September 2019 GLOBE News Brief
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25th Anniversary GLOBE Annual Meeting Will be Held in Washington, D.C., USA, in July 2020!
GLOBE Needs Your Help with Planning!
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The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
The 25th Anniversary GLOBE Annual Meeting will be held from 12-16 July 2020 in Washington, D.C., USA.
GLOBE Community: GLOBE needs your help planning the science protocol trainings. Please complete
this survey
to let us know: 1) your favorite GLOBE protocol, and 2) one GLOBE protocol that you would like to learn. Your responses will help shape the trainings during the meeting.
Keep checking back
here
for updates about the meeting!
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Ready for the 2020 GLOBE
International Virtual Science Symposium (IVSS)?
Informational Webinar on 30 October 2019 – Reports Due 10 March 2020
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Are you ready for the 2020 GLOBE International Virtual Science Symposium (IVSS)? The due date for projects will be 10 March 2020, so mark your calendars!
The IVSS is a way for primary through undergraduate students from all GLOBE countries to showcase their hard work. With GLOBE, students explore the natural world through hands‑on investigations in their own communities, sparking their curiosity and interest in science. This often leads to inquiries that help solve real-world problems and further understanding of our global environment.
IVSS Informational Webinar
The GLOBE Implementation Office will host an informational webinar about the 2020 IVSS at 10:00 a.m. MT/12:00 p.m. ET/4:00 p.m. UTC, on Wednesday, 30 October. (A recording will be available after the webinar.)
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Join the New Community-led “GLOBE Water Bodies Intensive Observation Period” Taking Place 23-27 September 2019
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Following regional collaboration at GLOBE’s 23rd Annual Meeting, the community is leading an exciting new event: “GLOBE Water Bodies Intensive Observation Period” (IOP), which will begin on 23 September and run through 27 September. All GLOBE countries, in all GLOBE regions, are invited to join in this data collection and research endeavor.
During the IOP, participants will identify a water body close to their schools or towns, and collect and enter data based on one of the following GLOBE Hydrosphere Bundles (Water Quality Bundle, Rivers and Lakes Bundle, Ocean Protocol Bundle), which includes hydrosphere protocols (water temperature, water pH, turbidity, salinity, dissolved oxygen) and atmosphere protocols (air temperature, rainfall, rain pH, relative humidity).
The overall goals of the event are to:
- connect to, and collaborate with, other GLOBE community members around data related to water bodies;
- connect to community issues, and provide possible solutions to those issues, using GLOBE materials; and
- connect to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG); specifically, SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation.
The Global Sustainable Development Goals is a 17-point plan to end poverty, combat environmental changes and fight injustice and inequality. It was adopted by 193 world leaders at a United Nations Summit in 2015 and came into force on 01 January 2016. (To view the correlations between the SDGs and The GLOBE Program,
click here
.)
For more information on the IOP, you can:
- attend the Water Bodies IOP Webinar on 10 September, at 7:00 a.m. MT, (to register, click here);
- go to the Water Bodies IOP website, by clicking here; and/or
- check with your respective Regional Coordination Office, or contact Mark Brettenny at: mark@globe-africa.org
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Join the September GLOBE Mission Mosquito
Education and Citizen Science Webinars
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GLOBE educators and citizen scientists (of all ages) – you are invited to join the following GLOBE Mission Mosquito (GMM) September webinars:
GMM Education Webinar #11 “Back to School with GLOBE Mission Mosquito” – Wednesday, 04 September (8:00 p.m. ET/12:00 a.m. UTC): Fi
nd out how teachers around the world are integrating the GLOBE Mission Mosquito tool into their teaching and in after-school activities. Jeff Bouwman and Erquinio Taborda will discuss "Best Practices" for engaging students in both formal and informal educational settings.
GMM Citizen Science Webinar #9 “Behind the Scenes: What Happens to Your Data?” – Wednesday, 25 September (2:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. UTC):
During the webinar, Dr. Helen Amos, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, will discuss data quality and give hints on how to ensure that your reported data is the best it can be. A question and answer session will follow.
To learn more about the GLOBE Mission Mosquito campaign, and to view archived webinars,
click here
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Congratulations to the Winner of the July 2019 Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign Tree Height IOP
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The GLOBE Program would like to congratulate the winner of the July 2019 Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign Tree Height Intensive Observation Period (IOP): Y-Hsien Lee of The National Kinmen Senior High School from the Taiwan Partnership, with 126 measurements in 31 days.
IOPs are focused periods of time where participants are encouraged to collect large amounts of data and enter it in the GLOBE database. Data that is collected during an IOP will provide other GLOBE students, scientists, researchers, and educators large amounts of concentrated data over a short period of time. This can also be referred to as "Data Density." Ground-based data density can serve as way to help validate data coming from satellites and airborne instruments.
