Making Clouds Matter: Rainmaking in the American West

This project is ongoing.

"Making Clouds Matter: Rainmaking in the American West" investigates rainmaking as a creative practice that intervenes in a moment in the water cycle, amplifying water’s phase shifting properties. Research focuses on the development and implementation of two techniques for rainmaking developed and used in the American West from the 1940s through the 1970s, that of silver iodide cloud seeding and Wilhelm Reich’s cloudbuster. 

I am seeking an undergraduate research assistant to organize and catalog research materials, which includes scans from archives, field notes, audio, and photos. 

Qualifications
  • organizational skills
  • experience managing PDFs in Adobe Acrobat
  • data entry
  • interview transcription
Project Timeline

June - December 2024

Duties
  • divide large PDF files of archival scans into separate files 
  • create a catalog system with titles and summaries of the content
  • enter bibliographic information into Zotero
  • transcribe interviews
  • organize images
Typical Time Commitment
5-10
Desired Length of Commitment
1
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Project Lead
Who to Contact
Marina Peterson
Contact Email
marina.peterson@austin.utexas.edu

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