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Recovering Weather Data from Arctic Expeditions

MILLIONS of Arctic weather observations were recorded by US Navy and Coast Guard officers since 1850. Until now most of this data has been inaccessible to climate scientists. A new collaboration between NOAA, the National Archives and thousands of citizen volunteers participating in the Zooniverse Old Weather project are making the original logbooks and the […]

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Press Release: IEDRO Profiled in Three National Newspapers

Deale, Maryland – The International Environmental Data Rescue Organization (IEDRO), a US-based, 501(C)(3) nonprofit organization whose volunteers rescue and digitize historic weather observations throughout the world, was recently profiled by the USA Today and the Baltimore Sun. The articles highlight IEDRO and its sister organizations’ work in saving and digitizing old weather data to allow […]

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