While I'm not sure of the day this will get published, I know that is a pleasant Sunday afternoon as I write this. Further, and yes, I'm sitting on my back porch reading, one of my key relaxations.A while back I wrote about Community Response Grids in Nothing New Under the Sun: Community Response Grids than I find an example of one also from Science.
A Colorado based climatologist, Nolan Doesken, created CoCoRaHS (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network, a community response grid (CRG) after his hometown experienced a flash flood. What he created isn't called a CRG as such and I'm at a loss to see how it isn't one.
In any case, NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration honored him for his efforts. CoCoRaHS now has 4,000 volunteers in 18 states, a very impressive example of how The Village can form to solve a problem and do it well. As the Science note says, "People are thrilled to help scientists when you make it easy for them to do that."
Amen.
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