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Dear GLOBE community,
GLOBE turned 30 in April, and we were thrilled to see celebrations happening around the world. Nearly 150 people joined us for the live 30th anniversary broadcast, where we launched an air temperature data challenge from GLOBE citizen scientists in Alaska. We also announced the 2025–26 student vloggers, shared the International Virtual Student Symposium (IVSS) teams selected for the Annual Meeting Student Experience, and more. You can still join in the ongoing celebrations—see below for details!
An upcoming Springer Nature publication will feature the impact of the GLOBE Program, and the editors are looking for contributors from the community! Please consider sharing your GLOBE stories and experiences.
Thank you to everyone who took the 2025 GLOBE Instrumentation and Training Process Survey. Your feedback is vital in helping us improve resources and systems for the GLOBE community! We will share a summary of responses in a future newsletter.
We are also finalizing plans for the virtual 2025 GLOBE Annual Meeting. The main meeting will take place 14–15 July, with additional events to follow. Thank you to all who submitted nominations and session proposals—we look forward to an engaging and informative event. Stay tuned for registration details!
The GLOBE community poem will be presented at the Annual Meeting, and there is still time to contribute! We want to bring together as many community voices as we can. Contribute a photo, a sentence, or a paragraph following the poem’s prompts. See what’s been shared so far.
Welcome to Dr. Ricardo Toledo-Crow, new GLOBE STEPE rotating scientist. Dr. Toledo-Crow leads the Next Generation Sensor Laboratory at the Environmental Sciences Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, at CUNY. His work focuses on developing small, low-power, low-cost environmental sensors for measuring carbon dioxide, particulates, volatile organic compounds, as well as noise, temperature, humidity, and pressure. We are so pleased to have him join the GLOBE Implementation Office (GIO). Read more about Dr. Toledo-Crow in his bio in the Science section of the GIO webpage.
The 2025 IVSS has concluded with record-breaking participation. A record number of volunteer judges reviewed a record number of student submissions. More than 200 students earned the “I am a Data Scientist” badge! We look forward to building on this success. The 2026 IVSS theme will be “GLOBE Data Detectives: Using Data to Explore Change in Your Local Environment.” Like this year, it will focus on data literacy and will encourage students to use both GLOBE and NASA satellite mission data.
Our GLOBE International STEM Network (GISN) continues to grow. Please share information about the GISN with your STEM professional colleagues. The next GISN meeting is on 22 May—see below for details.
Thank you for all you do to bring GLOBE experiences to participants and to enrich the program. If you have any questions or needs, please contact us at help@nasaglobe.org.
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