Press Release April 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Geoff Love, Ph.D., international expert in climate change, joins IEDRO’s Board of Directors Deale, Maryland – Ms. Janet Sansone, Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Environmental Data Rescue Organization (IEDRO), has announced the election of Dr. Geoff Love to IEDRO’s Board of Directors. IEDRO’s mission […]
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IEDRO Annual Report 2015
March 25, 2016
From Deale, Maryland to El Salvador and Niamey, Niger to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, IEDRO’s efforts to rescue and digitize the worlds historic meteorological data before they’re lost forever has only continued to gain in momentum and necessity. IEDRO’s Annual Report for 2015 offers a sneak peek into how and why we do what we do, and what the future is looking […]
IEDRO Newsletter – August 2015
November 28, 2015
Monthly Newsletter August 2015 Climate: Around the World From the United States to Greenland, Paris, Scotland, and India, the world is actively partaking in the discussion of climate change. Below is a curated list of articles that popped up on IEDRO’s radar throughout the month. Check out what’s being discussed and let us know which article […]
Dr. Teddy Allen attends CariCOF where CPT is used to calculate regional & island-specific rainfall
June 15, 2015
IEDRO’s Director of Scientific Applications, Dr. Teddy Allen, recently attended the Bi-Annual Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF), on the island of Saint Lucia, on behalf of The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) and the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH), to support a seasonal rainfall prediction workshop. The three-day workshop (May […]
Weather Wizards
March 1, 2015
The Weather Wizards App – a cost effective tool for digitizing large amounts of historic weather data much faster than manual methods Special thanks to SummIT Business Technologies for the support and production of the Weather Wizards data digitization solution.
IEDRO presents to USDA on weather data rescue & digitization, agriculture and risk management
October 29, 2014
Washington DC | Dr. Crouthamel was invited by the USDA’s Associate Administrator For Risk Management, Barbara Leach, to participate in the Seventh Annual Cyber Security Symposium and Expo at the USDA headquarters in Washington. Dr. Crouthamel presented on behalf of IEDRO. Among the topics Dr. Crouthamel addressed, were weather data rescue and digitization’s impact on agriculture risk […]
IEDRO & WMO aim to rescue Uzbekistan’s historical weather data
October 21, 2014
Tashkent | Just two weeks ago, the flight of Randy McCracken and Teddy Allen touched down in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. The two worked alongside Uzhydromet and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to identify the scope and potential of rescuing the country’s historical weather data. Teddy Allen is Director of Scientific Applications for The […]
Audio: In CBC Radio interview, Teddy Allen sheds light on need for more weather data rescue
September 21, 2014
Note: Audio starts automatically SEPTEMBER 21, 2014 | Teddy Allen, Director of Scientific Applications for IEDRO, was interviewed by CBC Radio’s Nora Young as part of the ‘Spark’ series. The interview covered many aspects of DR&D, most importantly, what weather data rescue really means, why we do it, and why we need to do more […]
New greenhouse gases record set, WMO reiterates need for international action to avoid devastating climate change
September 9, 2014
GENEVA (WMO) | According to the World Meteorological Organization’s annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2013, propelled by a surge in levels of carbon dioxide. This injected even greater urgency into the need for concerted international action against accelerating and potentially devastating climate […]
Both the “fog of ignorance” and “glow of discovery” emphasize need for data rescue
August 29, 2014
Philip Brohan, climate scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre, combines information from old documents, tree-rings and large computers, into a clear picture of what the weather used to be like. At the August 2014 ACRE (Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth) workshop, attended by IEDRO, Philip presented this particular visualization (seen below) of mean […]