WERA 1012: 


“Managing and Utilizing Precipitation Observations from Volunteer Networks” Annual Conference (Hybrid in 22)

May 17-19, 2022

Our annual conference will be held in hybrid form from May 17-19, 2022 at the YMCA of the Rockies in beautiful Estes Park, Colorado or via ZOOM, your choice.  Just minutes from Rocky Mountain National Park, one of the most picturesque settings in the United States.   Attendees are encouraged to register early.   

This year’s conference will be held from May 17-19, 2022 and will be avaiilable as a hybrid conference with an in-person meeting as well as the ability to attend virtually via ZOOM.  

For those attending in person, arrival on the evening of Monday, May 16th is recommended. The conference ends at lunchtime on Thursday, May 19th. Masks are encouraged by not required.

WERA 1012’s purpose is to offer a forum where attendees can discuss and strategize how to manage, educate, maintain, and improve volunteer weather observer networks used to collect valuable precipitation data in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, the U.S.Virgin Islands and the Bahamas.  This includes the National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Network, the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network, CoCoRaHS Canada, CoCoRaHS Bahamas, as well as other existing local, regional and state/provincial volunteer networks.

This year’s meeting will focus on several interrelated areas of interest, but not limited to:

State of the Networks

- COOP Network update

- PRISM updates

- CoCoRaHS Website update/mapping

- QC update

- NRCS partnership

- NE Rain/ Hi DEN, others

CoCoRaHS Special Projects

- Ice Accretion

- Forest Monitoring

- ET gages

- Condition Monitoring

- The CoCoRaHS Dashboard

Recruitment/Retention/Engagement

- Strategies for Urban and Rural recruitment/sustainability

- Filling in the map in your state

- Master Gardeners/Master Naturalists

- Engaging Teachers/ sustaining participation over the long run (case examples)

- International participation/

- possible Tribal update

- All things drought

Weather/Climate Jeopardy

Please consider attending the conference even if you are in another area of science and would like to learn more about how citizen science networks function.