News - North America

The Northwest Regional Student Research Symposium took place on 02-04 May. The event was hosted by GLOBE Partner Dr. Blakely Tsurusaki at Beach Camp at Sunset Bay in Edmonds, Washington. Ten students and five GLOBE teachers from Alaska, Montana, and Washington attended. Student projects were reviewed by their peers, local scientists, and ten GLOBE partners and scientists who joined virtually through Zoom.  >>

Congratulations to the 71 Students and 13 GLOBE teachers presenting research projects at the 2019 Pacific U.S. GLOBE Student Research Symposium (SRS). Student projects were reviewed by their peers and by scientists from NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA Ames, WestEd, and Chabot Space and Science Center. The event also included networking, keynotes, and exploration of the natural marine ecosystem.  >>

Join us Friday, 03 May, at 10:30 a.m. PT (1:30 p.m. ET) from the Northwest Student Research Symposium, which is taking place at Beach Camp in Edmunds, Washington, USA.  >>

NASA Langley's GLOBE Team Celebrated Earth Day by observing clouds with the 4th and 5th grade students at Samuel P. Langley Elementary School on April 22nd. Each of the 165 students were provided with their own cloud charts, observation forms and sky viewers, which they used while rotating through a series of stations guiding them through the process of making a cloud observation. Their observations were submitted and the corresponding satellite matches will be shared with the teachers. Students, teachers and the team enjoyed a morning full of cloudy skies and science process skills in action.  >>

Join GLOBE Observer LIVE for a special Facebook Live event all about Trees on 26 March 2018 at 3:00 p.m. EDT.  >>

Healthy forests play a crucial role in Earth’s ecosystem as growing trees take up carbon from the atmosphere. NASA satellites and airborne missions study forests to see how carbon moves through ecosystems – and now citizen scientists can help investigate this key question as well by using their smartphone to measure tree height.  >>

The Institute for Research in Science Teaching at SUNY Fredonia has received a NOAA B-WET Great Lakes Grant. This grant is in partnership with the New York State Department of Conservation.  >>

Citizen scientists from all of the GLOBE regions -- and from 25 countries -- participated in the 2018 Land Cover Challenge.  >>

GLOBE Observer Land Cover is kicking off with a data challenge to map as much land as possible between 22 Sept., Public Lands Day, and 1 Oct., NASA’s 60th anniversary.  >>

The Land Cover feature is now available, and just in time for National Public Lands Day. Join GLOBE Observer LIVE from one of our public lands, the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon for a special Facebook Live event on 17 September 2018 at 3:30 p.m. PDT.  >>