The Team
Meet the Weather Rescue EY Science Team
The scientists behind this project are specialists in climate science, historical climatology, retrospective analysis (reanalysis), data science and high-performance computing. As a team they provide expertise across the entire range of this endeavour, from photographing one-of-a-kind documents of national significance (under the hawk-like supervision of the U.S. National Archives) to the quality-control and application of rescued data in the most advanced reanalysis systems in the world.
Note: In the column to the right you can see the Zooniverse usernames of all people involved in building and testing this project.
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. He leads Seas of Knowledge, a collaborative digital imaging project of the U.S. National Archives and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that is providing the logbook images used in Weather Rescue EY.
