Ecological drought in the United States - synthesis workshop

Participants at the synthesis workshop held at SESYNC in Annapolis, MD with USGS and IANA recent workshop in June 2017 represented the culmination of almost two years of work by Simon Costanzo, Brianne Walsh, and Bill Dennison with the United States Geological Survey, summarizing the status of ecological drought science across the United States. This synthesis workshop was hosted by the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) in Annapolis, Maryland, with representatives from eight Climate Science Centers which are part of the U.S. Department of the Interior, and where IAN had conducted workshops at each beginning in 2015. The objectives of this final workshop were to 1) synthesize our findings from those eight individual workshops into a synthesis newsletter, 2) develop a synthesis paper for publication, and 3) generate a paper outlining emerging trends in the ecological drought in the United States.