How Advances in Tech and Research Could Help Battle Future Drought

September 9, 2014

UT Professor Zong-Liang Yang was at a conference on extreme weather in the Netherlands. It was 2012, just one year after the worst single-year drought in Texas history. When it came to discussing extreme weather, Texas seemed like a good place to be.  He suggested to colleagues that their next conference should take place in the Lone Star State. Two years later, he and dozens of some of the world’s leading climate experts from 10 different countries have descended upon UT-Austin to talk about improving our ability to forecast and prepare for extreme weather.

StateImpact Texas (KUT/NPR), Sept. 9, 2014

Featuring:

Zong-Liang Yang, professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and director of the Center for Integrated Earth System Science

Michael Young, associate director for Environmental Systems and senior research scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology