News - Mission Earth

GME-UT staff traveled to Delta, Ohio on Friday May 13th, 2022 to help teach hundreds of 5th and 6th graders how to sample and analyze water from the Delta Reservoir using GLOBE hydrosphere protocols! Students also learned how to collect surface temperatures of different surfaces and compare that data. Dr. Kevin Czajkowski demonstrated how to do the analyses, and students split into groups with GME-UT Members Sara Mierzwiak, Dr. Yitong Jiang, Olawale Oluwafemi ("Femi"), and Farrokh Namjooyan to c >>

2nd Midwest Earth System Science Collaborative Virtual Science Symposium (SRS) was held on May 11, 2022. >>

Not far from the Oakland shoreline, where you can catch a dreamy, distant glimpse of the Golden Gate Bridge, is the middle school where Jess Kunz teaches science. It’s in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland: only a fifteen-minute drive away from the shore, but a world apart. Here, the mists of the San Francisco Bay give way to the gas fumes of cars; the blossomy seashore paths give way to pavement, concrete, and dense urban living. >>

This year's National Engineers Week runs from February 20 - 26, 2022, and Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day is February 24! This year's e-week theme is Reimagining the Possible. We have collected several resources to engage your students in engineering themes and challenges. >>

The Boston University GLOBE Mission EARTH group welcomes Sara Feit as a Research Scientist and Project Manager. >>

GLOBE Mission EARTH/University of Toledo was very busy in 2021 conducting a wide range of activities getting teachers, students and citizen scientists involved in GLOBE and utilizing NASA assets. Check out the details here! >>

Check out GLOBE Mission EARTH's latest short (1.5min) video highlighting our work! >>

GLOBE Mission EARTH (GME) Staff members Sara Mierzwiak and Dr. Yitong Jiang virtually visited Janene Smith's students at St. Peter's School in Mansfield, OH to talk about their ongoing research project into the Urban Heat Island Effect (UHIE) and to learn about the GLOBE Observer App's Land Cover section. Dr. Jiang gave a presentation about land cover/land use (LCLU) and instructed students on the use of the Land Cover part of the GLOBE Observer App. Sara Mierzwiak and Dr. Jiang both answered st >>

ICYMI! The recording is now available for this webinar! Tech Tools Webinar for Studying the Urban Heat Island Effect (UHIE) >>

Dr. David A. Padgett and Dr. Grove, travelled to Mobile, Alabama to capture low-altitude aerial photos (see drone photo below) at 14 points of interest for the proposed Africatown Connections Blueway (ACB) in collaboration with local citizen scientists. Ms. Gabby Mabayyed, GLOBE ME Undergraduate Research Assistant, incorporated drone and ground level photos into ArcGIS Online maps (https://arcg.is/1SbzOb). >>