Environmental Information Bridge
The Road to Wisdom
When given the right information, a community tends to make the right choices. To maximize transformation of environmental information into knowledge and hopefully wisdom, we have developed an Environmental Information Bridge. Elements include:
Our Changing Planet Our Changing Planet, a series of 90-second video productions that describe in everyday terms how environmental conditions of are our planet are changing.
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Success Stories While they are primarily focused on agriculture, some of our Success Stories describe how participating end users have helped improve their environment.
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UMAC Weather Gateway UMAC Weather Gateway, a click-and-use map that connects you to live weather stations from across the UMAC region, to get both current real-time and recent hourly meteorological conditions.
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UMAC Temp & Precip Maps UMAC Temp & Precip maps, showing both 30-year monthly averages for temperature and precipitation, as well as 100-year temperature monthly averages and warming trends across the region.
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About Drought A devastating drought in 2006, centered in North and South Dakota, gave new impetus to efforts to better predict drought onset. About Drought is a collection of new online tools that can be used by end users and researchers alike to evaluate drought conditions; nationwide, but primarily in the UMAC region.
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UMAC Environmental Atlas UMAC Environmental Atlas, a compendium of layered environmental geospatial data, presented through an easy-to-use Google Earth interface.
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