GLOBE News

The GLOBE Mission Mosquito (GMM) webinar, “Mission Mosquito Larvae Hunter’s Field Guide Training” will be held on Thursday, 08 September, at 02:00 p.m. EDT (06:00 p.m. UTC).  >>

The GLOBE Implementation Office (GIO) has selected the site of the 2023 Annual Meeting: Colorado, USA. The community-wide collaborative event will take place in mid-July 2023.  >>

Congratulations to the ten GLOBE countries celebrating anniversaries of successful GLOBE implementation during the month of September.  >>

The GLOBE Implementation Office (GIO), including the Community Support Team, will be closed Monday, 05 September, to celebrate the U.S. Labor Day holiday.  >>

A paper published on 21 June in Environmental Research, “The potential of citizen science data to complement satellite and airborne lidar tree height measurements: Lessons from The GLOBE Program,” focuses on The GLOBE Program’s app, GLOBE Observer Trees tool.  >>

Mosquitoes infect hundreds of millions of people around the world with diseases, such as yellow fever, malaria, dengue, and the Zika virus. These diseases have serious health impacts and kill millions of people each year. According to the World Health Organization, more than 50 percent of the world’s population is at risk of contracting a mosquito-borne illness.  >>

The Lake Pokhara Expedition will take place from 27 September through 03 October at Phewa Lake, which is a fresh-water mountain lake of ecological significance located in the southern part of Pokhara Valley.  >>

How do your trees measure up? Get ready to find out! The GLOBE Program will be hosting a new data challenge, via the program’s mobile app, GLOBE Observer, which will begin in October and run through November.  >>

A paper published on 27 July 2022 in the journal Insects, “Integrating Global Citizen Science Platforms to Enable Next-Generation Surveillance of Invasive and Vector Mosquitoes” highlights how data from multiple citizen science apps, including The GLOBE Program’s app, GLOBE Observer Mosquito Habitat Mapper and Land Cover, allow the general public to provide images of mosquito specimens and breeding habitats using smartphones.  >>

The Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign will begin Year 05 on 01 October 2022. The focus for Year 5 will be: “Looking at Change Over Time and Organizing Student Research.”  >>