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Managing Drought Webinars on SCIPP’s YouTube Channel

The Managing Drought in the Southern Plains webinars are located on SCIPP’s YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/SCIPP01. The webinars are posted on YouTube shortly after the webinars take place. The PDFs of the power point presentations are posted on the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) Drought Portal, www.drought.gov, in the Southern Plains section. 2-page PDF summaries

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SCIPP Program Manager Participates in Webinar on Climate Change and National Security

Dr. Lynne Carter, SCIPP program manager on the LSU campus, paneled a discussion conducted by the Security and Sustainability Forum July 21, 2011. The webinar titled Adaptation in a Changing Climate and its Impacts on National Security was the first of a five part series addressing the connections between climate change and its affects on

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How Louisiana is Experiencing Drought and Flood at the Same Time

Louisiana residents are experiencing a most interesting time in history. We are having both flood AND drought at the same time. While the Mississippi River reaches flood levels not seen since 1973, the State of Louisiana is also experiencing drought. With the Morganza and Bonnet Carre’ floodways flowing like raging torrents to remove water from

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SCIPP held Climate Adaptation Meeting on May 10th

The Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program and Oklahoma Climatological Survey hosted a climate adaptation meeting on May 10th at the National Weather Center in Norman, OK. Participants included representatives from various state, local, tribal, federal, and non-profit organizations across Oklahoma. Click on the links below to see some of the material that was presented at

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Historic April 27, 2011 Tornado Outbreak Affects Much of the U.S.

The catastropic severe weather events that occurred yesterday, April 27, 2011, are a harsh reminder of the power of mother nature and will be remembered for generations to come. Although much information regarding the number of tornadoes, intensities, injuries, and deaths is still being documented, preliminary information (as of April 28, 2011) suggest that this

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Texas Fires Assessed from Space

So far in 2011, more than 1.4 million acres have burned in Texas. Some 800 fires have occurred throughout the state, burning 401 structures and costing two firefighters their lives. Why is fire activity so extreme in Texas this year? This image, made with data collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s

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Drought Conditions Continue to Deteriorate Across the South Central U.S.

The latest weekly Drought Monitor from the National Drought Mitigation Center was released today (March 24), and it’s not a pretty picture for the south central U.S. (see image below). Though drought conditions have been occurring across portions of the south since the spring of 2010 (especially in Louisiana), drought conditions have been expanding in

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