To learn more about the Trees Around the GLOBE campaign,
click here
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GLOBE Congratulates Top July 2019 Trees Around the GLOBE
Campaign Measurement Champions
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The GLOBE Program would like to congratulate the top most active Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign participants taking at least 10 measurements for tree height, greenings, and land cover measurements for the campaign in July!
Tree Height (710 Total Measurements/Observations):
- Y. Lee (Taiwan Partnership)
- E. Taborda Martinez (Columbia)
- G. Simunic (Croatia)
- D. Jang (Republic of Korea)
Greenings (11 Total Measurements/Observations):
- M. Algarni (Saudi Arabia)
Land Cover (731 Total Measurements/Observations):
- Y. Lee (Taiwan Partnership)
- P. Foleta (United States)
- S. Taylor (United States)
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Miss the “How to Submit Dust Storm Event Photographs Using
GLOBE Observer” Webinar?
Check Out the Recording and Educational Resources!
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If you missed the 06 August webinar “How to Submit Dust Storm Event Photographs Using GLOBE Observer,” presented by NASA GLOBE Clouds Project Scientist Marilé Colón Robles, the recording – and related educational resources – are now available.
The webinar focused on teaching participants how to collect dust storm observations, as well as on educational resources available for use with formal and informal audiences.
Your participation in this endeavor is greatly appreciated – and invaluable. Your observations will be used by scientists to verify satellite observations and see if their models have successfully predicted these dust storms and help scientists alert communities to better prepare for the harmful impacts of these storms.
To watch the recorded webinar, and to search through all of the educational resources,
click here
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How Do You Download Dust Observations Reported through GLOBE?
Read This Blog and Find Out!
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Citizen scientists from around the world have been reporting dust events using the NASA GLOBE Observer App. In a recent Community Blog, “How to Download Dust Observations Reported through GLOBE,” NASA GLOBE Clouds Project Scientist Marilé Colón Robles offers step-by-step instructions on how to download dust observations via two different options.
Option 1 explains how to download the data to a spreadsheet. Option 2 explains how to download the data to a JSON or GeoJSON fie. (For both options, you need to download clouds data first because dust data are part of the clouds data set, and then filter for observations.)
To read the blog, and explore which option may be best for you
,
click here
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GLOBE Zika Education and Prevention Project Update
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Spotlight on the GLOBE Zika Education and Prevention Project:
Asia and Pacific Region
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GLOBE would like to thank the Asia and the Pacific Region for their work on the GLOBE Zika Education and Prevention Project. Countries within the region participating in the project include Australia, India, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nepal, New Zealand, Palau, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Over the last year, these countries have organized 96 country-wide and local mosquito training workshops; trained over 1,400 individuals; and added over 50,000 data points to the GLOBE Observer Mosquito Habitat Mapper (GO MHM) tool.
Since 2018, students within the region participating in the project have submitted 13 research reports to the GLOBE IVSS. Two student teams, one from the Philippines and one from Thailand, were selected to present their IVSS mosquito research at GLOBE’s 23rd Annual Meeting in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
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The Thailand student team presents their mosquito research, “Dengue Situation with Different Ecological and Environmental” at the 23rd Annual Meeting.
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Conceptual Community-based Engagement Model, the Philippines, GLOBE Zika Education and Prevention Project Student Research
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The student team from the Philippines presented a conceptual community engagement model to connect public health officials, community organizations, and community members through communications, trainings, and action plans: “Community based mosquito vector prevention model: conceptual approach to mitigating the risk of mosquito threats through community empowerment and education.” As part of their research, the students collected mosquito data over the course of three days from 15 sites around their school. Using the GO MHM tool, the students identified all 30 mosquito larvae samples as Aedes aegypti.
The community engagement framework would train community members, including students, teachers, and public officials, on how to use the GO MHM tool to collect mosquito data. The goal is to create a community-based model that can be adapted and scaled for more effective targeted mosquito campaigns by training community members on how to use the GO MHM tool to collect mosquito data. In a similar fashion, public health officials would be trained on how to use the tool, and on how to access and retrieve mosquito data from the GLOBE database to create real-time mosquito campaign strategies that are location specific and responsive.
