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Hydrochemistry Of Wetlands Along The Platte River Near Ashland, Nebraska, Carrie L. Wiese

School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

No abstract provided.

Water Current, Volume 40, No. 4, Fall 2008

Water Current Newsletter

2009 Tour looks at San Francisco Bay-Delta Area
Meet the Faculty: Haishun Yang, Charles A. Shapiro
When Water Meets Money Topic of Conference
From the Director: Biofuels, Trends in Impacts on Water Demand, Supply and Quality
Nebraska Water Map Illustrates State Water Issues
Fourteen Lectures in UNL’s Spring Semester Water Series
How Human Pharmaceuticals Threaten Water Quality: A Primer on Emerging Contaminants, Part Two
Decommissioning Out-Of-Service Water Wells to Protect Water Quality
IANR/Extension Adopts “Water” Theme for 2008 Husker Harvest Days Show at Grand Island
2008 Water Colloquium, Oct. 16, 2008, UNL Hardin Hall, Lincoln
Water Resources Advisory Panel Updates …

Droughtscape- Fall 2008, Kelly Smith

Droughtscape, Quarterly Newsletter of NDMC, 2007-

Washington Workshops Scheduled for November

Look for Warm West, Rainy Gulf, Easing Drought

New Drought Monitor Authors Profiled

Drought Impact Awareness Growing: Weather Forecast Offices, Geographers Highlight Issue

NDMC Takes on New Projects

Hundreds+ See NDMC at Ag Trade Show

NDMC Welcomes New Employees

Droughtscape- Fall 2008, Kelly Smith

Droughtscape, Quarterly Newsletter of NDMC, 2007-

Washington Workshops Scheduled for November

Look for Warm West, Rainy Gulf, Easing Drought

New Drought Monitor Authors Profiled

Drought Impact Awareness Growing: Weather Forecast Offices, Geographers Highlight Issue

NDMC Takes on New Projects

Hundreds+ See NDMC at Ag Trade Show

NDMC Welcomes New Employees

The Near East Drought Planning Manual: Guidelines For Drought Mitigation And Preparedness Planning, National Drought Mitigation Center

National Drought Mitigation Center: Publications

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Drought Planning.............................................1

1.1 Effects of Drought in the Near East Region........................................................1

1.2 New Emphasis on Proactive Drought Planning .................................................. 3

1.3 Integration of Drought Planning and Sustainable Development ......................... 3

2. Explanation of Drought Concepts..............................................................5

2.1 Definitions ........................................................................................................ 5

2.2 The Nature of Drought ...................................................................................... 7

2.3 The Effects of Drought ...................................................................................... 7

3. HowtoDevelopaDroughtPlan.....................................................................................9

Step 1: Creating Political Momentum and Authority................................................9

Step 2: Coordinating Strategic Drought Planning .................................................. 12

Step 3: Fostering Involvement and Developing Common Understandings .............. 15

Step 4: Investigating Drought Monitoring, Risk, and Management Options............ 16

Step 5: Writing a …

Water Current, Volume 40, No. 3, Summer 2008

Water Current Newsletter

Latest on Water Science, Economics and Law at October Colloquium
Water is Theme for UNL at September's Husker Harvest Days
From the Director: What I Didn't Do During My Summer Vacation
Meet the Faculty: Jinsheng You, Gary L. Stone
Water.unl.edu Gateway to All Things Water
Water Resources Advisory Panel Expands; Members to Reconvene in September
Agricultural Water Management Network
UNL and China Explore
Hydroinformatics Collaboratory
Water and Climate Change: Perfect Storm in Sight
2008 Water and Natural Resources Tour: Republican River Basin of Kansas and Nebraska
Water Brief News
A Primer on Emerging Contaminants
What's New at the Water Sciences …

Nebraska Water Map

Literature from The Nebraska Water Center

Nebraska Water is a full-color, 24"x36" poster, that is appropriate for educational use. The information presented on the maps is the best available as of July 2008. The content and level of detail of each map is based on available space and map scale.

