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Hi everyone in NCAR's Google Earth User's group!<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions group
here at NCAR
wants to pursue the recently-announced Google Earth Outreach
Developer grant,
and I'm writing you all today to find out whether one of you (who
is kml savvy)
would be willing to appear on our proposal in the capacity of
providing a week
or 2 of (paid) support towards the project, which is outlined
below:<br>
<br>
Essentially, we'd like to develop an educational/informational
mapping tool
that uses Google Earth to visualize urban allergenic pollen 'hot
spots' and
provides some educational information for people about pollen
episodes; their
timing and magnitude, a bit on how pollen triggers allergic
reactions/asthmatic
episodes, as well as some information about the interactions
between pollen and
anthropogenic air pollution. We'd like to focus much of the
educational
content in on 1 or 2 urban areas which are characterized by either
(a) current
high pollen counts and pollen-related allergy incidents (e.g.,
Knoxville, Tennessee)
and/or (2) expanding urban areas which have traditionally had
lower
pollen-related problems but are experiencing more frequent pollen
episodes as a
result of urbanization and the introduction of allergenic tree and
other types
of non-native vegetation species (such as Phoenix, Arizona). I've
spent
the last year or so developing a pollen-release module to be
incorporated into
an NCAR community model that our group publishes (MEGAN), and so
we'll draw on
that for simulations and mapping content.<span style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
The details still need to be fleshed out a bit, but essentially
I'd take the
lead on this project and request 3 or so months of salary, but
we'd like to
include some budgeting for some support when we need it.<span
style=""> </span>In particular, I’ll need a bit of help doing
some of the actual kml-related stuff (such as having links in
Google Earth that
open up informational web pages, and possibly some of the
visualization, if we
decide to show temporal pollen-release evolution data, for
example).<span style=""> </span>I’m not completely helpless with
kml, but the
lion’s share of my expertise concerns ArcMap-Google Earth stuff.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The timing of the project is somewhat unclear,
but it sounds
like, if the grant is awarded, funds would be distributed quickly
(maybe by
July or August?), and the project would need to be finished within
4 months, so
we are looking for someone who could work with me on this between
August and November,
most likely, just for 1-2 weeks.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If anyone out there is willing, please let me
know as soon
as possible; I’d need to submit the advance notice to F&A
tomorrow!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks so much for your time!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best Regards,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-Tiffany</p>
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Tiffany Duhl
Associate Scientist
National Center for Atmospheric Research
3450 Mitchell Lane
Boulder, CO USA 80301
tel +001 303 497 1427
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:duhl@ucar.edu">duhl@ucar.edu</a>
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