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Looking Back on 2025
In 2025, the GLOBE Program reached an amazing milestone—30 years!
Hundreds of you joined us to celebrate 30 years through our anniversary broadcast, which has more than 1,800 views. Many of you contributed to the GLOBE Community Poem, which culminated in this moving video. More than 150 sites submitted 3,100+ measurements in response to the Air Temperature Challenge! And hundreds of you have continued to engage through the GLOBE Annual Meeting and Learning Sessions.
The 30 Years of GLOBE Campaign launched with a student design logo contest and inspired the theme for the 2025 International Virtual Science Symposium (IVSS), which received over 400 submissions from all six GLOBE regions. Many thanks to the 380 IVSS volunteer judges.
In addition to contributing to GLOBE’s global measurement campaigns and intensive observation periods on mosquitos, trees, snow view, and surface temperature, GLOBE participants contributed data to research at NASA, NOAA, and others!
We provided data for ground validation to improve NASA’s Earth Systems Monitoring GEDI (Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation) L4a biomass product through a GLOBE Africa-led initiative. NASA Scientist Dr. Yoseline Angel requested GLOBE land cover observations for her research on wildflower and tree flower blooms to help her identify blooms in satellite data. And our weather observations are now being shared with NOAA MADIS, connecting GLOBE’s data to the larger meteorological community. We also worked with the NASA Disaster Response Coordination System team to gather more than 2,600 land cover photos to document change before and after big storms through NASA Response Mappers. And we collaborated with Business Professionals of America (BPA) to include GLOBE skills for the 2026 Workforce Skills Assessment Program (WSAP) competition. In collaboration with SciStarter, GLOBE volunteers submitted more than 15,000 clouds, land cover, mosquito habitat, and trees observations, contributing a total of 17,865 acts of science toward SciStarter's goal of a million! Many of these highlights (and more!) were captured in our 2024–25 GLOBE Annual Review.
The year 2025 reflects the incredible work of our RCOs, their staff, and the regions they represent through the many regional highlights shared over the year. We encourage you to watch a recent Learning Session featuring the work of the RCOs for a snapshot of their many accomplishments.
News origin: GLOBE Implementation Office