Droughtscape- Summer 2008, Kelly Smith

Droughtscape, Quarterly Newsletter of NDMC, 2007-

VegDRI Expands West

Spring Rains Ease Drought But CA Still Dry

Scholar Donates Books

NDMC Welcomes Employees Bathke, Nothwehr

Latest Workshop Info Up

State Lawmakers to Focus on Drought Planning

Decadal Variation -- Clues to Droughts and Floods?

Nebraska Water (Map/Poster)

Nebraska Water Center: Faculty Publications

A 36" x 24" poster including topographical and watershed map of the state of Nebraska and inset maps showing:
Density of Active Registered Irrigation Wells - January 2008
Groundwater-Level Changes - Predevelopment to Spring 2007
Generalized Nitrate Levels in Wells Sampled, 1974 - 2006
Mean Annual Precipitation, 1971 - 2000 and Generalized Gaining/Losing Streams
DNR Designated Hydrologically-Connected Fully and Overappropriated Basins, Subbasins and Reaches, July 2008
River Basins with Coldwater and Warmwater Stream Designations
Generalized Atrazine Levels in Wells Sampled, 1974 - 2006
Threatened and Endangered Waterbirds and Fish
High Plains Aquifer, Saturated Thickness, 1997
Estimated Water Use in Nebraska …

Impacts Of Human Physical Disturbance Of Benthic Communities In Tributaries Of The Niobrara National Scenic River, Kimberly D. Laing

School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

No abstract provided.

Preferences For Rural Amenities In Lancaster County, K. Koehler-Cole

School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

No abstract provided.

Water Current, Volume 40, No. 2, Spring 2008

Water Current Newsletter

UNL/OSU Researchers Try Promising Technique to Remove Groundwater Contamination
Water and Natural Resources Tour in June
From the Director: USGS Climate Change Research, a Critical Partnership in the Making
Meet the Faculty: Gary L. Zoubek, Paul C. Hay
Herpel Joins Water Center Staff as Outreach Specialist
Scholarship Honors Water Center's First Permanent Director
Storing a Safe Emergency Drinking Water Supply
A Long-Term Perspective on Drought
History in the Great Plains
Water Center History Books Available
Earthworms Contain Chemicals from Households and Animal Manure
UNL Researchers Determine Costs of Producing Switchgrass for Ethanol
Water Quality Challenges in the Great Plains
Water …

Droughtscape- Spring 2008, Kelly Smith

Droughtscape, Quarterly Newsletter of NDMC, 2007-

San Angelo, April 24

Winter Sees Little Change in U.S. Drought

News Stories Reveal Array of Mitigation Strategies

NIDIS Wants You!

Sea Surface Temperatures Can Help Predict Drought

About DroughtScape

Recent Travels

Water Current ,Volume 40, No. 1, Winter 2008

Water Current Newsletter

Water Quality Subject of Fifth Water Law, Policy and Science Conference By Steve Ress
Water Center History nears Completion By Steve Ress
A Wake-up Call on Climate Change
Meet the Faculty
Planning Begins for June Tour of Republican River Basin By Steve Ress
LB 701: Is it an Answer to Nebraska’s Republican River Problems? By Katherine Kalisek-Vogel
Griffin Named Groundwater Foundation President
Jackson Joins Water Center as Intern
Spring Seminars Continue Through April 16
Nebraska DNR Sponsors Modeling Group Meetings By Steve Ress
Nebraska’s Current Top 10 Water Challenges
ENWRA: Accessing Groundwater Resources in Eastern Nebraska By Julie Wragge
Ethanol …

Multi-Ideal-Adic Completions Of Noetherian Rings, William J. Heinzer, Christel Rotthaus, Sylvia Wiegand

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

Let R be a commutative ring with identity. A filtration on R is a decreasing sequence {In}∞ n=0 of ideals of R. Associated to a filtration is a well-defined completion R ∗ = l←i−mn R/In and a canonical homomorphism ψ : R → R ∗ [13, Chap. 9]. If ∞ n=0 In = (0), then ψ is injective and R may be regarded as a subring of R ∗ [13, p. 401]. In the terminology of Northcott, a filtration {In}∞ n=0 is multiplicative if I0 = R and InIm ⊆ In+m for all m ≥ 0 and n ≥ 0 …

Droughtscape- Winter 2008, Kelly Smith

Droughtscape, Quarterly Newsletter of NDMC, 2007-

Now Up & On-Line:

