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08/29/2024
Trees Within LAC Campaign: Knowing Precipitation: Key Concepts, Records and Impact Webinar Recording
On 15 August, GLOBE LAC staff held the seventh webinar of the "Trees Within LAC" campaign, entitled "Knowing Precipitation: Key Concepts, Records and Impacts." This Zoom event was attended by 33 participants from 12 countries in the region.
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08/28/2024
GLOBE South Africa Trains New Teachers
A teacher training workshop was recently held in South Africa. The workshop, which served rural schools, included 90 participants, 63 of whom were teachers.
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08/24/2024
The State of Trees – September 2024. The End of Year 6: Looking at Change Over Time with Tree Height and Land Cover
On 10 September at 12:00 n ET (16:00 UTC, 6:00 pm CET), GLOBE staff will say farewell to Year 6 of the campaign with a look back at the tree height and land cover data that can be used to look at change over time, including over the past 6 years.
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08/06/2024
The Student Experience at the 2024 GLOBE Annual Meeting
The 2024 GLOBE Annual Meeting Student Experience brought together 39 students from 10 countries, representing all six GLOBE regions, for 4 days of experiential learning about Earth systems science and climate resilience at SUNY Fredonia in Western New York, USA.
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08/05/2024
GLOBE Observer Connect: Taking GLOBE to Sea - A Live Chat with GLOBE Educator Christi Buffington and Students
Join us on 29 August at 8 pm ET (30 August 0:00 UTC) for a live conversation with educator Christi Buffington and some of the students who sailed a tall ship from Japan to Palau. While onboard, they used GLOBE protocols, including GLOBE Observer clouds, to track atmospheric and water conditions.
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08/02/2024
Announcing the 2025 International Virtual Science Symposium (IVSS) Theme
To coincide with GLOBE’s upcoming field campaign (described above), the theme of the 2025 IVSS is “30 Years of GLOBE: Understanding the Past, Present, and Future.” Since
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07/31/2024
GLOBE Observer Connect: A Live Chat with Ice Scientist Mohamed Adelkader
On 15 August 2024 at 12 noon ET (16:00 UTC) ice scientist Mohamed Adelkader will discuss his recently published paper in the journal Remote Sensing that presents a way to integrate GLOBE Observer observations of river ice with satellite data.
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07/17/2024
The State of Trees – August 2024. Continuing to Make Sense of the Land Cover and Tree Height Observations
On 20 August at 1:00 pm ET (17:00 UTC; 19:00 CET), GLOBE staff will discuss the importance of taking GLOBE ground-based land cover and tree height observations and making comparisons to the space-based NASA satellite data. They will showcase, and reinforce, the importance and ease of data analysis using online data tools.
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07/03/2024
NASA GPM 10-in-10 Webinar Series: Data
The seventh of the NASA “GPM 10-in-10” anniversary webinars will take place on 1 August at 8:00 pm ET [2 August, 00:00 UTC] and will focus on “data.” Join this webinar to find out how and why we use Earth-observing satellites to collect data, where you can access these free and openly sourced data, and how various NASA-sponsored programs are helping make data understandable and accessible to everyone!
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06/27/2024
2024 GLOBE Annual Meeting: Bus Schedule, Parking, Presentations, and More
The Annual Meeting is soon approaching (15–18 July in Fredonia, NY). Registration closed on 5 July. Additional information is included here about the bus/shuttle schedule, parking on SUNY campus, presentations, and the agenda.
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