IEDRO needs volunteers to help rescue historical environmental data through translation, data collection, fundraising, and outreach. Volunteer positions include translators, data detectives, presenters, writers, and fundraisers. Donating time or money can help IEDRO locate and preserve at-risk weather observations and other records to further scientific understanding of climate change.

1. How can you help?
Donate your time
We need energetic people with
Disease creative new ideas. View our
available positions and apply at
Prevention Volunteer Match or our web International
site: www.IEDRO.org
Environmental
Translators: to translate documents and weather observa-
tions, and correspondence with foreign volunteers: Spanish,
Data
French and Portuguese
Global Warming Rescue
Data Detectives: to locate at risk data and begin the rescue
process working with local correspondents
Severe
Weather Presenters: to present materials and direct discussions for
schools and community organizations
Forecasts
Fund Raisers: to staff booths, present pamphlets and guide
discussions at public events and occasions
Writers: to research and create news and magazine articles,
web pages, correspondence, and grant proposals
Reduce Better Donate your money
Famine Farming Your donation, along with those of our other generous
supporters, will rescue historic, life saving data imme-
diately. We accept personal checks, money orders or
credit card payments through:
Understanding
History EBAY’s MissionFish Program:
EBAY stores or Sellers can desig-
nate a percentage of the funds
they receive to IEDRO
Safer Construction
and
Building Codes
www.IEDRO.org

2. Records now awaiting
rescue
IEDRO volunteers: Recorded on delicate paper, these historic
IEDRO’s goal is a healthier, safer and stronger  Locate weather observations at risk weather observations, crucial to understanding
world population, through the collection and internationally changing and hazardous weather
distribution of historical environmental data for patterns, are in danger of loss
use by the scientific, teaching  Collaborate with the American Me- or damage.
and meteorological world teorological Society and the World
communities. Meteorological Organization
 Position experts and install equip-
ment
 Instruct local volunteers Organize, preserve and
computerize the rescued data
 Assure data availability to the National Climatic
Data Center (NCDC), National Oceanic and At-
mospheric Administration (NOAA) world data-
base
 Design computer software for data conversion
 Locate grants and funding
 Publish the “International Data Rescue News”
 Publish IEDRO web site.
500,000+ valuable historic weather
observations are lost everyday!
Rescue teams at work.
Forever!