1. Drought Impact Reporter
Kelly Helm Smith
Communication Specialist
National Drought Mitigation Center

3. 7,029 Impacts as of

4. Media Reports Received in 2007

5. Compare Impacts with Physical Drought

7. Searchable by location, date(s) and impact category
Archive of drought’s impacts
From media
From farmers, ranchers, government, general public, organizations
Real-time since July 2005, some older archived material

9. When you click on Wyoming …

10. When you click on Laramie County …

11. How Do People Use the Drought Impact Reporter?
As a plea for help!
“Ground-truthing” physical indicators
Policymaking

12. Plea for help from Wyoming

15. “Jack the Toad”
July 4, 2006
August 1, 2006

16. “Add an Impact”

17. Impacts vs. Indicators Indicator:
Regular people can walk across the Platte River (“low streamflow”)
Impact:
Fish & waterfowl lose habitat, species populations reduced

18. Impacts vs. Reports
Impact: Quantifiable, objectively verifiable, observable
Report: May express observations in subjective terms, showing high awareness – an early indicator!

22. Planned Feature: “Grabby Tools”

23. Planned Feature: Boundaries

24. Impact Categories
Current
Planned

25. Ways to Compare Impacts
Count Impacts
Count Categories
Impacts per square mile
Impacts per capita
Impacts over density (population per square mile)

26. Drought in 2006

27. Impacts per Square Mile, 2006

28. Impacts per Person per Sq Mi 06

29. Drought in 2007

30. Impacts per Square Mile, 2007

31. Impacts per Person per Sq Mi 07

32. Add an Impact – New & Improved!

33. New Add an Impact, continued

34. Declarations

35. Relief

36. Questions?
Robert Grace, 29 May 2004