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Combating Vector-borne Diseases Story Map: Tackling Shared Challenges in the
United States and France
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The GLOBE Zika Education and Prevention Project featured on the vector-borne disease Story Map
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The GLOBE community is a part of a larger international effort to educate and train community members on how to prevent mosquito-borne disease. On World Mosquito Day, 20 August 2019, the U.S. Embassy in France unveiled a Story Map that shows the power of international partnerships in global efforts to combat vector-borne diseases. The Story Map highlights the GLOBE Zika Education and Prevention Project, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the GO MHM tool, noting the important data observation and collection role of citizen scientists, “NASA’s Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program allows citizens to use the GLOBE Observer app to track and eliminate mosquito habitats, which can help communities take measures to protect themselves against diseases.”
To view the Story Map, featuring partnerships working to
To learn more about the GLOBE Zika Education and Prevention Project,
click here
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U.S. High School Students in SEES Intern Program Share Experiences Using GLOBE Observer Mosquito Habitat Mapper
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U.S. high school students participating in the NASA Texas Space Grant Consortium (TSGC) Summer Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) internship program are sharing their research experiences using the GLOBE Observer Mosquito Habitat Mapper via GLOBE’s “Guest Scientist Blog.” These virtual internships are part of a collaboration between GLOBE Mission Mosquito and SEES.
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SEES Mosquito Habitat Mapper intern Clara U., a student from Washington, shares her research experience in “Mosquito Mappers – A Collaborative Research Experience.”
“Something that has fascinated me in the research I have done so far is the vast impact that human activity has on the distribution of mosquito communities. Globalization and human travel are thought to be responsible for introducing many mosquito-borne diseases to unlikely areas, for example, spreading the Culex tarsalis, a vector of western equine encephalitis, to Washington State.”
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SEES Mosquito Habitat Mapper intern Thien-Nha T., a student from California, shares her experience in: “The Frustrations of Fieldwork and the Rewards of Collaborative Science.”
“Before this project, I never ever imagined I would be interested in studying any type of bugs, much less mosquitoes -- my itch-causing nemesis. However, the more I realized how interconnected these bugs are with the rest of the world and even my own life, the more I saw their importance.”
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SEES Mosquito Habitat Mapper intern Parker L., a student from Texas, shares his experience in “Effectiveness of Eco-friendly Botanicals in Repelling Mosquitoes from Container Oviposition Sites.”
“I am fascinated at how effectively Aedes albopictus has expanded beyond its historical geographical origins in Asia, sticking its proboscis into Texas along with every continent across the globe except Antarctica. This invasive mosquito, which serves as a vector for dengue and chikungunya, has been enormously successful in utilizing alternative breeding containers to supplement its natural oviposition sites.”
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SEES Mosquito Habitat Mapper Intern Maia W., a student from Washington, shares her experience in: “Dark, Warm, and Safe -- Productive Mosquito Larvae Habitats Found on Urban Construction Sites.”
“As part of our field research, SEES interns identify local potential mosquito breeding habitats. As I live in an area that is cold and rainy most of the year, I did not anticipate finding any larvae, and when I did find some, it was not in the area I expected. Rather than finding larvae in a puddle deep in a forest, I found it right around the corner from my home at a construction site.”
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SEES Mosquito Habitat Mapper Intern Lindsay W., a student from California, share her experience in “Mosquito Larvae Hide and Seek in a Chapparal Ecosystem.”
“California has recently emerged from a multi-year drought, but I live at the edge of a town in the chaparral where water is typically scarce. I often travel miles by car to find potential mosquito habitats, only to find no larvae in those water sources. I eventually contacted Vector Control in hopes that they could direct me to potential breeding sites, and they sent me a few locations. As of yet, most sites I’ve visited have had water and no mosquitoes. However, one site, Aubrey Pond in Old Poway, had neither mosquitoes nor water. Possibly this condition is the result of the drought, when many ornamental ponds and fountains were drained.”
To read other recent STEM Professional/Guest Scientist blogs,
click here
. The blog is an online collaborative effort where scientists associated with GLOBE post their thoughts, comments, and philosophies about a variety of science topics. GLOBE strongly encourages positive and productive discussions to further advance the scientific understanding of all involved with The GLOBE Program.
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Keeping Up With GLOBE Star Stories? Read About Our Latest Stars!
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Have you been keeping up with the latest GLOBE Star Stories? GLOBE Stars are stories of projects, people, and extraordinary activities being conducted around the world in connection to GLOBE. GLOBE Stars are the bright lights that spark our imagination and inspire us with news of GLOBE at work in the world. Here are a few recent Star Stories:
Are you a GLOBE Star? Share Your Story!
Are you a GLOBE Star? If so, GLOBE wants to hear all about it! Send your story of people, projects, or activities to share on the GLOBE website. To learn more about GLOBE Stars, and to use the Star template for submitting your GLOBE Star Story
,
click here
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Join Millions around the World on 21 September for World Cleanup Day!
