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The hotel and dorm rooms are being reserved across the country for the United States Regional Student Research Symposia (SRS) . The agendas are roughed out. The speakers are confirming. Students are carrying out GLOBE protocols and analyzing data. Teachers are applying for funding to support team travel (due February 1st). All of this gives me a chance to think about the students that have attended the SRS the past two years. GLOBE Partnership coordinators, GIO and I have met some incredible students and teachers. We'll be posting their stories for you to read too. The first one is...

Note: The post below was originally sent out to South Dakota GLOBE trained educators as the Winter E-News ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hello SD GLOBE Educator! I’m touching base briefly with all the GLOBE goodness happening in our state. Data and Stipends Thank you to those who have entered data for the last quarter of 2017. Those who have reported data are Julie Olson, Vikki Hasche, Jane Amiotte, Deb Springman, Robert Stahl, Jonathan Stahl, Patty Martin. If you entered data and are not listed above, please let me know. If you did not get a chance to...

Let me tell you what is going on in parts of my country. People are cutting trees very brutally and no alternate trees are there. As a result, the weather in Pakistan is changed drastically over the last 5 years. We face smog during winter and its third time that I am facing a worst weather in Lahore in December every year.  What we need is to be a little extra careful when it come to environment. We need to know that being from the same planet, our actions effect each other in good and bad equally. If we are good enough to cultivate a few trees before cutting any, we will have a...

Satellites can detect and collect a lot of observations in very short amount of time. It is simple to think that anything that is white in an image is a cloud. Well, not always.  Look at these beautiful images taken by the GOES 16 satellite of the recent "Winter Weather Bomb" that left a blanket of snow from South Georgia to New England on January 4, 2018. Click here and watch a loop of images from the GOES 16 satellite for January 4, 2018. GOES 16 Image taken on January 4, 2018 at 171720Z GOES 16 Image taken on January 4, 2018 at 201720Z   ...

As many of us have seen on the news recently , a great many people in southern California were impacted by mudslides last night. We know these dangerous natural disasters occur all over the world. Scientists globally are working hard to be able to better predict these devastating events. You can learn more about the use of NASA's satellite data to detect potential landslides here .  I recently attended a hearing for government officials that focused on the increasing danger we face from landslides and mudslides and wrote this blog that summarized many of the reports...