751: Mike Crimmins and Gary Woodard on Logging The Rain

751: Mike Crimmins and Gary Woodard on Logging The Rain

Collecting rainfall information in a cooperative community project

In This Podcast: Rainlog.org is one of the coolest Citizen science projects available.  Simply purchase a rain gauge create an account and track your rain.  Join Farmer Greg as he chats with the creators of the site.  Mike and Gary came together 20 years ago to track rural rainfall in Arizona and their project has expanded worldwide and includes millions of readings.   

Mike is on the faculty of the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Arizona and is an Extension Specialist in Climate Science for Arizona Cooperative Extension. He has been in this role for 18 years  working with ranchers, farmers and natural resource managers across Arizona to integrate climate information in their planning and decision making and assisting them in developing strategies to adapt to a changing climate.

Gary has more than 40 years of experience in municipal water resource issues both a consultant, and as a researcher at the University of Arizona. He specializes in integrating economic analysis with water resources issues, providing a critical bridge often missing from policy decisions. He works on projects that involve modeling municipal water demand, forecasting trends, evaluating the impacts of drought and climate change on water demand, rainwater harvesting, and assessing water conservation programs.  

Together they have developed an incredible citizen science data collection page called Rainlog.org

Visit www.UrbanFarm.org/rainlog for the show notes and links on this episode!

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