Cody Knutson

University of Nebraska—Lincoln

Cody Knutson is a research professor and the Drought Planning Coordinator at the National Drought Mitigation Center, within the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. With a background in social science and water resources, his work focuses on understanding how people and systems are vulnerable to drought and collaboratively developing strategies, tools, and plans to minimize their drought risk. Knutson's worked on these activities with agricultural producers, communities, tribes, states, and national governments for more than 20 years.