Events - Oman

Please join the GLOBE Observer team on 8 pm ET on 12 December (1:00 am UTC 13 December) for a GLOBE Observer Connect conversation with Callie Davis. During her summer internship with Dixie National Forest, Callie used the GLOBE Observer Land Cover tool to recreate a series of historic photos taken by her parents, who worked for the USDA Forest Service in the 1990s to survey the land. She will share some of the changes she observed.  >>

On 5 December at 10:00 am ET (3:00 pm UTC, 16:00 CET), listen in on a discussion between Dr. Russ Congalton, the original GLOBE Land Cover Protocol scientist, and Peder Nelson, scientist and GLOBE Program partner who currently supports the GLOBE Observer Land Cover tool. Hear their answers to how changes in technology have impacted GLOBE data, and what they believe the scientific legacy of GLOBE data is.  >>

GLOBE Mission Earth is hosting a webinar for the Urban Heat Island (UHI) Intensive Observation Period (IOP) on Monday, 2 December 2024, at 3 pm ET (8 pm UTC). This webinar will highlight studying different surfaces at your schools and how teachers, students, and citizen scientists can participate. Here is the webinar information to participate in the UHI IOP.  >>

Join Tracy Ostrom, GLOBE Mission Earth Project Coordinator, in this interactive webinar on collecting, organizing and 'cleaning' GLOBE data!  >>

The Near East and North Africa (NENA) Regional Meeting will be held 13–16 November in Abu Dhabi, UAE. More information to come.  >>

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GLOBE is hosting a new data entry challenge from 11-17 October 2015! Data collection is at the heart of The GLOBE Program – and it takes a world to contribute the scientific and environmental measurements that help GLOBE fulfill its vision of a worldwide community of students, teachers, scientists, and citizens working together to better understand, sustain, and improve Earth's environment at local, regional, and global scales. GIO is calling on you to dig in even deeper and continue to make your data count! With your help, it all adds up!  >>

To support the SMAP satellite mission, NASA has initiated a 7-month-long Soil Moisture Measurement Campaign and invites GLOBE schools to participate. The SMAP Campaign begins 1 October 2015 and will be ongoing through 30 April 2016.  >>

Since 2008, an international team of GLOBE scientists, teachers and students have been trekking to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to evaluate the evolving ecosystem of the largest freestanding mountain in the world. The 2015 Mt. Kilimanjaro Xpedition begins on 24 September.  >>

The 19th GLOBE Annual Partner Meeting will be held in Los Angeles, California, USA. Partners, scientists, sponsors and student researchers, reserve the dates: 20-24 July 2015.  >>