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GLOBE Cup Challenge
Whether you play soccer (football), cheer from the sidelines, coach a team, or simply live near a field, you can help investigate the environment where soccer (football) is played in your community. Is the field surrounded by trees, buildings, dirt, or pavement? Is it grass, artificial turf, or another surface? How do temperatures compare from one day to the next — and how does your local field compare to fields around the world?
During the World Cup, from 11 June to 19 July, participate in the GLOBE Cup Challenge by joining the GLOBE Team in your region and taking observations of air temperature, surface temperature, and/or land cover at your local soccer (football) field, park, schoolyard, or anywhere people play.
Let’s see which GLOBE region is the biggest soccer (football) fan! We’ll track participation around the world and highlight observations and soccer (football) fields from different GLOBE regions. Learn more.
Join us during the GO Connect: Kicking Off the GLOBE Cup Challenge on 11 June at 12 pm ET (16:00 UTC) for a conversation with scientists (and soccer fans) Dr. Eric Brown de Colstoun from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Dr. Kevin Czajkowski from the University of Toledo, where they will explore the science of how the type of ground where people play soccer (football) influences the surrounding temperature.
News origin: GLOBE Implementation Office