Join Conservation Nebraska at the Nebraska History Museum to hear from Dr. Qi S. Hu as he shares his current research examining how land changes over time and uses the historical Dust Bowl disaster as a case study. Dr. Hu’s prolific research proposes using events from the past to better care for our land and our planet by identifying processes and practices that magnified the drought that occurred not so long ago.
The North American Dust Bowl drought during the 1930s had devastating environmental and societal impacts. This study uses high-resolution modeling experiments and quantifies an effect on enhancing and prolonging the drought by the particular Great Plains land-cover in the 1930s, as a consequence of decades of exploitation of the land for production. Dr. Hu will share his findings, results, and analysis of the study.
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About Dr. Hu
Dr. Qi S. Hu earned his PhD degree in Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University in 1992. Dr. Hu worked as a Research Assistant Professor at University of Missouri-Columbia from 1995-99 and also served as the Director of the Missouri Climate Center and the Missouri State Climatologist. He came to the School of Natural Resources of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1999. He earned his full professorship at UNL in 2009. Dr. Hu served as an Editor of the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology from 2002-22, and has been the Editor-in-Chief of JAMC since 2023.
