Information Technology Guru

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We have constructed the world’s first historic weather strip chart digitizing program.

We need your help to spend a couple of hours each week to act as our Information Technology expert.
You will need to have recent IT experience either as a programmer or a designer and be familiar with all aspects of social media.

We, at IEDRO headquarters in Deale, MD know meteorology and hydrology and international programs but we need someone who can talk IT. We need someone who can help us extend our reach into social media as well as help us update our website (IEDRO.ORG) which hasn't been touched for several years. We have a German volunteer who is designing a donation web page for us but have no idea how to enter it into our website.

You can work from home and put in whatever time you can.


As a background on what we do...

We have been sending teams throughout the world locating old weather observations on paper, some dating back to the early 1800s. These teams help the local weather services photograph these records before they disappear forever and send them to us over a Google Cloud.

We then place these images on a new website called WeatherWizards.ORG...and our volunteers digitize them.

Our volunteers bring up the website on their computer, register, take a short on-line training session, and begin "to save the world".

Please understand, we are not being facetious. These old weather records, when photographed and digitized are made available to scientists throughout the world who use these records to help prevent drownings from mud slides and flash floods, better understand severe weather like hurricanes and tornados, provide farmers throughout the world with the true frequency of drought so their families won’t starve, provide researchers like those at the National Institutes of Health and the Center for Disease Control with data they can use to plot the speed and extent of airborne diseases like Malaria, Yellow Fever, Dengue Fever, the Zita virus, COVID-19 and of course, climate change etc.

We have been around for 16 years. Unfortunately 80% of our 24 volunteers are over 65 and 50% are over 70. We are intelligent and have significant education and experience in meteorology and hydrology but lack good foundations in Information Technology.

Quite frankly, we need younger energetic folks to help us get into the 21st century...before we expire.

We, and the rest of the world, really need your help. Thank you!