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Dear GLOBE community,
Nearly 1,000 GLOBE community members will gather later this month for the virtual 2025 GLOBE Annual Meeting. The meeting will be hosted on the Mighty Networks platform, which will also be used for future e-trainings and other professional learning workshops. If you are unable to attend, we will record many of the sessions and share materials.
In other exciting news, we are working with the NASA Disaster Response Coordination System (DRCS) team to conduct a pilot to explore if and how GLOBE land cover observations collected during the 2025 hurricane season might support disaster response activities. Ground-based observations through GLOBE may be able to augment satellite data and official field reporting to provide localized, timely, and geolocated photos to disaster response teams. The goal is to capture land cover changes caused by hurricanes and other severe weather events. From August to October, we will ask observers in the southeastern United States to submit regular (weekly or monthly) land cover observations. Stay tuned for details!
Thank you for sharing your news and Stars Stories with us. We love to hear about your work, and it is important to share these stories with our community and beyond. We have updated the Stars Story submission guidelines to clarify the process for contributors.
We continue to add to the collection of Event and Outreach Materials available on the GLOBE website. In addition to program fact sheets, you will find materials for event participants, such as the Cloud Identification Chart, phenology ruler with plant color guide, and GLOBE Science Process handout. Thanks to GLOBE Observer and U.S. Office staff for sharing these materials with the broader community.
The Europe and Eurasia Regional Coordination Office (RCO) team created a wonderful 30th anniversary video featuring original GLOBE music and showcasing the fun we share as a community while engaging in science.
As a reminder, the 2026 International Virtual Science Symposium (IVSS) theme is "GLOBE Data Detectives: Using Data to Explore Change in Your Local Environment." The program will launch in August, so start thinking about potential research projects.
Finally, we want to acknowledge that there is uncertainty about the funding of the GLOBE Program from NASA and to assure the GLOBE community that we at the GLOBE Implementation Office (GIO) and RCOs across the program are working to sustain the amazing work that you all do. We will hold informational sessions in August or September to share more details as they become available.
Thank you for your continued efforts to bring GLOBE experiences to participants and to enrich the program. If you have any questions or need support, please contact us at help@nasaglobe.org.
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