Stars and STEM Stories

This past November, a team of GLOBE Oman students summitted Jebel Shams, the highest peak in the Arabian Gulf. They recorded the temperature of the summit and measured some local trees using GLOBE Observer. Learn more.  >>

GLOBE Madagascar has created a strategy of using GLOBE alumni as mentors for their GLOBE students. Read about how this works and the benefits of having students mentored by their more experienced peers.  >>

Berks Nature uses the GLOBE Program as a central part of its community science efforts. GLOBE provides standardized protocols for data collection on local watersheds, the atmosphere, biosphere, and pedosphere, all of which are integral to Berks Nature’s environmental monitoring and conservation efforts. This partnership has also allowed Berks Nature to train adult volunteers, known as “community scientists,” to collect useful and reliable data.  >>

GLOBE Oman students are collecting data observations on local aflaj (traditional water canals). Their intention is to continue to collect data and compare current data with previously uploaded data to learn about environmental changes that may cause problems for the aflaj in the future.  >>

The first Guatemalan delegation of students to participate in the IVSS was able to join the GLOBE Latin America and Caribbean Regional Meeting in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in October 2024. These students, from the STEAM Program Guatemala, are preparing a report for the 2025 IVSS on forest cover and the prevalence of Dengue due to the increase of mosquitos in the region.  >>

GLOBE Dominican Republic students presented their research on microplastics at two events in 2024: World Water Day (Giornata Mondiale Dell'Aqua) in Mantua, Italy, and Science Fair 2024. The research was also highlighted at the recent Latin American and Caribbean Regional Meeting.  >>

Earlier this year, the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) selected the Bayahibe rose, Dominican Republic’s national flower, as the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2024 official mascot. This development is particularly exciting for GLOBE Dominican Republic’s community because they had a direct influence in naming the Bayahibe rose as the flower to represent this Caribbean nation.  >>

GLOBE Guatemala students have learned to use a clinometer to measure an enormous native Kapok tree. This tree is over 200 years old, 43 m tall, and 18 m wide.  >>

As students across the world begin to think about GLOBE research projects for 2025 International Virtual Science Symposium (IVSS), a GLOBE educator in Croatia shares the impact that participating in the 2024 IVSS had on her students.   >>

GLOBE Oman was busy this October. Read a few examples of how they are implementing GLOBE and fostering environmental stewardship and STEM skills, including exciting field trips to a farm, groundwater reservoir, and sites that grow the Farfar plant; in-school celebrations for World Space Week; and Arab Environment Day.   >>