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Placement: Poltava school № 38
Cordinates: 49°59'31'' n.l., 34°53'27'' e.l.
Tree height: 5 m
Description: dry buds and leaves can be observed on the branches after winter end. A hole in the south side of the tree trunk was made by children to the sap flow.
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Placement: park "Peremoha"
Cordinates: 49°34'38'' n.l., 34°33'45'' e.l.
Tree height: 30 m
Trunk diameter: 2 m
Description: an oak is a representative of botanical natural monument in our town. Dry leaves can be observed on the branches after winter end.
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Placement: the museum-estate of Ivan Kotlyarevskii.
Cordinates: 49°34'54'' n.l., 34°34'04'' e.l.
Tree height: 3 m
Description: on the branches of cherries you can see the formation of buds.
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Carbon is needed for the growth of our tree, it has a positive effect on leaves, stems and roots
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Field Campaigns:
Carbon Cycle
Surface Temperature
GLOBE Science Topics:
GLOBE Protocols
GLOBE Working Groups:
Education Working Group
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Biosphere
Learning Activities:
Atmosphere and Climate
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Student Research Reports:
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Hoy quiero compartir con todos acerca del trabajo de mi compañero del equipo de diversidad, equidad, e inclusión de GLOBE, Juan Felipe Restrepo, quien me contó todo lo referente a un evento que él ayudó a organizar y que hizo destacar a un grupo de niñas y mujeres científicas. El panel "Mujeres y Alas" se realizó el viernes 13 de noviembre de 2020, en el marco del VII Festival de las Aves Migratorias de Caribe Colombiano. Este evento fue coordinado y liderado por el Colegio Montessori de Cartagena que a su vez es es Coordinador del Festival junto la Asociación Calidris y la...
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Today I want to share about the amazing work by a fellow GLOBE’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task member! My friend Juan Felipe Restrepo shared with me about a special event he helped organized that showcased the great work of several female scientists! The panel “Women and Wings” took place in November 2020, as part of the VII Festival of Migratory Birds of the Colombian Caribbean. This event was coordinated and led by Colegio Montessori de Cartagena, which is also the coordinator of the festival in conjunction with Asociación Calidris and Fundación Serena del Mar. The panel’s...
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Each cloud observation submitted using the GLOBE Observer app or through The GLOBE Program is compared to data from multiple satellites. A satellite match is when satellite data is identified that corresponds to a cloud observation. For orbiting satellites the observation must be within 15 minutes before or after a satellite’s overpass. Geostationary satellites, like the GOES satellites, are always observing the same location. If you are in the United States, you are likely to get a satellite match to a GOES satellite. These satellites are sending data every 15 minutes. As long as the...
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Science and Math
STEM
GLOBE Science Topics:
Backyard Science
Climate
General Science
GLOBE Protocols
Earth as a System
Earth System Science
Scientist Skills
Investigation Areas:
Atmosphere
Earth As a System
News Topics:
Community Letters
News Briefs
Primary Audience:
Alumni
Country Coordinators
Partners
Scientists
Students
Teachers
Trainers
Early in the morning here are high clouds in the sky .
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Sky is clear but high clouds are here in the morning in the south .
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Sky is clear . Shining sun having clouds , perhaps .it is surprising .
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Sky is clear but clouds are here .
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The University of New Hampshire Carbon Cycle team has started to curate a list of resources that compliment GLOBE Carbon Cycle activities and Protocols. These include videos, websites, peer reviewed articles, and a Q&A section with Dr. Scott Ollinger, ecosystem ecologist at UNH and PI on the Carbon Cycle Project.
These resources have been sent to us over the past few years, and have found a home here: https://www.globe.gov/web/leitzel-center/home/carbon-cycle-resources. As we encounter more, we will continue to build this list. If you have resources that you use...
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The NASA GLOBE Clouds team at NASA Langley Research Center is working with NASA scientist Dr. Bill Smith to use GLOBE Cloud observations made by people just like you to solve the Terminator Problem!
Wait, what? Well, the Solar Terminator or twilight zone is that line that separates the daylit side of a planet from the dark night side. The image on the left is an example. It was taken from the International Space Station as it crossed the terminator on April 17, 2019 as it orbits 254 miles above the Gulf of Guinea on Africa’s mid-western coast.
How can...
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Education Research
Science and Math
Technology
STEM
GLOBE Science Topics:
Backyard Science
Climate
Climate Change
Data Included
General Science
GLOBE Protocols
Earth as a System
Earth System Science
Scientist Skills
Investigation Areas:
Atmosphere
Earth As a System
Learning Activities:
Atmosphere and Climate
Earth as a System
News Topics:
Community Letters
News Briefs
Student Research Reports:
Standard Research Report
International Virtual Science Symposium Report
U.S. Student Research Symposia (SRS)
Have you ever seen a tree snap due to high winds or a lightning strike?
Back in March 2020, I saw a beautiful Bradford Pear tree starting to bloom with its pale yellow-white blossoms. I thought that this would be a very nice, isolated tree to take a NASA GLOBE Observer tree height observation.
Tree Height - March 15, 2020, 19.41m, Bradford Pear, Salisbury, Maryland USA
Let's fast forward to August 4, 2020. At this time, the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States was being greatly affected by the remnants of Hurricane Isaias. By this time, the hurricane was downgraded to...
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Our universe may be filled with unseen giants. Astronomers have discovered two giant radio galaxies, which are some of the largest-known objects in the universe. This revelation suggests that the enormous galaxies may be more common than previously believed.
The study published Monday in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Astronomers found the two galaxies in new radio maps that were created using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa.
