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2025-12-18
Maine and New Hampshire Youth Observe Leaf Color Changes with Gulf of Maine Research Institute
This fall, more than 50 educators and 1,500 young people from the northern tip of Maine to southern New Hampshire engaged in leaf color change observations and local ecosystem research through the Gulf of Maine Research Institute’s GLOBE Green-Down field season.
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2025-12-11
Montana Middle Schoolers Excel with GLOBE Mentors
Students at Ronan Middle School in Montana take advantage of mentoring and opportunities to share their research at various student research symposia.
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2025-12-10
Remembering U.S. GLOBE Partner Dr. Barbie Buckner
Dr. Barbie Buckner passed away on Sunday, December 7, 2025. Barbie joined the NASA Langley Science Activation team in 2024 after many years of dedicated service within NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement.
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2025-12-09
GLOBE Students at Texas High School Help with Public Health Research
High school students at the University Academy at Tyler (Texas, USA) were invited to contribute soil data to a public health study led by Dr. Jennifer Honda at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler.
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2025-12-02
New Resource Helps with Hosting Local Student Research Symposium
The GLOBE U.S. Coordination Office developed the Local Student Research Symposium Quick Start Guide to help educators and community leaders as they host their own student research symposia (SRS). SRS are opportunities for students to share research, sharpen science communication skills, and develop their identities as scientists.
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2025-11-25
GLOBE Mission Earth Presents an Introduction to GLOBE Course
The online course “GLOBE SPARKS — Supporting Practice, Awareness, Research, and Knowledge for Science” created by GLOBE Mission Earth is now available for use by the GLOBE community.
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2025-11-17
Preschoolers Exploring their Environment with GLOBE
A new Preschool Nature Explorers program is now available to learners at a preschool in downtown Seattle that welcomes children of all abilities. This program is a collaboration between U.S. GLOBE Partner Dr. Tsurusaki (University of Washington - Bothell), the Seattle Public Library, and the Northwest Center preschool.
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2025-09-29
GLOBE Mission Earth Calculates Reach of GLOBE SciAct Projects
The NASA Science Activation (SciAct) program connects people of all ages and backgrounds with science content, experts, data and more from NASA’s Science Mission Directorate to encourage participation in science. This is accomplished through collaboration between SciAct project teams, including some GLOBE Partnerships, working within their communities across the U.S.
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2025-08-13
Earth Around Us Tents—Reports from U.S. GLOBE Partners
The U.S. GLOBE Office provided funding to additional Partnerships to integrate the Earth Around Us soil and water tents into their programming. Each Partnership recently submitted reports on their activities.
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2025-07-23
2024 U.S. GLOBE Partner Yearbook is Available for Download
The 2024 U.S. GLOBE Partner Yearbook is available for viewing and sharing. The yearbook includes background information about the U.S. Country Coordination Office activities, news stories about people throughout the U.S. using GLOBE in their communities, and provides highlights from 34 GLOBE Partners — colleges, universities, nonprofits, and other organizations who support educators and citizen scientists in their communities.
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