By Emily Case-Buskirk | National Drought Mitigation Center
Two representatives from NASA have joined the team of U.S. Drought Monitor authors.
The monitor is hosted by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and produced through a partnership between the drought center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and now NASA.
The new authors are Ben Cook, with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University, and Jonathan Case, with the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and the University of Alabama-Huntsville.
“Since the inception of the U.S. Drought Monitor in 1999, it has been a uniquely collaborative product,” said Mark Svoboda, director of the drought center. “We are very excited about this partnership, which marks a new step in joint efforts between NASA and the Drought Monitor authoring team.”
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