Blog - David Overoye

Often it seems there’s software that sounds like it will be some amazing new tool or bring some amazing new capabilities.  However, once you try it out, it’s easy to be less impressed. The tools either don’t deliver on what they promise, or just aren’t as cool as you might have thought. Every once in a while however there’s something that comes out that really does kind of blow me away....

Changes at Davis require weather station users to change the way they report data to GLOBE. This applies to older systems which use the email data entry system.

I had a chance to visit the GLOBE country Croatia recently (beautiful!) and was asked to prepare some training material on how to use GLOBE’s data retrieval systems – Vis and ADAT.  In putting together the training material I wanted to do something that would give people a chance to try out the tools and do some analysis on their own. Here’s the presentation on the Vis system with a couple...

Wanted to post an update on new capabilities that are in the works right now...we hope to see these features coming out in the months ahead: GLOBE Observer 1) We're working on the Hydrosphere protocols to add to the current set of Atmosphere protocols. 2) A new geofencing option is in test that will allow scientists to ask users to collect certain data at certain times and certain...

We've successfully moved the GLOBE environment to it's new hosting location.  Hopefully not much has changed for you - but it all should be working. Tell the helpdesk if you find any issues - thank you!

I've heard a number of folks wish they could track how many observations individual users have performed in a GLOBE team.  We're working on building that out on the website, along with tracking individual student contributions for schools.  In the mean time, I made this spreadsheet which will figure it out for you if you know the user's UserID.  Enter the date range, protocol and...

Spent quite a bit of time working on upgrading the software which runs the www.globe.gov website. The new environment went live on 11/16/2020. Although it may not look too different, behind the scenes a lot has changed. It also gives us some new capabilities and features in a more secure environment.  We'll be advertising and using these new features in the time ahead.  Hope all...

We've been busy for the last few months updating the GLOBE website with a new look and feel and new features.  The goal is to both refresh the site as well as to really highlight all the work everyone is doing.  You'll find new capabilities on the home page including an animation of the last 7 days worth of data, and a "leaderboard" for each protocol.  If you're looking for...

Congratulations to the GLOBE community - the GLOBE Observer app now has over 50,000 registered users!   That of course has an impact on the GLOBE system...We're getting ready for the eclipse right now - we have a few things to do to support everyone.  We're expecting on the order of 50-100 data measurements per second, which could result in 4 million cloud files during the eclipse...

We are working on a new visualization system.  The new system keeps many of the capabilities of the old "vis" system, but works much better on phones and tablets.  We've tried to streamline and modernize things as well. Take a look at the "beta" version of the system at:  https://visbeta.globe.gov Remember - 3 steps to visualizing your data: 1) What data do you want to...