Radio galaxies, which can be quite common, are brightest in radio wavelengths of light. Centaurus A is a...
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Para mi primer post del 2021, quiero compartir acerca del increíble trabajo de nuestro amigo Mike Jabot y sus colegas. Conversé con Mike hace un par de semanas, y me enteré de que él ha participado en un proyecto colaborativo entre la Nación Séneca y USDA Northeast Climate Hub. El proyecto se llama “Conectando a la juventud a el agua cambiante”. A través de este proyecto, los jóvenes han participado en oportunidades de aprendizaje a la vez que ayudan a una granja a reintroducir cultivos nativos conocidos como las “tres hermanas” (maíz, frijoles, y calabaza). Los jóvenes aprendieron a...
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For my first post in 2021, I want to share about the amazing work performed by our friend Mike Jabot and his colleagues. I conversed with Mike a couple weeks ago, and I learned that he participated in a joint project between the Seneca Nation and the USDA Northeast Climate Hub called, “Connecting Youth to the Changing Water”. Through this project, the youth were engaged in learning opportunities while helping the farm reintroduce native crops known as the “three sisters” (corn, beans, and squash). The youth learned about planting, harvesting, and storing the crops. While working on their...
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In May 2020, citizen scientist Carmen Mandel met two major milestones: she marked her one-year anniversary of being a GLOBE Observer and she single-handedly expanded the Clouds satellite match data by 36%. Carmen uses GLOBE Observer to record clouds 2-3 times daily every time she gets a notification that a NASA satellite is overhead. She sends her data to GLOBE, but then she records her observation in her own clouds journal. When she receives an email from NASA Langley Research Center matching her observation to satellite data, she adds that to her journal as well.
On...
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GLOBE Science Topics:
Backyard Science
Data Included
Earth System Science
General Science
Investigation Areas:
Atmosphere
Atmosphere » Clouds
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Alumni
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Students
Definitivamente este ha sido un año complicado; sin embargo, también pasaron cosas muy buenas.
Me siento agradecida por la oportunidad de unirme a un grupo de gente súper trabajadora, creativa y apasionada de alrededor del mundo. He aprendido mucho de mis compañeros del equipo de diversidad, equidad e inclusión de GLOBE durante este año, y estoy emocionada de continuar nuestro trayecto, trabajando juntos para ayudar a que GLOBE sea una comunidad más acogedora cada día. Más que verlos como colegas, ¡considero a cada miembro de el equipo de GLOBE DEI como parte de mi familia!
Este año,...
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This has definitely been a tough year, but very good things also happened!
I feel grateful for the opportunity to join a group of hard-working, creative, and passionate people from around the world. My fellow members of the GLOBE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force have taught me a lot this year, and I look forward to continuing our journey, working together to help make GLOBE a more welcoming community every day. More than colleagues, I consider each member of the GLOBE DEI team, as part of my family!
This year, I also witnessed the commitment and the dedication of GLOBE teachers...
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Have you ever wondered what happens after you press submit on your International Virtual Science Symposium (IVSS) report?
The GLOBE Implementation Office (GIO) Education team gets to work!
Ok, that might be a little misleading because work on the IVSS already started back in August when we started planning for the 2021 IVSS. And while learning about planning webinars and recruiting judges might be something you are interested in; this is not what this blog post will cover. This is the “story” of what happens after teachers upload their students’ projects and press the big blue SUBMIT...
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Virtual Science Fair
Primary Audience:
Alumni
Country Coordinators
Partners
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Students
Teachers
Trainers
Student Research Reports:
International Virtual Science Symposium Report
Images taken by Wilson Bentley and property of the Jericho Historical Society.
Did you know that clouds have names? As the title of the GLOBE Elementary book says, clouds do have names. Those names describe the altitude and the appearance of the cloud. Cumulus means pile in Latin, so the name is used to describe low puffy clouds in the sky. Cirrus means locks of hair, and is used to describe those thin wispy clouds found high up in the sky. Some people think that nimbus is a type of cloud, but it is not. It is an affix, or a word that works as a prefix or a suffix. The affix nimbus...
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Assessment and Evaluation
GLOBE Science Topics:
Backyard Science
Investigation Areas:
Atmosphere
Learning Activities:
Atmosphere and Climate
News Topics:
Community Letters
Primary Audience:
Alumni
Lectures, lessons, and learning opportunities of all kinds are available online these days… luckily, air quality investigations can be, too! Publically available sources of air quality data, which can be accessed any time and anywhere, can be used in conjunction with or in lieu of the GLOBE Aerosols Protocol for students and teachers participating in the US Air Quality Student Research Campaign. This blog post will introduce a website which can be used to conduct air quality investigations with a ground-based instrument, called the PurpleAir.
The PurpleAir is a small, commercially...
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Lectures, lessons, and learning opportunities of all kinds are available online these days… luckily, air quality investigations can be, too! Publically available sources of air quality data, which can be accessed any time and anywhere, can be used in conjunction with or in lieu of the GLOBE Aerosols Protocol for students and teachers participating in the US Air Quality Student Research Campaign. This blog post will introduce a website called AerosolWatch, an online access point for satellite-based observations of aerosols, and factors that affect air quality (such as smoke and dust).
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The big announcement this month was that we made the difficult decision to cancel the 2021 Student Research Symposia. We have some other activities that we will working on instead, which will support the IVSS and SRS into the future! In other news, I attended a couple virtual multi-day meetings and had lots of resources cross my desk. Some of those are listed below. I look forward to 2021 and the close of 2020. It has been a rough year but kindness abounds and teachers are amazing in supporting students throughout this public health crisis – they inspire me each day. Peace to all of the...
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