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Review Previous Drought Vulnerability Assessments: To begin the planning <br />process, AMEC will thoroughly review previous vulnerability assessments conducted for <br />states and municipalities. Goals include identification of drought vulnerability <br />assessments applicable or adaptable to Colorado conditions, and cataloging the data <br />required to support drought vulnerability assessment. We will use this review to begin <br />identifying likely data gaps and approaches to overcome these. <br />Kickoff and Planning Meeting: AMEC will facilitate the project kickoff and planning <br />meeting where we will introduce key team members, present information on our <br />proposed vulnerability assessment approach and options, and work with the state Water <br />Conservation and Drought Planning team to fully adapt our proposed vulnerability <br />assessment approach to the state's vision and requirements. At this meeting we will <br />also discuss project scope and schedules with a goal to optimizing the conclusion of this <br />project to support completion of the state Drought Plan, and distribute a data collection <br />guide to facilitate gathering information from the Planning Team. <br />Deliverables. <br />Timeframe; <br />✓ Preliminary project meeting <br />February 2010 <br />✓ Identification of Planning Team <br />✓ Project kickoff meeting <br />✓ Refinement of Vulnerability Assessment Methodology <br />✓ Distribution of meeting minutes <br />✓ Data Collection Guide <br />Task 2: Vulnerability Assessment <br />AMEC recognizes that the science and process of drought vulnerability assessment is <br />not well developed, and that until recently drought assessment and management has in <br />most states been largely response oriented, with little or no attention to mitigation and <br />preparedness. This creates a unique opportunity to create a new, enhanced drought <br />vulnerability assessment approach for the state that highlights drought exposure, <br />sensitivity and adaptive capacity by sector and region, including the potentially <br />exacerbating impacts of climate change. AMEC believes that development and <br />implementation of this approach has to occur in close collaboration with the state Water <br />Conservation and Drought Planning team in order that the defined methods are <br />appropriate for state planning requirements now and into the future. In this section we <br />thus present the general concept of our Vulnerability Assessment Approach, but intend <br />that we collaborate from the outset with CWCB to adapt this approach so it may meet <br />immediate state needs as well as long term goals, be flexible enough that it can function <br />under existing data constraints yet be adapted to offer greater performance as new data <br />become available. <br />With this approach in mind, AMEC has incorporated Dr. Olga Wilhelmi from NCAR into <br />our team. Dr. Olga Wilhelmi is a drought expert with specific knowledge of drought <br />vulnerability assessment. She brings state -of- the -art research knowledge regarding <br />development of methods for assessing drought vulnerability, and a practical <br />understanding of how methods can be adapted for specific physiographic conditions <br />and sectors of concern (e.g., agriculture, recreation, environment etc). Dr. Wilhelmi <br />