[Googleearth] Looking for kml developer interested in 1-2 weeks of support as part of a Google Earth Developer Grant-funded project

[Tiffany Duhl]

Hi everyone in NCAR's Google Earth User's group!

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:

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.

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.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).I'm not completely 
helpless with kml, but the lion's share of my expertise concerns 
ArcMap-Google Earth stuff.

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.

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!

Thanks so much for your time!

Best Regards,

-Tiffany


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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
duhl at ucar.edu

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