Connecting People
With Nature
Wachiska Program and General Meeting —
Thursday, April 10, 7:00 p.m., Unitarian Church,
6300 A Street, and also via YouTube link: https://youtube.com/live/MDayra_UvkI?feature=share
Deb Bathke: Nebraska State Climatologist
In 2008, Dr. Deb Bathke relocated from New Mexico to join the NDMC, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s School of Natural Resources and Department of Geosciences. Bathke spent the previous three years as the assistant state climatologist in New Mexico, where she chaired the state’s Drought Monitoring Working Group. She represented New Mexico in the Climate Assessment for the Southwest program, or CLIMAS, which is one of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Regional Integrated Science Assessment programs.
Among the projects she collaborated on were adapting the Dynamic Drought Index for Basins in the Carolinas to the Southwest; implementing a western version of the AgClimate Tools developed by the Southeast Climate Consortium; and convening technical workshops on tree-ring reconstructions of streamflow.
Bathke is supervising ongoing student research on urban landscaping and drought, and is on the Program Implementation Team of the National Integrated Drought Information System. She was the lead author of the state’s 2014 climate change impact assessment, Understanding and Assessing Climate Change: Implications for Nebraska. Before working at UNL, she served as the Assistant State Climatologist for New Mexico. Originally from Ponca, Dr. Bathke is a native Nebraskan. She earned her BS and MS from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from The Ohio State University.
Join Wachiska on Thursday, April 10, at 7:00 p.m. at Lincoln’s Unitarian Church, 6300 A Street, to learn more about Dr. Deb Bathke. This free, public, in-person talk will also be live-streamed on YouTube at:
https://youtube.com/live/MDayra_UvkI?feature=share
No registration needed. This program can also be viewed at a later time. Check Wachiska’s website for links to past programs.
April 2025 Calendar of Events
April 5 Education/Outreach Committee
Return of the Thunderbirds
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Indian Center
April 10 General Meeting,
Nebraska State Climatologist
Dr. Deb Bathke
7:00 p.m., in-person meeting at Unitarian
Church and also live-streamed; no
registration needed (see link above)
April 14 Conservation Committee via Zoom, 6:30 p.m.
April 15 Newsletter Deadline, Wachiska Office, 5:00 p.m.
April 15 Board Meeting via Zoom, 7:00 p.m.
April 19 Earth Day: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Innovation Campus
April 19 Every Day is Earth Day 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Prairie Pines Nature Preserve
April 27 Arbor Day Celebration: Antelope Park
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Give Nebraska is preparing to kick off this year's
campaign.
Wachiska Audubon Society will be participating and we are fortunate to be one of the 70+ members who benefit from the 100+ public and private workplaces that allow employees to contribute to their favorite non-profits through payroll deductions.
In September 2021, the Wachiska Board adopted the National Audubon’s Statement on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion as the Chapter’s own goals:
The birds Audubon pledges to protect differ in color, size, behavior, geographical preference, and countless other ways. By honoring and celebrating the equally remarkable diversity of the human species, Audubon will bring new creativity, effectiveness and leadership to our work throughout the hemisphere.
Wachiska Audubon Society's vision is to share the experience and love for nature and help protect its diversity.
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Join friends and neighbors to show your concern about our climate and our elected officials. Stop by the Wachiska office and pick up your Climate yard sign.
Signs that say “VOTE with CLIMATE in Mind” are available for $10 each. They are made of material that will hold up well to the elements and come with a metal holder to push into the ground. You are encouraged to put your signs out now for the fall elections. Since they are so durable, they could easily last three or four years even if kept out all year.
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