refine readme + adjust citation

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CITATION.cff

@@ -25,11 +25,6 @@ authors:
   orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9140-936X"
 - family-names: "McPhillips"
   given-names: "Timothy"
-- family-names: "Nguyễn"
-  given-names: "Christine"    
-- family-names: "Pritchard"
-  given-names: "Calvin"
-  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4557-8602"  
 title: "Synthesizing Knowledge of Past Environments (SKOPE) Web Application"
 doi: "10.5281/zenodo.6522974"
 abstract: >

README.md

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 [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/159711888.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/159711888)
 [![Build/Test Docker Image CI](https://github.com/openskope/skopeui/actions/workflows/docker-ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/openskope/skopeui/actions/workflows/docker-ci.yml)
 
-This codebase provides a new user interface for the [NSF supported](https://www.openskope.org/skope-nsf-proposal) [Synthesizing Knowledge of Past Environments](https://www.openskope.org/) project.
+This codebase provides a frontend only user interface for the [NSF supported](https://www.openskope.org/skope-nsf-proposal) [Synthesizing Knowledge of Past Environments](https://www.openskope.org/) project.
 
-The UI was developed using [Nuxt](https://nuxtjs.org/), [VueJS](https://vuejs.org/), [Leaflet](https://leafletjs.com/), and [Plotly JS](https://plotly.com/javascript/). 
+The current UI uses [Nuxt 2](https://nuxtjs.org/), [VueJS](https://vuejs.org/), [Leaflet](https://leafletjs.com/), and [Plotly JS](https://plotly.com/javascript/). 
 
-The application has a simple [Makefile](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/) for configuration and deployment. In order to set up a development environment you'll need to have a recent version of Docker and docker-compose installed.
+The application has a basic [Makefile](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/) for configuration and deployment. A recent version of [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/) and [docker compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/) is recommended to set up a local development environment.
 
-Running `make` for the first time will generate a `config.mk` file that you can customize by setting the `DEPLOY_ENVIRONMENT` or the remote timeseries API and geoserver API urls. Running `make deploy` will then redeploy the application with those settings in place, listening by default on port 3000.
+Running `make` for the first time will generate a default `config.mk` file that can be further customized:
+
+- `DEPLOY_ENVIRONMENT` can be set to `dev`, `staging`, or `prod` (use `dev` for local development)
+- `SKOPE_API_HOST_URL` should point at a SKOPE backend API to serve metadata and timeseries data (e.g., a deployed
+  instance of https://github.com/openskope/skope-api/)
+- `SKOPE_GEOSERVER_HOST_URL` should point at a GeoServer instance with SKOPE datasets and geotiff layers preloaded
+  (see https://github.com/openskope/skope-datasets for more details)
+
+Run `make deploy` to redeploy the application with whatever settings are currently defined in `config.mk`
+
+With `DEPLOY_ENVIRONMENT=dev` a hot-reloading development server should spin up at http://localhost:3000
+
+
+## Contributors
+
+- Allen Lee @alee
+- Kyle Bocinsky @bocinsky
+- Calvin Pritchard @cpritcha
+- Christine Nguyễn @chrstngyn
+
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