Finished! Looks like this project is out of data at the moment!
Thanks everyone, PROJECT IS COMPLETE! (There will be some oddities while I collect the overall statistics.)
The Team
Convoy Enroute to Mapia Islands, Dutch New Guinea (detail), by Edward Millman; 1944, Naval History and Heritage Command.
Scientists and Archivists
The team behind this project are specialists in climate science, naval history, and high-performance computing. Together they provide expertise across the entire range of this project, from creating digital images of one-of-a-kind documents of national significance, to the quality-control and analysis of rescued data using the most powerful computers in the world.
Professor Ed Hawkins (MBE) is a climate scientist in the National Centre for Atmospheric Science at the University of Reading. He leads the UK Weather Rescue initiative to recover millions of lost-to-science weather observations from UK archives.
Dr. Philip Brohan is a climate scientist at the Met Office in Exeter. He makes reconstructions of past climate variability and change, and really needs more historic weather observations to improve them.
Dr. Gil Compo is a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. He co-leads the NOAA-CIRES-DOE 20th Century Reanalysis Project to reconstruct global weather every 3 hours back to the 19th century. Every new weather observation can help improve the reconstruction of weather, climate and their extremes.
Dr. Kevin Wood is a research scientist at the University of Washington Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean & Ecosystem Studies and the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, specializing in polar and historical climatology. He is also a former merchant marine officer with more than 30 years of sea-going experience.
Dr. Praveen Teleti is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Reading, working with Prof. Ed Hawkins on historical weather data rescue. He is also interested in tropical cyclone formation, their impacts on coastal communities, and to how to build resilience and adaptation in response to climate change."
Mr. Mark Mollan is Deputy Historian of the U.S. Coast Guard. As former Reference Archivist of the Navy/Maritime Team at the National Archives and Records Administration (US), Mark provided coordination in the early phases of the project, and continues to facilitate research with Coast Guard and Navy records.