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World Cleanup Day 2018 united 18 million people across 157 countries and territories for the biggest waste collection day in human history. An epic 36-hour green wave of cleanups took place across the globe – beginning in New Zealand and traveling around the world before ending in Hawaii.
The 2019 World Cleanup Day will take place on 21 September. On that day, volunteers and partners worldwide again will come together to rid our planet of trash – cleaning up litter and mismanaged waste from our beaches, rivers, forests, and streets.
This world-changing idea began in the small northern European country of Estonia (a GLOBE country) in 2008. During that initial event, 50,000 people united to clean up the entire country in just five hours. A global bottom-up civic movement was born, and spread like wildfire around the globe. This captured the imaginations of people worldwide, who were inspired to follow suit with the same ambitious ‘one country, one day’ formula.
To learn more about this event, including how to participate,
click here
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Opportunities for Teachers
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(U.S. opportunities are often highlighted in the News Brief simply because we are more aware of them through our local media; however, if there are opportunities for GLOBE students and/or teachers in your region that you would like us to highlight in the coming months, please send the information to:
communications@globe.gov
.
Thank you!)
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NASA STEM Educator Webinars
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The
NASA STEM Educator Professional Development Collaborative
(EPDC) is presenting a series of
webinars
open to all educators. All pre-service, K-12, and informal educators, as well as university faculty, are invited to join NASA education specialists to learn about NASA missions, activities, lesson plans, educator guides, and online resources that integrate NASA and STEM into the classroom.
An upcoming webinar,
“
Moon to Mars: Mission and Resources Overview
,” is geared toward educators in grades K-12. On Thursday, 29 September (6:00 p.m. ET), the NASA EPDC at Texas State University is providing a one-hour webinar. As NASA expands human exploration by visiting the Moon and then Mars, deep space exploration will require innovations in transportation that include the Space Launch System, Orion, and Ground Launch Systems. This webinar begins with an overview of NASA’s plans for human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and continues with an overview of associated NASA education lessons, videos, fact sheets, printables, and training opportunities.
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National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Awards and Recognitions – Entries Must Be Submitted by 18 December!
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The annual NSTA Awards and Recognition Program, which recognizes exceptional and innovative science educators, began in 1973. The NSTA Awards and Recognition Program was created to raise awareness and to expose the outstanding work being done in the science education field. All entries must be received by 12 Noon ET on 18 December (via online submission). There are no entry fees.
For more information on the variety of awards, and how to submit entries,
click here
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Opportunities for Students
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U.S. GLOBE high school seniors: The Regeneron Science Talent Search (Regeneron STS) application is now open. Regeneron STS provides a forum for original research that is recognized and reviewed by a jury of professional scientists. Deadline for applications is Wednesday, 13 November, at 8:00 p.m. ET.
The Regeneron STS is the oldest and most prestigious science competition for high school seniors in the United States. Alumni have made extraordinary contributions to science and have earned many of the world’s most distinguished science and math honors, including thirteen Nobel Prizes. Annually, over 1,800 high school seniors from around the country accept the challenge of conducting independent science, math or engineering research, and completing an entry for the Regeneron Science Talent Search. The competition recognizes 300 student scholars and their schools each year and invites 40 student finalists to Washington, D.C., to participate in final judging, display their work to the public, and meet with notable scientists and government leaders. Each year, Regeneron STS scholars and finalists compete for $3.1 million in awards.
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Upcoming 2019 GLOBE Teacher Training Workshops
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Some of the upcoming GLOBE teacher training
workshops
include:
- Lelydrop, Suriname (GLOBE Zika Local Mosquito Workshop, Javawegkristina): 14 September (open to all)
- Terst, Italy (Atmosphere, Basics): 23 October (open to all)
- Terst, Italy (Hydrosphere, Basics): 23 October (open to all)
- Tanarive, Madagascar (INFP Mahamasina): 04-08 November (restricted attendance)
No training workshops in your area? Check out GLOBE’s protocol
eTraining
.
(In order to enter GLOBE data, GLOBE users must complete the necessary training either by attending a GLOBE workshop or by completing the required online eTraining modules. Once your training is complete, you will be ready to start entering your measurements – and will be joining a community of thousands of teachers around the world!)
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Congratulations to the eight GLOBE countries celebrating anniversaries of successful GLOBE implementation during the month of September:
Bulgaria – 21 years
08 September 1998
Chad – 24 years
27 September 1995
Japan – 19 years
11 September 2000
Liberia – 02 years
25 September 2017
Qatar – 19 years
27 September 2000
Saudi Arabia – 17 years
30 September 2002
Taiwan Partner – 06 years
06 September 2013
Thailand – 20 years
30 September 1999
Vietnam – 04 years
12 September 2015
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