2024 GLOBE Annual Meeting Update

The Annual Meeting is approaching! We are excited to see everyone on 15–18 July in Fredonia, New York, USA. Be sure to register before 5 July. If attending, please review the bus schedule (which covers trips from the Buffalo Niagara Airport to hotels and from hotels to SUNY Fredonia), parking information, and information for presenters.

Find all this and more on the Annual Meeting webpage.

New! Submit Media Releases Online

Reminder: We need signed media releases for any photos or videos that you share with GLOBE. We have updated the media forms on the website and have added new online forms—just complete the form and submit! Make sure to send a signed form with any photo for a Stars or STEM story, a news article, and/or an event!

View media release forms | Submit a GLOBE Stars Story | Submit a GLOBE STEM Story

Webinar | GPM 10-in-10 Webinar Series: Remote Sensing

11 July 2024, 8 PM ET [12 July, 00:00 UTC]

The sixth of the NASA “GPM 10-in-10” anniversary webinars will focus on “remote sensing.” Join this Global Precipitation Measurement webinar to gain an understanding about how and why we use satellites to help us deepen our knowledge of and protect our home planet.

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Webinar | The State of Trees – July 2024

16 July 2024, 1 PM ET [17:00 UTC]

Join this webinar, to be live-streamed from the 2024 GLOBE Annual Meeting in Fredonia, New York, where we will discuss the importance of matching space-based satellite tree height and land cover data.

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U.S. Opportunity | Summer Stipends Available

GLOBE and Natural Inquirer Crosswalk Project

Educators and preservice teachers in the United States can earn a stipend of $150 this summer by contributing to the GLOBE and Natural Inquirer Crosswalk Project.

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U.S. Opportunity | North American Phenology Campaign

Register Now for Fall 2024

This campaign focuses on monitoring and reporting on data about the cyclical patterns of plants to help validate the timing of the plant growing season. As students observe and report on plant green-down, they will have opportunities to meet real-world scientists and collaborate with other students.

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Updates and Improvements to GLOBE Systems

Many system and security upgrades have been made to GLOBE technology over the past month, and some exciting new features are coming soon. 

In late June, updates were made to the GLOBE Observer app, including:

• A notification alarm now appears on the home page when you reach a new milestone or extend your longest streak; if you haven’t seen it yet, try GLOBE Observer and look at the My Achievements part of the app to track how many measurements you’ve made and what your longest streak is.
• The new site-creation process clarifies how to create a new site to track your measurements.
• Nearly 30,000 new genus and species names were added, so those doing biometry measurements can now find the trees they are identifying.

In total, almost 60 changes were made to GLOBE Observer, both large and small.

In addition:

• The GLOBE Implementation Office staff section of the website has been updated with photos and bios of all the new GIO members.
• A new eTraining support area is in progress and will be ready in time for this year’s Annual Meeting. We hope these new supports will make it easier for everyone to complete their eTraining as they work to become GLOBE protocol certified. 
• The new desktop data entry forms will be changing: When you are logged in to the website, you will remain logged in when you connect to the new data entry forms.

Mission Mosquito

Braiding Indigenous Ways of Knowing with Western STEM | Webinar Recording

Hear insights from Anne Lewis from the South Dakota Discovery Center on interweaving Indigenous peoples' understanding of the interconnectedness of everything (or traditional ecological kinship) with Western STEM (which tends to be more compartmentalized and focused on quantifiable findings).

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Unique Mappers Network | Webinar Recording

Learn how the Unique Mappers Network, a Nigerian nonprofit, used GLOBE Observer's Mosquito Habitat Mapper during April 2024 Global Citizen Science Month in collaboration with SciStarter's One Million Acts of Science goal.

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Mapping Mosquito Habitats | Webinar Recording

Learn how landscape features and environmental factors such as temperature and precipitation variations across seasons and years influence mosquito abundance and diversity. Dr. Caio Martinelle B. De França of Southern Nazarene University describes how her team is using different remote-sensing datasets to develop ecological models for estimating species richness and predicting species occurrences.

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Trees Around the Globe Campaign

Wrangling of Tree Data | Webinar Recording

This June 2024 webinar highlighted lessons and online data to help educators assist students in bridging the gap between ground-based GLOBE measurements and satellite data.



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Year of Climate and Carbon (YCC) Campaign

Submitted Student Designs

Have you seen the designs submitted by GLOBE students to represent what the YCC Campaign means to them and to their local environment? These designs were hand drawn or digitally created without the use of AI and show the many ways students visualize and understand their local climate challenges. 

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GLOBE Goes to Sea

If you open a map of GLOBE Clouds data, you’ll see observations dotting the world’s oceans. Volunteers and students have been collecting GLOBE data at sea while on tall ships, cruise ships, and other vessels. GLOBE Observer may soon have an expanded role in studying oceans in polar regions by using the GLOBE Trees Protocol to estimate the height of icebergs!

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National Conference in Nepal Convenes GLOBE Schools

Nepal’s Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness hosted the 5th National Conference of School Clubs in Banepa, Kavre, Nepal, on 21–24 May. Schools from Taiwan and Thailand joined Nepal schools for the event.

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Malta and Latvia Collaborate to Inspire Young Scientists

Students from Malta and Latvia just finished a year-long climate collaboration with a focus on cloud observations. Two schools shared photographs of different weather conditions, learned about the varied climates of Malta and Latvia, and fostered a deeper connection to their scientific observations.

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New Hampshire Students Help Create Water Tent

On 6 June, a crowd witnessed the unveiling of the Water Tent, part of the Earth Around Us tent program produced by the New Hampshire GLOBE Program. Students played a critical role in the tent's development by contributing data and drawings of a local river ecosystem to the murals printed on the tent panels.

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Space Station Receives and Sends Pet Photos

Through the GLOBE Observer app, NASA is collecting pet pictures captured in citizen scientists' observations. These photos will be transmitted over laser-communication links to the Space Station during a NASA SCaN (Space Communications and Navigation) technology demo.

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