Tool developed at the High Plains Regional Climate Center allows users to examine average monthly and annual temperature measurements over customizable periods of time. The data is collected from thousands of U.S. weather stations.

Climate center develops tool to accompany release of new Climate Normals

May 4, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

A still from a GoPro camera mounted in a helicopter shows a band of pronghorn running across western Nebraska rangeland. Earlier this year, researchers captured 80 pronghorn and placed GPS radio collars on them. The released pronghorn will be tracked over two years to provide fine-scale information about their survival and movement across the Nebraska Panhandle and anywhere else they roam.

Collaborative study tracks pronghorn in Panhandle

April 15, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Cattle graze on the Diamond Bar Ranch north of Stapleton in June 2020. The Sandhills are threatened by the encroachment of eastern red cedar and other woody species, according to Craig Allen, a professor in Nebraska’s School of Natural Resources.

Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes up and running

April 14, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Groundwater levels rose significantly across most of Nebraska from January 2019 to January 2020, according to the recently released 2020 Nebraska Groundwater-Level Report. The rain, snow and ice surpluses from 2019 were reflected in thousands of well measurements taken across much of the state in early 2020.

Groundwater levels were up significantly in early 2020, report shows

April 8, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Husker researchers Steven Thomas, Jessica Corman, Katie Anania and Jennifer Clarke are leading a $6 million multi-institutional project to build a database that will enable scientists to track the changing ecology of waterways across the U.S. Pictured at Holmes Lake in Lincoln, the Nebraska team members were photographed individually to create a composite photo.

Husker team leading $6M project to study waterways’ changing ecology

February 16, 2021

Science & Technology

U.S. Drought Monitor

National Drought Mitigation Center enters into three-year USDA agreement

December 16, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

From left, Aaron Mittelstet, Troy Gilmore, Mikaela Cherry and Didier Gatsmana sample groundwater in the Little Blue Natural Resources District near Hastings in July 2018. A recent study from Cherry, doctoral candidate in the School of Natural Resources, and colleagues found that winter precipitation reloads most of the state’s groundwater supply.

Research helps define groundwater recharge in Nebraska

May 22, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Pockets of southwestern Nebraska and the Panhandle saw minor groundwater level declines, but the latest Groundwater-Level Monitoring Report shows a wealth of increases in groundwater supply across the rest of the state from spring 2018 to spring 2019. On average, wells measured in spring 2019 saw a 2.63-foot increase in groundwater levels statewide.

Nebraska groundwater levels rise following wet year

April 21, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Ethan Freese

Platte Basin Timelapse project continues to inspire grad student

April 10, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Cory Forbes

Forbes leads development of food-energy-water nexus network

April 9, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Jesse Korus, Matt Joeckel and Shane Tucker have worked to document and describe, via drone footage and computer modeling, the Haystack Mountain conglomerate in the Wildcat Ridge in Western Nebraska.

Ancient flooding formed, left behind boulders in Wildcat Ridge

March 12, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Researchers net crucial estimate of white shark survival

July 23, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

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