Winter 2008 Outlook and Oct.-Dec. ’07 Summary

NDMC Experts Serve as Resource for Media

Drought Hits Ag and Urban Interests in 2007

Climatological Summary of Drought in 2007

NDMC Welcomes Data Miner Bo Zhang

New Grant Awards

Sampling Of Malodorous Compounds In Air Using Stir Bar Sorbtive Extraction, John H. Loughrin, Nanh Lovanh, Arturo I. Quintanar, Rezaul Mahmood

HPRCC Personnel Publications

Twisters, (poly)‐dimethylsiloxane‐coated magnetic stir bars, were used to measure compounds typical of swine manure malodor in air. In initial experiments, a time to achieve equilibrium was determined by preloading the stir bars with ten compounds with a range of volatilities and polarities and then monitoring their loss. The rate of loss was dependent on compound volatility, and the time for equilibrium to be attained varied widely, from 22 min for phenol to 210 min for skatole. To test whether the Twisters would respond linearly over a range of concentrations, the stir bars were placed in vented jars with solutions of …

Evaluation Of Modis Ndvi And Ndwi For Vegetation Drought Monitoring Using Oklahoma Mesonet Soil Moisture Data, Yingxin Gu, Eric Hunt, Brian Wardlow, Jeffrey B. Basara, Jesslyn F. Brown, James P. Verdin

Drought Mitigation Center: Faculty Publications

The evaluation of the relationship between satellitederived vegetation indices (normalized difference vegetation index and normalized difference water index) and soil moisture improves our understanding of how these indices respond to soil moisture fluctuations. Soil moisture deficits are ultimately tied to drought stress on plants. The diverse terrain and climate of Oklahoma, the extensive soil moisture network of the Oklahoma Mesonet, and satellitederived indices from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provided an opportunity to study correlations between soil moisture and vegetation indices over the 2002–2006 growing seasons. Results showed that the correlation between both indices and the fractional water index …

The History Of The Unl Water Center From 1964, Water Center, School Of Natural Resources

Literature from The Nebraska Water Center

Water is an integral part of Nebraska’s economy and well being in a state that depends on an adequate supply for all uses, including agricultural, municipal, industrial, recreational and wildlife habitat.

Nebraska is fortunate with regard to its water supply, having tremendous groundwater reserves which are estimated to be in excess of two billion acrefeet (an acre-foot being enough water to cover one acre of land with a foot of water, or approximately 325,000 gallons), combined with an estimated annual precipitation of 86 million acre-feet and annual average surface water inflows of 1.7 million acre-feet, give the state adequate supplies …

Detection, Occurrence And Fate Of Emerging Contaminants In Agricultural Environments (2008), Daniel D. Snow, Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt, Samuel E. Saunders, Shannon L. Devivo, David A. Cassada

Nebraska Water Center: Faculty Publications

Agricultural settings are affected by a unique set of environmental contaminants typically associated with land use. Nutrients and sediments from run-off and erosion have historically been, and continue to be, studied and understood with respect to their impacts to aquatic environments. Studies involving newer classes of contaminants, such as pharmaceuticals and steroids, are becoming more prevalent as methods for measuring these compounds become available. These “emerging” contaminants clearly have potential to enter the environment and cause known or suspected adverse ecological or human health effects. Release of these contaminants to the environment has occurred for quite some time, but methods …

The Vegetation Drought Response Index (Vegdri): A New Integrated Approach For Monitoring Drought Stress In Vegetation, Jesslyn F. Brown, Brian D. Wardlow, Tsegaye Tadesse, Michael Hayes, Bradley C. Reed

Drought Mitigation Center: Faculty Publications

The development of new tools that provide timely, detailed-spatial-resolution drought information is essential for improving drought preparedness and response. This paper presents a new method for monitoring drought-induced vegetation stress called the Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI). VegDRI integrates traditional climate-based drought indicators and satellite-derived vegetation index metrics with other biophysical information to produce a 1 km map of drought conditions that can be produced in near-real time. The initial VegDRI map results for a 2002 case study conducted across seven states in the north-central United States illustrates the utility of VegDRI for improved large-area drought monitoring.