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ORGANIZATION: International Environmental Data Rescue Org.
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2023 UPDATE:Since 2018 IEDRO has fallen on pretty hard times. Significantly reduced grant funds for anything related to climate change hit us. Communication difficulties due to COVID didn't help.
But, thanks to our 23 volunteers, we have maintained our IEDRO family, meet virtually monthly and continue to do good work.
About a month ago, our crowd-sourcing website WeatherWisards.ORG was given a new capability. Our volunteers can now digitize old weather observations so they can be archived in the free and open world data base run by NOAA.
These meteorological tables on deteriorating paper have been photographed and are now in IEDRO's possession. We are loading them onto our crowd-sourcing website - WeatherWizards.ORG.
Once you register on the site you will be given one page of data. First you rotate and crop the image in the first step. The second step is to key in the parameter values, line by line. When you are done, you go on to the next page of data. THIS IS NOT EASY...but once completed, it preserves critical hydrometeorological data that would otherwise be lost forever.
The world loses over 500,000 old weather observations DAILY. When they are gone, they are gone forever. There's no backup; nothing in reserve. Please give us a few hours of your time.
You don't need any scientific background or training. You just need to copy the number values from the image of the deteriorating paper into the corresponding space using your keyboard. Although you can use the numbers at the top of the standard keyboard, if you have the 10 numeric keys found on some keyboards, and know how to use them without looking at the keys (like I have to do), you can really speed things up.
Organization: The International Environmental Data Rescue Organization (IEDRO) is a US-based, 501(C)(3) non-profit organization, 17 years old, with volunteers worldwide who rescue and digitize historic weather observations. Our efforts are endorsed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), World Bank, USAID, UNDP and other international groups concerned with the preservation and digitization of this valuable data.
Our volunteers believe rescuing and digitizing historic environmental data will do more to prevent humankind's suffering and death than any other endeavor.Only with past weather information showing us how the climate is changing, can we make the necessary preparations for the future. These data are vital for climate change and global warming research, forecasting disease spread, improving flood, mud slide and drought forecasts, and thousands of other vital uses.
We estimate that the world loses over 500,000 historic weather observations EVERY DAY!
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About International Environmental Data Rescue Org.
Location:
20 Ocean Street, Jonesport, ME 04649, US
Mission Statement
Our Mission is to find, rescue, and digitize all historical environmental data and to make those data available to the world. We assist the scientific and educational communities of mainly developing countries locate, rescue and digitize all environmental data currently at risk on perishable media and to make those digitized data freely and openly available to the world scientific and educational communities before those data are gone forever.
Description
The International Environmental Data Rescue Organization, IEDRO, is a non-profit organization that assists the scientific and educational communities of mainly developing countries to locate, rescue and digitize all their environmental data currently at risk on perishable media and to make those digitized data freely and openly available to the world scientific and educational communities before those data are lost forever.
After the US Government ceased its support to rescue and digitize these critical historic weather records, IEDRO continued the scientifically critical work as a separate non-profit endeavor using private funds mainly from charitable foundations and individuals helping us gather data to give researchers a better understanding of climate change and global warming, to help prevent starvation, improve flood and mud slide forecasts, to forecast the spread of diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and yellow fever.
Our activities include the discovery, rescue and digitization of foreign environmental data, mainly meteorological (weather) observations, now residing on paper, microfilm and microfiche and magnetic tapes.
We support scientific research and operations in meteorology, hydrology, climatology with additional support to the fields of agriculture, ornithology, oceanography, disease control, rural development, transportation, construction, disaster preparedness and especially climate change and global warming throughout the world.
CAUSE AREAS
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This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
February 26, 2023
SKILLS
- Environmental Science
- Data Entry
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 12
- Our volunteers must be concerned enough about our deteriorating environment, specifically global warming to spend at 4 hours or more per week to help us provide the critical historic data to the world's climate scientists and other researchers need.
- Our volunteers work collaboratively with each other to achieve what has been to date, fantastic results over the past 17 years.