Current Data Collection Opportunities

GLOBE Cup Challenge

During the World Cup (11 June to 19 July), join the GLOBE Program in collecting environmental data where the world plays soccer (football)! Go to your local soccer (football) field, park, schoolyard, or anywhere people play, and take observations.

World Cup athletes will compete on cultivated grass fields in a wide range of environmental conditions. Your observations can help us explore how playing environments differ across regions, climates, and field surfaces.

Trees Around the GLOBE Campaign

Created in conjunction with NASA's ICESat-2 satellite launch, the Trees Around the GLOBE Campaign focuses on providing ground-truth tree height measurements for NASA scientists. By studying the height of the trees in a particular area, researchers can construct 3D models of a forest's canopy, informing them on a number of environmental factors from the land's carbon and to how the ecosystem itself functions.

In this campaign, participants can gather data on the tree height in their local habitat as well as baseline measurements like air and surface temperature.

GLOBE Mission Mosquito

A global collaboration between scientists, local governments, public health officials, and the GLOBE community, Mission Mosquito focuses on monitoring changes in the frequency, range and distribution of potential disease vector mosquitoes. By combining ground-truth mosquito larvae measurements with NASA satellite data, researchers can determine important information about mosquito habitats that local governments can then use for public health initiatives.

In this campaign, participants can use the GLOBE Observer Mosquito Habitat Mapper mobile app to photograph bodies of standing water, determine the number and species of mosquito larvae present, take a Land Cover observation also, and, if possible-dump or tip water in containers.