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    2024 Annual Meeting Videos

    The 2024 DLN annual meeting included a panel session with 5 of the regions State Climatologists. You can watch that session and the Drought Academy session by visiting the events page.

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    2023 Annual Meeting

    The DLN 2023 annual meeting was held on September 27-28, 2023 at the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque.

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    What is the Southwest Drought Learning Network?

    The Southwest Drought Learning Network (DLN) links climate service providers with resource managers to increase community resilience when facing current and future drought events. Each of the five teams found in the outside circles are unique in their focus, but also work together and share opportunities with other teams. Knowledge sharing takes place between teams (which consist of climate service providers and other experts in the field) and resource managers/stakeholders with peer-to-peer learning as the focus of DLN. Past experiences, lessons learned, and availability to monitoring processes is a constant loop that increases the transfer of knowledge among teams and resources managers.

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The Drought Learning Network is a peer-to-peer knowledge exchange between climate service providers and resource managers. The main goal of the DLN is to gather and share lessons learned from drought events to improve responses to future droughts. The DLN was conceptualized as a framework for stakeholders to share experiences in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from drought to inform current and future response and mitigation actions.