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.	Success Stories While they are primarily focused on agriculture, some of our Success Stories describe how participating end users have helped improve their environment.
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.	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.
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.	UMAC Environmental Atlas UMAC Environmental Atlas, a compendium of layered environmental geospatial data, presented through an easy-to-use Google Earth interface.