Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "CoCoRaHS: The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network","Colorado State University","2006: Environmental Literacy",2006,NA06SEC4690004,"$585,005","Nolan Doesken",Colorado,"Fort Collins",Larimer,CO02,"40.56877, -105.07922","2006-10-01T00:00:00 - 2010-09-30T00:00:00","The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) involves thousands of people of all ages in the observation and study of weather, climate and water resources. In CoCoRaHS, citizens of all ages help measure and report rain, hail and snow from their own homes, schools and businesses. These data are then efficiently collected via the internet, archived in a national database, and made immediately available to participants, scientists and the general public showing the fascinating patterns of precipitation from each passing storm (see http://www.cocorahs.org). The measurement of precipitation and the patterns, variations and impacts that result, open the door to creative study of our environment. It is the ""lowest common denominator"" of hydroclimatic exploration. In this project, data from the CoCoRaHS citizen science network will be shared with and utilized by NOAA partners to help monitor drought, to help detect local severe storms, to alert local authorities to developing flash flood situations, to provide ""ground truth"" for NOAA and NASA remote sensing technologies, and to provide verification for both local and national weather and climate forecast products.","American Meteorological Society (AMS)" "Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS)","Colorado State University","2010: ELG for Informal/Nonformal Education",2010,NA10SEC0080012,"$1,252,392","Chris Kummerow",Colorado,"Fort Collins",Larimer,CO02,"40.56877, -105.07922","2010-10-01T00:00:00 - 2015-09-30T00:00:00","The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) is a citizen science program where thousands of volunteers across the country measure and report the amount of precipitation that falls each day in their own neighborhood. In the next three years CoCoRaHS will use strategies from the “Citizen Science Toolkit” and align activities to the “Essential Principles to Climate Science” to engage thousands more participants in collecting, reporting and exploring precipitation. Evapotranspiration measurements will be added to teach and demonstrate the hydrologic cycle in action. Through strong NOAA partnerships with the National Weather Service, the National Climatic Data Center, the Earth Systems Research Lab and the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center, precipitation data quality and accessibility for professional users will be enhanced. The CoCoRaHS network will be constructing training, data entry and visualization tools utilizing Web 2.0 concepts, cyberlearning tools and hand-held device applications with a goal of increasing participation and expanding the volunteer network into broader, younger, more diverse audiences.","Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Birch Aquarium at Scripps, Cornell University / Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Oregon State University / PRISM Climate Group, Colorado Division of Water Resources, State Engineers Office, University of South Carolina (USC) / Department of Geography, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), NOAA National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center, NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) / National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Avalanche Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture Headquarters, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA)"