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Tuesday, May 17th: DAY ONE (two back-to-back videos) (Contact HQ for passcode)

Wednesday, May 18th: DAY TWO (two back-to-back videos) (Contact HQ for passcode)


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Tuesday, May 17, 2022: DAY ONE

WELCOME

Introductions, goals and objectives for the meeting: Jon Meyer, WERA 1012 Co-Chair, Utah State University, Logan, UT

Session 1 - WERA Partners (times are equivalent to video recordings)

• 00:00:00 - 00:30:00: National Weather Service, COOP Update: Amy Fritz, National COOP Program Manager, National Weather Service, Silver Spring, MD
• 00:30:00 - 00:55:00: CoCoRaHS Data in NCEI Climate Analyses: Bryant Korzeniewski, National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC
• 00:58:00 - 01:21:00: Regional Climate Center Usage of Volunteer Network Data: Bill Sorenson, NOAA High Plains Regional Climate Center, Lincoln, NE
• 01:23:00 - 01:47:00: National Weather Service, The Cellular Cooperative Observation Program: Brian Walawender, National Weather Service, Chief of Systems and Facilities Division, Central Region Headquarters, Kansas City, MO
• 01:48:00 - 02:09:00: How Citizen Science and Crowdsourced Data Aid in Drought Early Warning: Joel Lisonbee, Regional Drought Information Coordinator, NIDIS, Boulder, CO
• 02:10:00 - 02:39:00: PRISM Climate Group Update: Chris Daly, PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

Session 2 - CoCoRaHS Support and Operations

• 02:41:00 - 02:55:00: CoCoRaHS Budget Report: Henry Reges, National CoCoRaHS Coordinator, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
• 02:55:30 - 03:35:00: CoCoRaHS Data Quality Control Update: Steve Hilberg, CoCoRaHS Project Manager, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, Dani Talmadge, CoCoRaHS QC, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
• 03:35:30 - end1/beginning2 - 00:24:00: Website Updates: Julian Turner, CoCoRaHS Web Development, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
• 00:24:30 - 00:47:00: Volunteer Rain Gauge Network Usage in the US Drought Monitor Process: Brian Fuchs, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE
• 00:47:00 - end2: Unfinished Discussions from the Day

Wednesday, May 18, 2022: DAY TWO

Session 3 - CoCoRaHS Outside CONUS

• 00:00:00 - 00:21:00: CoCoRaHS in Alaska: Doug Wesley, National Weather Service Alaska Regional Headquarters, Anchorage, AK
• 00:21:00 - 00:43:30: The US Virgin Islands Drought Research Project and Its Impact Territory-wide (and video from presentation here): Christina Chanes, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, VI
• 00:44:00 - 01:12:30: CoCoRaHS Canada – an ECCC and WIN Update: Douglas Leonard, Environment Canada, Dartmouth Nova Scotia

Session 4 - Volunteer Recruiting, Retention and Engagement

• 01:14:00 - 01:43:00: Why Minnesota is Cuckoo for CoCoRaHS: Sharing a successful strategy for recruiting and retaining CoCoRaHS observers: Michelle Margraf, National Weather Service Twin Cities, Observing Program Leader, Chanhassen, MN
• 01:44:00 - 02:44:00: CoCoRaHS Recruiting and Retention Update: Matt Spies, Connecticut State Coordinator, Brookfield, CT
• 02:44:00 - end1: Open Discussion: How can we adapt successful observer retention strategies?

Session 5 - The Rain Gauge and Other Protocol Updates

• (Missed recording) NERain Changes for 2022: James Williams, Nebraska Department of Natural Resources, Lincoln, NE
• (Missed recording) CoCoRaHS Condition Monitoring in Forests: Peter Goble, WERA 1012 Co-Chair, Climatologist, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
• beginning2 - 00:23:00: Ice Accretion Measurement – Update: Noah Newman, CoCoRaHS Education Coordinator, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
• 00:23:30 - end2: Discussion: The Power of Informal Rain Gauge Donations: Hosted by Nolan Doesken, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO