Webinars - Trees around the GLOBE
Webinars
Webinars are a vital part of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign. Each month we focus on the scientific research of trees, bringing in experts from around the world to share their current research experiences with trees and the importance of the GLOBE protocol measurements to understanding our planet's trees and their roles in our Earth's ecosystem. During the webinars, we will hear from researchers from inside and outside of NASA, GLOBE Students and Teachers, and Citizen Scientists.
Please send an email to Campaign Lead, Brian Campbell, if you have interest in joining the webinars.
Upcoming Webinars for Year 6
Tuesday, December 5, 2023 @ 10:00am EST (3:00pm UTC, 4:00pm CET). The State of Trees - December 2023. A Mini Forest Revolution around the Globe: Sharing experiences from Schools, Villages, and Urban Neighborhoods. Forests and trees are a vital part of our planet, providing habitats for our planet's creatures to playing an important role in our planet's carbon budget. Join this special webinar as we hear from colleagues around the world about their experiences with Miyawaki Forests and planting trees. From the planting of over 200,000 trees and over 100 forests in India to restoring forests in countries such as Belgium, reversing the deterioration of the Beirut River by planting native trees, to how creating forests, with students in the United States, has helped students understand the importance of trees and forests to our ever-changing planet. We will also hear from author Hannah Lewis and about the Miyawaki forests.
Our featured presenters:
Emmanuel D’Silva, Agriculture & Environment Scientist, will present an overview of the Miyawaki Method used in setting up mini forests around the world.
Neelam Patil, Science Teacher, USA, will speak about the three-layered, ultra-dense forests she has created at Cragmont Elementary School in Berkeley, California with help from her students. She has also started a nonprofit, Green Pocket Forests, to bring Miyawaki forests to schools across the U.S.
Nicolas de Brabandère, Belgium, Founder, Urban Forests, will narrate his experience in restoring native forests of Belgium “one pocket” at a time.
Adib Dada, Lebanon, is an Environmental Architect and Founder of “theOtherDada Regenerative Consulting and Architecture Practice.” He is trying to reverse the deterioration of Beirut River by planting native trees along its banks.
R.K. Nair, India, Businessman & Co-Founder of Forest Creators, helped set up the world’s largest Miyawaki Forest in Bhuj, Gujarat that involved planting over 223,000 trees. He has installed 112 Miyawaki forests across India in partnerships with local governments and the corporate sector.
Hannah Lewis, author of the book “Mini-Forest Revolution”, will look at the future of Miyawaki forests.
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Archived Webinars, GLOBE Regional Coordinators Videos, and Workshops from Year 5
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 @ 1:00pm EST (6:00pm UTC, 7:00pm CET). The State of Trees – November 2023. Live from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico: Looking at Carbon and Biomass Through Tree Height and Land Cover with Examples from Parque Morelos. The Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign Team was excited to broadcast live from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, where we discussed the trees, land cover, and changes at Parque Morelos, in the center of the city. The webinar heard from several experts in the science, forestry, and the climate struggles that Mexico is facing with the loss of trees, changing land cover, increasing temperatures, and more. We talked to three local elders and a local scientist and consultant, as well as two experts from Reforestamos México from the organizer of the International Colloquium of Space & Sustainability currently being held in Guadalajara. Also, during this webinar, Peter Falcon highlighted his recent trip to Panama, working with students, teachers, and the GLOBE Latin America and Caribbean Region through ground-based observations and NASA science. During the webinar, there were participants from 16 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, India, Italy, Greece, Mexico, Nigeria, Oman, Kenya, Pakistan, Poland, Switzerland, and the United States).
Links to resources shown during the webinar
International Colloquium of Space & Sustainability in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Earth Map - Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico Global Forest Canopy Height and Land Cover
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Tuesday, October 10, 2023 @ 1:00pm EDT (5:00pm UTC, 7:00pm CEST). The State of Trees – October 2023. The Start of Year 6: Aligning to the GLOBE Year of Climate and Carbon (YCC) through GLOBE tree height, land cover, greenings, and carbon cycle data and global student and campaign collaboration. This webinar marked the beginning of Year 6 for the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign. In August 2023, the GLOBE Year of Climate and Carbon commenced. During this webinar, we discussed plans for the upcoming year of the campaign and presented metrics from the three-month NASA Moon Trees Quest. Our featured speaker, Grace Crain-Wright, the GIO Science Coordinator and the GLOBE Campaigns Lead, introduced the Year of Climate and Carbon (YCC): A GLOBE Action and Awareness Campaign. YCC is a new global campaign that aims to encourage GLOBE students and participants to seek a deeper understanding of changes emerging in their local ecosystems. This exploration is facilitated through data collection using a variety of GLOBE protocols, specifically phenology, biomass, and carbon protocols. Students and participants may contribute to the campaign in a variety of ways including entering GLOBE data, collaborating with another student or classroom, taking action in their local community, and more! Crain-Wright explained how the YCC Campaign aligns with the Trees Around the GLOBE Campaign and other ongoing and upcoming campaigns happening across the GLOBE community in all six regions. Just prior to the featured presentation, all webinar attendees discussed what they would like to see in Year 6 of the campaign. During the webinar, which was attended by GLOBE participants from nine countries (Argentina, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, India, Italy, Pakistan, Poland, and the United States, including Puerto Rico), Peder Nelson highlighted the need for data collections, identifying land cover, and the importance of the next step from tree height measurement, carbon calculations.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
GLOBE Year of Climate and Carbon Campaign
Telling Our Tree Stories Resource Packet
My NASA Data Breaking Down the Big Questions at NASA Video
Cause and Effect: How Do Our Forests Change Over Time?
Global Aboveground and Belowground Biomass Carbon Density Maps for the Year 2010
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Friday, September 8, 2023 @ 1:00pm EDT (5:00pm UTC, 7:00pm CEST). The State of Trees – September 2023. The Data Escape Hatch: Looking at Data and how Data Fusion can help us understand our local to global environments, including a featured discussion on the data fusion of USFS/GEDI Old Growth Forest Research. In the last webinar of Year 5 for the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign, we focused on data, data, data, setting us up for the newly approved Year 6 of the campaign. Our featured speaker was Dr. Leo Calle of ESSIC/University of Maryland, with support from Dr. Ben Poulter, of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Calle discussed the recent United States Forest Service (USFS)/GEDI Old Growth Forest research and brought us into the discussion of data fusion, harmonized datasets, data software, looking at the Z-dimension of tree height. Our own, Peder Nelson, Oregon State University researcher and GLOBE Observer Land Cover Science Lead, led us in this discussion. We also discussed some of the plans for Year 6 of the campaign, and its alignment to the upcoming GLOBE Year of Climate and Carbon Campaign. The webinar was attended by participants from 9 GLOBE countries: Argentina, Bangladesh, Colombia, Croatia, India, Israel, Italy, Oman, and the United States.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
NASA Moon Trees Quest: Jen Bourgeault
USFS/GEDI Old Growth Forest Visualizations
Forest Inventory and Analysis DataMart
NASA Teams with Forest Service to Tally America’s Oldest Trees
Peder Nelson's Oregon State University Moon Tree StoryMap
Mature and Old-Growth Forests: Forest Service Climate Risk Viewer
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Tuesday, August 22, 2023 @ 1:00pm EDT (5:00pm UTC, 7:00pm CEST). The State of Trees – August 2023. Biosphere Research Questions and Methods: The path to measuring the height of an individual tree to measuring the height of a forest. This dynamic webinar with the Trees Around the GLOBE Campaign Team discussed biosphere research questions and showcased some methods used to answer such questions. This was done through a discussion on data uncertainty with tree height and land cover, a combination of using online tools such as Google Earth Engine, Open Altimetry, NASA Worldview and NASA satellite data. We discussed the methods used to take the height of an individual tree to how space-based missions can take the height of an entire forest through data harmonization. A briefing on some of NASA's newest missions like NISAR, SWOT, others, ended the discussion and set up the campaign for the September 8, 2023, webinar. The webinar was attended by participants from 11 GLOBE countries: Argentina, Colombia, Croatia, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Oman, Switzerland, and the United States.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
NASA Moon Trees Quest: Dr. Erika Podest's Reel on Instagram
Zombie Forests of the West Coast Feature Article
Paper - "Low-Elevation Conifers in California's Sierra Nevada are out of equilibrium with climate"
Equations for Estimating Tree Growth and Carbon (Biomass)
Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS)
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Tuesday, July 11, 2023 @ 1:00pm EDT (5:00pm UTC, 7:00pm CEST). The State of Trees – July 2023. Looking at Land Cover through the historic eyes of Landsat satellites, remote sensing and the interactive, DIY hand-held spectrometer tool, STELLA. This webinar was a continuation of looking at the earth through the historic eyes of the remote sensing satellite and a glimpse into STELLA – A do-it-yourself handheld spectrometer and analog to Landsat. In this redoubtable webinar, participants learned, from Mike Taylor at NASA GSFC, how to join STELLA on its indefatigable mission to throw down the formidable barriers to entry of owning your own spectrometer, for science observation, and how STELLA aims to democratize instrumentation and in-situ data. Moreover, we dove in headfirst and discovered how to collect and analyze data from STELLA giving us a whole new perspective on the world around us through this marvel of an instrument. Peder Nelson discussed how to use STELLA as part of our Trees Around the GLOBE observations. Participants learned from STELLA instrument experts and users in this information-packed webinar, where they tie into the connection of STELLA to GLOBE Observer land cover and how the instrument can assist greatly in the interplay between land cover photos and spectral measurements. The webinar was attended by student, educator, and researcher participants from 8 GLOBE countries: Argentina, Colombia, Croatia, Ghana, India, Italy, Nigeria, and the United States.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
USGS Eyes on Earth Episode 96: Generational Science
Tour of the Electromagnetic Spectrum
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Tuesday, June 20, 2023 @ 1:00pm EDT (5:00pm UTC, 7:00pm CEST). The State of Trees – June 2023. Time Traveling with Trees: The NASA Moon Trees Program with Apollo 14 and Artemis and a Timeline of NASA Earth Observations from Space. The webinar looked back to the Apollo 14 Moon Trees Program and a look forward to the Artemis Mission Moon Trees Program, including a timeline of tree observations from the early 1970's through today and how space observation of trees and land cover has changed with the advancement of technology and the need to look at change over time. We also introduced the upcoming NASA Moon Trees Quest, highlighting the five species of Moon Trees and how the quest will ask GLOBE Observers to take tree height measurements of NASA Moon Tree species and actual Apollo 14 Moon Trees across the United States. The webinar was attended by student, educator, and researcher participants from 10 GLOBE countries: Argentina, Colombia, Croatia, Ghana, India, Italy, Oman, Poland, United States (including Puerto Rico), and Uruguay.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
Where is the Water? A GLOBE Observer Data Challenge
USGS Eyes on Earth Episode 96: Generational Science
USGS Mapping and Reporting: Individual Tree Species Parameters
GLOBE Observer Trees Resource Library
Timeline of Current and Future Earth Science Missions
Tour of the Electromagnetic Spectrum
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023 @ 1:00pm EDT (5:00pm UTC, 7:00pm CEST). The State of Trees – May 2023. Looking at Land Cover and River Deltas with NASA Delta-X Mission, including a Discussion of Global Surface Water, Mangrove Science, and Trees with Wet Feet. The webinar featured Dr. Marc Simard, Senior Research Scientist and Principal Investigator for the NASA Delta-X Mission, at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California USA. During this webinar, Dr. Simard discussed how river deltas and their wetlands are drowning as a result of sea level rise and reduced sediment inputs and how the Delta-X mission determines which parts will survive and continue to grow, and which parts will be lost. All of this has a huge impact on our planet's land cover. Following the feature presentation, Peder Nelson continued the discussion on riparian land cover, with a focus on global surface water and mangroves, all part of the coastal ecosystem. Peter Falcon and Brian Campbell highlighted the importance of airborne campaigns and satellite campaigns, respectively, in the study of land cover and tree science. The webinar was attended by student, educator, and researcher participants from 13 GLOBE countries, including Argentina, Colombia, Croatia, Germany, Ghana, India, Israel, Italy, Nigeria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, and the United States.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
"Where is the Water? A GLOBE Observer Data Challenge"
GLOBE Hydrology Protocol (Water Turbidity)
Relevant past Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign webinars discussed:
Lessons from a Southern Old-Growth Bottomland Forest: Live from Congaree National Park
New Jersey Pinelands: The Nation's First National Preservation Area
Water Cycle and water-observing satellites discussed?
Global Precipitation Measurement Mission - GPM
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on Mission - GRACE-FO
Cloud Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations Mission - CALIPSO
Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 Mission - ICESat-2
Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission - SMAP
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023 @ 1:00pm EDT (5:00pm UTC, 7:00pm CEST). The State of Trees – April 2023. The NASA Surface Water and Open Topography (SWOT) Mission and how it aligns to water edges and land cover. Dr. Ben Hamlington, Research Scientist in the Sea Level and Ice Group, in the Earth Sciences Section at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California USA discussed the NASA SWOT Mission, NASA's first global survey satellite of Earth's surface water, providing data for clean air and water, extreme events, and long-term environmental changes. Following Dr. Hamlington's presentation, Peder Nelson discussed how this mission aligns to the upcoming GLOBE Observer "Where is the Water? A GLOBE Observer Data Challenge," focusing on water edges, land cover, and mosquito habitats. Peder also recapped the results from the One-Week Paired Tree Height and Land Cover Paired Observations Intensive Observation Period by focusing on the importance of making and analyzing coincident data, specifically the tree height and land cover data. Several tools, such as the Global Surface Water Explorer and the Copernicus Land Cover Viewer online tools were highlighted. The webinar was attended by student, educator, and researcher participants from 11 GLOBE countries, including Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Ghana, India, Italy, Japan, Oman, Pakistan, and the United States.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
SWOT Mission resources at the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
Copernicus Global Land Cover Viewer
"Where is the Water? A GLOBE Observer Data Challenge"
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023 @ 1:00pm ET (6:00pm UTC, 7:00pm CET). The State of Trees - March 2023: May the Forest Be With You: Mapping Ecosystem Structure and Understanding Global Carbon Balance with GEDI. This was the 55th webinar for the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign. The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation, or GEDI, measures the 3D structure of Earth from the International Space Station using near-infrared lasers. The data that GEDI collects are immensely valuable for improving our understanding of the world's forests and complex carbon cycles. In this presentation, GEDI scientist Dr. Adrián Pascual and research assistant Ms. Tali Schwelling, discussed GEDI mission status, future challenges and goals, the exciting ways in which GEDI is being used by scientists and stakeholders today, and why GEDI is important for studying trees even in our own backyards. Following the featured presentation, Peder Nelson brought us back to the GEDI data-rich Global Forest Canopy Height online tool. We introduced the upcoming 1-Week Paired Tree Height and Land Cover Intensive Observation Period (IOP) Towards the end of the webinar, we revisited the call, from the February 14 webinar, to all our campaign students (and teachers) about interviewing elders in the local community about the local changes in land cover and tree height over the last 10, 20, 50 years. The webinar was attended by student, educator, and researcher participants from 18 GLOBE countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Ghana, India, Italy, Japan, Nigeria, Poland, Switzerland, Taiwan Partnership, Slovenia, Slovakia, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States (including Puerto Rico).
Links to resources shown during the webinar
GEDI Tree Canopy Height Data on Open Altimetry
Getting started with GEDI webinar
Global Forest Canopy Height 2019 Online Tool
THE 1-WEEK PAIRED TREE HEIGHT AND LAND COVER INTENSIVE OBSERVATION PERIOD
Links to Resources for the "Talking to Your Elders About Trees and Land Cover" Video Activity for Students
Instruction Sheet for Students Creating the Video
Student child (minor) "Talking to Your Elders About Trees and Land Cover" NASA Media Release Form
Adult "Talking to Your Elders About Trees and Land Cover" NASA Media Release
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023 @ 2:00pm ET (7:00pm UTC, 8:00pm CET). The State of Trees - February 2023: Local Comparisons of Change Over Time for Land Cover and Tree Height and a Call to Students! This was the 54th webinar for the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign. The webinar focused on country comparisons of land cover and tree heights using online data mapping tools that the campaign has highlighted often and a discussion thinking about the growth rate of trees over time with the context of "Does your city/town have a tree plan?" Following this, the webinar put out a call to all our campaign students (and teachers) to interview elders in their local community about the local changes witnessed in land cover and tree height over the last 10, 20, 50 years. There were participants from 12 countries (Argentina, Benin, Brazil, Colombia, Croatia, Ghana, India, Israel, Italy, Slovenia, Switzerland, and the United States, including Puerto Rico).
Links to Resources for the "Talking to Your Elders About Trees and Land Cover" Video Activity for Students
Instruction Sheet for Students Creating the Video
Student child (minor) "Talking to Your Elders About Trees and Land Cover" NASA Media Release Form
Adult "Talking to Your Elders About Trees and Land Cover" NASA Media Release
Links to resources shown during the webinar
GLOBE Student Vloggers Page on Youtube - GLOBE Implementation Office (GIO)
GLOBE Student Vloggers: Trees and Climate
ARSET - Connecting Citizen Science with Remote Sensing Training
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Tuesday, January 17, 2023 @ 10:30am ET (3:30pm UTC, 4:30pm CET). The State of Trees - January 2023: Setting a Baseline and a Look Back at the November 2022 International Forest Conference in Slovenia. The 53rd webinar for the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign was the next step in getting students comfortable with all the data accessible for student research. By establishing a baseline for student research, we focused much of this webinar on how students locate and decide what trees to observe and include in their research. This concept falls on last month's presentation by Teacher, Deanna Danke and her students, who showcased this exact method. Our featured presentation was by Zoran Petrov, GLOBE Slovenia Country Coordinator. Zoran recapped the November 2022 International Forest Conference held in Bohinj, Slovenia and discussed how he has made GLOBE Slovenia a GLOBE Powerhouse in just the two years that Slovenia has been an official GLOBE country. Using all this information, we delved into the idea of looking at change over time, especially in those countries that are relatively new to GLOBE and don't have a lot of observations in the GLOBE database for their country. Peder Nelson highlighted Slovenia on the Copernicus Land Cover Viewer and discussed how other GLOBE countries can use this tool to look at forest and land cover change over time.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
Video - Slovenia Impressions - Forests: Our Green Lungs
GLOBE Country Land Cover Maps 2019 on Copernicus Land Cover Viewer
ARSET - Connecting Citizen Science with Remote Sensing Training
Landing page for Copernicus Land Cover Viewer 2019
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Tuesday, December 6, 2022 @ 10:30am ET (3:30pm UTC, 4:30pm CET). The State of Trees: December 2022. The 52nd webinar for the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign featured a presentation from Queens, New York teacher, Deanna Danke, and her students. The presentation focused on data density and multiple tree height and tree circumference observations from local trees near their school, the Msgr. McClancy High School. Autumn Burdick, GLOBE Program Senior Writer and Editor and the NASA GLOBE Observer Communications Director, highlighted the latest GLOBE Student Vloggers Project on trees and the importance of talking to elders about what they have witnessed in their changing environment. Our own, Peter Falcon discussed the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how they pertain to the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign and Peter gave a recap of the GLOBE 2022 Europe and Eurasia Regional Meeting. We also highlighted the final metrics for the NASA GLOBE Trees Challenge 2022: Trees in a Changing Climate and showcase the distribution of tree heights between the 2021 Community Trees Challenge and NASA GLOBE Trees Challenge 2022. The webinar was attended by participants, including classes of students) from Algeria, Argentina, India, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Portugal, Switzerland, United States, and Uruguay.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
NASA GLOBE Trees Challenge 2022: Trees in a Changing Climate
The UN Sustainable Development Goals 2022 Report
The UN Sustainable Development Goals Communications Materials and Icons
GLOBE Program alignment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
GLOBE Student Vloggers Page on Youtube - GLOBE Implementation Office (GIO)
Video showcasing the impact of the GLOBE Student Vloggers Program
GLOBE Student Vloggers: Trees and Climate
NASA Tour of the Electromagnetic Spectrum
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Tuesday, November 8, 2022 @ 11:00am ET (4:00pm UTC, 5:00pm CET). Student Research by Example: Croatian Students Discuss their Tree Research and its Real-World Applications in the City of Karlovac and Dubovac District. This webinar was the second webinar for Year 5 of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign. Since Year 5 of the campaign will be heavily invested in guiding student research, students and educator, Snježana Zoraja, from Dubovac Primary School in Croatia described the details of their student research, as well as how they took their research results to their local town and decision-makers and implemented a real-world approach to their research findings. Following the student presentation, our own Peder Nelson highlighted some online tools (iTree, Google Earth Engine, and Land Cover Viewer), with examples from GLOBE Croatia, that students from all GLOBE countries can utilize in their student research on trees and land cover. During the webinar, we also showcased a brief portion of the upcoming GLOBE Student Vlogger research video, focusing on trees and real-life stories from those who have seen change environmental in their locations.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
NASA GLOBE Trees Challenge 2022: Trees in a Changing Climate
Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign Online Tools Tutorial Videos
iTree Canopy: A tree canopy assessment tool
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Tuesday, October 11, 2022 @ 2:00pm EDT (6:00pm UTC). Year 5 Kickoff: The importance of trees and land cover, student research, and the NASA GLOBE Trees Challenge 2022: "Trees in a Changing Climate." This webinar served as the starting point for Year 5 of the Trees round the GLOBE Student Research Campaign. During the webinar, the campaign team focused on three guiding research questions, discuss the importance of taking tree height and land cover measurements, highlight upcoming events like the 2022 Pecora Conference and the NASA GLOBE Trees Challenge 2022: Trees in a Changing Climate. We heard from Josh Enterkine, research at Boise State University about the many methods he and his colleagues engage in when doing scientific research. We also heard from Peder Nelson about all the way we can research trees and land cover using online tools, with a focus on highlighting city tree inventories. The webinar was attended by participants from Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, India, Nigeria, Switzerland, and the United States.
Check out the video with Josh Enterkine, researcher from Boise State University. Josh discusses his science research methods in this one-on-one interview
Links to resources shown during the webinar
NASA GLOBE Trees Challenge 2022: Trees in a Changing Climate
Activities Discussed:
Hand-held Clinometer vs NASA GLOBE Observer Trees Tool
Stories Trees Tell: Learning the Language of Out Tall Forest Friends and Tree Cookies
Tree Life Cycle: A Journey from Seed to Soil
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Archived Webinars, GLOBE Regional Coordinators Videos, and Workshops from Year 4
Wednesday, September 21, 2022 @ 1:30pm EDT (5:30pm UTC). Planting Roots and Leaving a Legacy Behind and Setting the Research Stage for Year 5 of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign Focus: North America. This webinar was the final webinar for Year 4 of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign. Next month (October 2022) will begin Year 5. During this webinar, there were several guest speakers, led by teacher Julie Houck, of Defiance Elementary School in Defiance, Ohio. Julie began by discussing how she and her students have used resources as a GLOBE teacher to reach the community and beyond, including how she wrote a successful grant, using GLOBE connections, to expand into the local community. Julie's efforts have extended to The Defiance Soil and Water Department, the GLOBE B-Wet Program, Defiance College, as well as a local county commissioner's office. There was a variety of speakers from these groups joining in on the discussion. This type of collaboration propelled us into talking about several activities, including the Future of Forests and My Tree Map, for inside and outside the classroom, and how we can bring students together, help to develop student research topics using new and archived GLOBE data, and set the stage for guided student research, during Year 5 of the campaign, and for collaboration with other GLOBE schools for student research. During the webinar, we highlighted the three Year 5 guiding research questions: Where are the trees in your area? How tall are the trees? Are the trees getting taller and denser? The webinar was attended by participants from Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, India, Israel, Nigeria, Switzerland, and the United States.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
Climate Change Scientist Cards
The Future of Forests Activity
NASA GLOBE Trees Challenge 2022: Trees in a Changing Climate (11 October - 11 November 2022)
GLOBE Advanced Data Access System (ADAT)
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Tuesday, August 16, 2022 @ 1:00pm EDT (5:00pm UTC). Focusing on Students and Educators as they prepare for Year 5 of the Campaign and the 2023 GLOBE IVSS: Featuring Highlights from the U.S. Forest Service’s Tree Canopy Cover Layer and U.S. Tree Mapping and Monitoring. Focus: North America. This webinar brought the campaign to the GLOBE North America Region with a focus on activities that can assist students and teachers, from all across GLOBE, with their tree, land cover, greenings, and carbon cycle research, as part of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign. Our guest speaker, Stacie Bender, Physical Scientist at the USDA Forest Service Geospatial Technology and Applications Center (GTAC) discussed "Tree Canopy Cover Data from the USDA Forest Service." The webinar also featured an open forum, with three breakout rooms, to discuss any ideas, concerns, and questions regarding the upcoming Year 5 of the campaign and student research for GLOBE IVSS 2023.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
World Data Service for Paleoclimatology manages the International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB)
New Trees Publications - Environmental Research Letters
Stories Trees Tell - "Tree Cookies" Activity
Survivors reflect on the day the Pagami Creek Fire exploded 10 years ago
MRLC Land Cover Viewer (*NOTE: the link It defaults to the land cover product in the National Land Cover Database, but you can turn on the tree canopy cover piece through the left side)
Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign Online Tools Tutorial Videos
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Tuesday, July 12, 2022 @ 11:00am EDT (12:00pm Suriname Time, 3:00pm UTC). From Tree Tops to Coastal Waters – mapping Coastal Wetlands in 3 Dimensions with NASA data and a look at mangrove work with Green Heritage Fund Suriname. Coastal land and seascapes (seagrasses, mangroves, coral reefs, tidal flats) support the livelihoods of over 3 billion people in 100+ countries, they offer protection from extreme weather events, provide 25% of the oceanic carbon pool and support 25% of global biodiversity. Despite their economic and ecological importance, the extent of coastal ecosystems, and the activities that were driving the changes in these ecosystems were poorly quantified. Furthermore, understanding the spatial patterns of coastal ecosystem structure – both above and below water – are important in valuing the ecosystem services that these areas provide and predicting the vulnerability to human caused and natural threats.
During the webinar, Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo showcased how NASA Earth Observing data and research, including multi-year time-series from Landsat, and terrestrial and underwater elevation data from airborne and space-borne Sensors such as SRTM, GEDI and ICESat-2, monitors these ecosystems in three dimensions and through time. During this webinar, we also heard from Genevieve Sontowinggolo and Monique Pool, at the Green Heritage Fund Suriname, about their work on developing a mangrove protocol and working with local communities in the Districts of Coronie and Nickerie, Suriname, as well as an expansion to a third coastal district in Suriname. The webinar was attended, live, by 28 participants from 14 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, India, Israel, Nigeria, Oman, Peru, Switzerland, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
James Webb Space Telescope First Light
New Trees Publications - Environmental Research Letters
NASA Finds Cause of Florida Mangrove Forest Die-off
ARSET - Remote Sensing for Mangroves in Support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
ARSET - Investigating Time Series of Satellite Imagery
NASA GLOBE Land Cover Challenge 2022: Land Cover in a Changing Climate
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio - GEDI Instrument
Interviewed by Brian Campbell, Mariana Savino, the Coordinator of the GLOBE Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Region, discusses the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign, students doing exceptional research, for GLOBE IVSS and beyond, in the GLOBE LAC her region and the importance of taking local observations of tree height and land cover, as well as sharing student research projects across the GLOBE.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2022 @ 2:00pm EDT (3:00pm Argentina Time, 6:00pm UTC). Highlighting GLOBE Argentina Student Research of Tree Height Land Cover, and Riverside Environments in Junín de los Andes and La Rioja. Region Focus: Latin America and Caribbean. For this webinar, we entered our two-month focus on the GLOBE Latin America and Caribbean Region. During the webinar, we heard from secondary students from the town of Junín de los Andes, high school students from the Argentine province of La Rioja, as well as university students. You can see links to all their presentations below the recording. The students focused their in-depth student research presentations on tree height, land cover, and riverside environments. The student talks were all being organized by Ana Prieto from GLOBE Argentina and advisor to the Huechulafquen Science Club. We also highlighted the last 3 years of IVSS projects submitted by the GLOBE Latin America and Caribbean Region, focusing on biometry observations. In part one of an interview, Mariana Savino, the Coordinator of the GLOBE Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Region, discussed the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign, students doing exceptional research, for GLOBE IVSS and beyond, in the GLOBE LAC her region and the importance of taking local observations of tree height and land cover, as well as sharing student research projects across the GLOBE.
Links to the student presentations
"Characterization of the riparian vegetation of the Chimehuin River. Preliminary results"
"Characterization of forest and steppe cover in Santa Cruz, Famatina, La Rioja”
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022 @ 11:00am EDT (3:00pm UTC, 5:00pm CEST, 6:00pm Arabian Standard Time). Highlighting Biometry Measurements Through Student Research Projects and Online Tools within the GLOBE Europe and Eurasia and GLOBE Near East and North Africa Regions. Region Focus: Near East and North Africa and a return to GLOBE Europe and Eurasia. During this webinar, we showcased some exciting student research projects from this region, as well as having student presenters returning from the GLOBE Europe and Eurasia Region, highlighting their biometry student research in Croatia. We also featured several student research projects from Saudi Arabia, and the United States, with a focus on biometry tree height and land cover. During the webinar, we highlighted some important data from the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) with the research entitled, "Lasering in on the Corn with GEDI. We also heard from Salma Al Zubi from the GLOBE Near East and North Africa Region in Amman, Jordan. She discussed the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign, teachers and students doing exceptional research in parts of her region, specifically Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and other countries, and the importance of taking local observations of tree height, land cover, greenings, and carbon cycle, as well as conducting student research projects. The webinar was attended, live, by participants from Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Croatia, India, Jordan, Malta, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Pakistan, and the United States.
Interviewed by Peter Falcon, Salma Al Zubi, from the GLOBE Near East and North Africa Regional Coordination Office, discusses the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign, teachers and students doing exceptional research in parts of her region, specifically Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, and the importance of taking local observations of tree height, land cover, greenings, and carbon cycle, as well as conducting student research projects.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
ICESat-2 Orbit App for Android
Lasering in on the Corn Fields with GEDI
Unique Trees from National Geographic
Featured Presentations:
Saudi Arabia: Saudi Green Initiative (see webinar recording above at 50:43 - 58:53)
Ecosystem Engineering at Mangrove Site in Al Muthailif Coastline
Analyzing Local Land Cover Data Using Surrounding Data
Examining Environmental and Structural Impact of Extreme Events on Land Cover
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022 @ 1:00pm EDT (5:00pm UTC). Global crop modeling and climate-related implications for future food productivity with Dr. Jonas Jaegermeyr: Highlighting the GLOBE Near East and North Africa Region. Focus: GLOBE Near East and North Africa Region. The Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign transitioned from the GLOBE Europe and Eurasia Region to the GLOBE Near East and North Africa Region. Dr. Jaegermeyr, Research Scientist, Columbia University Climate School and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York USA, introduced AgMIP, the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project, and presented latest estimates of potential climate change impacts on future crop productivity. AgMIP brings together the leading international crop modeling teams and provides a key assessment framework for improving our understanding of climate change implications for global agriculture and for developing adaptation and mitigation pathways to provide a healthy and sustainable diet for all. This presentation highlighted recent work from the global crop modeling community and introduced a new metric — time of climate impact emergence — that looks at future climate-related challenges from a risk perspective. The research extends its focus to how average global crop yields for maize, or corn, may see a decrease of 24% by late century if current climate change trends continue. Wheat, in contrast, may see an uptick in crop yields by about 17%. The change in yields is due to the projected increases in temperature, shifts in rainfall patterns and elevated surface carbon dioxide concentrations due to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, making it more difficult to grow maize in the tropics and expanding wheat’s growing range. Dr. Jaegermeyr highlighted some of these trends seen in the Near East and North Africa Region. The webinar featured Part I of an interview with Salma Al Zubi from GLOBE Jordan and the GLOBE Near East and North Africa Regional Coordination Office. The campaign team showcased tree height, land cover, and land use in the GLOBE Near East and North Africa Region. The webinar was attended, live, by participants from Argentina, Croatia, India, Malta, Oman, Pakistan, and the United States.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
ICESat-2 Orbit App for Android
PNAS Paper: The number of tree species on Earth
Land Cover Maps
Land Cover (with Tree Height Statistics) Map for all 126 GLOBE Program countries
Land Cover (with Tree Height Statistics) Map for GLOBE Asia and Pacific Region (19 countries)
Land Cover (with Tree Height Statistics) Map for GLOBE Africa Region (27 countries)
Land Cover (with Tree Height Statistics) Map for GLOBE Europe and Eurasia Region (45 countries)
Land Cover (with Tree Height Statistics) Map for GLOBE North America Region (2 countries)
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The Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign, GLOBE European Phenology Campaign, UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre (coordinator of GLOBE Poland), and the Urban Heat Island Effect - Surface Temperature Field Program, would like to invite you to participate in the Spring 2022 GLOBE Tree Height and Land Cover Intensive Observation Period (IOP) from 22 April through 22 May 2022. You can participate in the IOP by collecting as many Tree Height and Land Cover observations as you wish, using the GLOBE protocol observations and/or the GLOBE Program's app, GLOBE Observer. We are hoping to get as much concentrated data in locations from all across the world to help student and professional researchers across the globe.
In 2019, NASA and UNEP signed an agreement to work together on GLOBE and UNEP activities including collaboration on environmental education, citizen science and environmental data collection and distribution. The Spring 2022 IOP is part of the 4th year of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign and will align to the GLOBE European Phenology 2022 Spring Tree Campaign, the 25th anniversary of GLOBE Poland, and the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Environmental Programme. The IOP also parallels the 50th anniversary of the NASA-USGS Landsat Program, with its 50 years of remote sensing Earth observations, and the NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission’s observations of tree height from space.
Will you join us in celebrating these milestones by taking vital tree height and land cover observations that will benefit global science research and provide important ground-based data for student and professional researchers?
Wednesday, April 6, 2022 @ 11:00am EDT (3:00pm UTC). Spring 2022 Tree Height and Land Cover Intensive Observation Period (IOP) Kick-off Webinar. The Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign, in collaboration with the GLOBE European Phenology Campaign, United Nations Environment Programme/Global Resource Information Center (UNEP/GRID) Warsaw Centre, GLOBE Poland, and the Urban Heat Island Effect - Surface Temperature Field Campaign, held a special kick-off webinar for the Spring 2022 Tree Height and Land Cover Intensive Observation Period (IOP). The webinar was attended, live, by participants from Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Malta, Peru, Poland, Switzerland, and the United States.
Spring 2022 IOP Kickoff Webinar Presentations:
GPM, Climate Change and Trees (Dorian Janney)
Looking at Trees from Below - European Phenology Campaign (Bara Semerakova)
GLOBE: Study the Urban Heat Island Effect (Dr. Kevin Czajkowski)
UNEP @ Spring 2022 Tree Height and Land Cover IOP (Magda Biesiada)
UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 25 years of GLOBE Poland (Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska)
Links to resources shown during the webinar
Urban Heat Island Effect Page for Students
Creation of Urban Het Islands Story Map
MODIS Collections in Google Earth Engine
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Wednesday, March 2, 2022 @ 1:00pm EST (6:00pm UTC). All About the European Phenology 2022 Spring Tree Campaign with Student Research Presentations from Across the GLOBE Europe and Eurasia Region. Region Focus: Europe and Eurasia. This webinar was the second month of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign focus on the GLOBE Europe and Eurasia Region. During the webinar, Bára Semeráková of the GLOBE Europe and Eurasia Regional Coordination Office discussed the GLOBE European Phenology's 2022 Spring Tree Campaign and its goals for students to observe trees from buds to leaves, using the GLOBE Green Up and Biometry Tree Height protocols, to find out how important the role of trees are in the carbon cycle. Following Bára’s presentation, several student research groups across GLOBE Europe and Eurasia (Croatia - live, Malta - live, Switzerland, - live and Ukraine-pre-recorded) presented on their Spring 2022 tree research projects, including those to be submitted to the 2022 GLOBE International Virtual Science Symposium (IVSS). The Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign Team revisited the GLOBE Europe and Eurasia Land Cover Maps (with tree height metrics) for student research, retrieved from the Global Land Cover Viewer, one of the two major online tools, for data analysis, that Year 4 of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign is focusing on.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
Focused Online Tools for Data Analysis for Year 4 of the Campaign:
Global Forest Canopy Height Tool and Global Land Cover Viewer Tool
Additional Links
GLOBE European Phenology 2022 Spring Tree Campaign
GLOBE European Phenology 2022 Spring Tree Campaign Padlet
GLOBE European Phenology 2022 Spring Tree Campaign Discussion Forum
Croatia Rugvica Tree Reports Video
GLOBE Elementary K-4 International Project
GLOBE Elementary K-4 International Project Wakelet
Ukraine Student Research Presentation Video from Kovel Young Naturalists Station School
ICESat-2 Orbit App for Android
Land Cover Maps
Land Cover (with Tree Height Statistics) Map for all 126 GLOBE Program countries
Land Cover (with Tree Height Statistics) Map for GLOBE Asia and Pacific Region (19 countries)
Land Cover (with Tree Height Statistics) Map for GLOBE Africa Region (27 countries)
Land Cover (with Tree Height Statistics) Map for GLOBE Europe and Eurasia Region (45 countries)
Land Cover (with Tree Height Statistics) Map for GLOBE North America Region (2 countries)
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022 @ 1:00pm EST (6:00pm UTC). Telling our Tree Stories with examples from GLOBE Europe and Eurasia. Region Focus: Europe and Eurasia. Have you ever wondered how precipitation impacts the kinds of trees and the land cover found in different locations? Ever wonder how different regions might be impacted by climate change? During this presentation, Dorian Janney discussed how to join an on-going project to look at the potential impacts of climate change on trees and land cover around the world. Through examples provided by GLOBE Europe and Eurasia campaign participants, Dorian showcased how project participants shared a tree and land cover observation from one location, and how to easily get 20 years of precipitation data for that location from NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. These “Tree Stories” are added to our growing “Telling Our Tree Stories” StoryMap. During this webinar, participants also learned about climate models and how NASA’s Earth science missions are using a variety of Earth observations and ground-based data to build predictive models to help us anticipate how climate change will impact different regions around the world.
Interviewed by Peter Falcon, Lenka Kleger, from the GLOBE Europe and Eurasia Regional Coordination Office, discusses the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign, European Phenology Campaign, and the importance of taking local observations of tree height, land cover, greenings, and carbon cycle, as well as conducting student research projects.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
Focused Online Tools for Data Analysis for Year 4 of the Campaign:
Global Forest Canopy Height Tool and Global Land Cover Viewer Tool
Additional Links
Telling our Trees Story - Story Map
GLOBE European Phenology 2022 Spring Tree Campaign
NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS)
Satellite Data Record Shows Climate Change's Impact on Forest Fires Article
NASA Earth Observatory: Building a Long-Term Record of Fire
Resource Watch: Monitoring the Planet's Pulse
ICESat-2 Orbit App for Android
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Tuesday, January 11, 2022 @ 11:00am EST (4:00pm UTC). Looking at Trees Across Africa with a Special Presentation on the "Unexpectedly Large Count of Trees in the Western African Sahara and Sahel." Region Focus: Africa. This was the second campaign webinar focusing on the GLOBE Africa Region and highlighted the second half of an interview with GLOBE Africa Regional Alumni Coordinator and GLOBE Benin Country Coordinator, Mr. Ylliass Destin Lawani. The featured presentation was presented by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientist, Dr. Compton "Jim" Tucker and University of Copenhagen Scientist, Dr. Martin Brandt. Dr. Tucker and Dr. Brandt presented their ground-breaking research focusing on the dryer areas of the globe that do not have forests, which are often discounted for their contribution to the global biome in climate models and other prediction systems. However, their research has shown that over 1.8 billion trees are in the small study area in the West African Sahara and Sahel. Peder Nelson then showcased a featured Collect Earth activity for trees in Africa and discussed the importance of tree location (latitude and longitude) when doing tree research. The webinar was attended by educators, students, and researchers from Argentina, Bangladesh, Benin, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Italy, Nigeria, Pakistan, Switzerland, and the United States.
Check out the "Unexpectedly Large Count of Trees in the Western African Sahara and Sahel" video from the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio, below.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
Unexpectedly Large Count of Trees in the Western Sahara and Sahel - NASA SVS
Nature web link to Dr. Brandt and Dr. Tucker Research publication
Link to Nature publication pdf by Dr. Brandt and Dr. Tucker
Collect Earth "Labeling Tree Canopy" Activity designed by Peder Nelson
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Tuesday, December 7, 2021 @ 1:00pm EST (6:00pm UTC). Looking at the Land Cover and Tree Canopy of the GLOBE Africa Region and the critical need for GLOBE data observations in the Africa Region. Region Focus: Africa. This campaign webinar began our two-month focus on the GLOBE Africa Region. Campaign Lead, Brian Campbell highlighted campaign data metrics, as well as guided participants in a photo characterization activity for Africa land cover and tree height. The webinar introduced a recorded discussion with GLOBE Africa Regional Alumni Coordinator and GLOBE Benin Country Coordinator, Mr. Ylliass Destin Lawani. The webinar focused on the importance of taking land cover and tree height observations across Africa, with a focus on data literacy. GLOBE Partner and GLOBE Observer Land Cover Lead, Peder Nelson, gave us a closer look at the Global Land Cover Viewer and the Global Forest Canopy Height online tool to focus on how to look at current and past land cover and tree height data in the Africa Region. Following the use of these online tools, NASA JPL GLOBE Partner, Peter Falcon, highlighted some useful content from the NASA Eyes on Earth online tool, including Slash and Burn in Africa. The webinar was attended by participants from Argentina, Bangladesh, Colombia, India, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States.
In the interview video below, Ylliass Destin Lawani, GLOBE Africa Regional Alumni Coordinator and GLOBE Benin Country Coordinator, discusses the importance of monitoring trees and land cover in the Africa region and the importance of being part of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
Focused Online Tools for Data Analysis for Year 4 of the Campaign:
Global Forest Canopy Height Tool and Global Land Cover Viewer Tool
Additional Links
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Tuesday, November 16, 2021 @ 1:00pm EST (6:00pm UTC). Introducing the Trees Around the GLOBE 50 Years of Data Challenge: How has land cover and tree height changed in your location in the last 50 years? Region Focus: Asia and Pacific. This webinar kicked off the main theme for Year 4 of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign: “The Trees Around the GLOBE 50 Years of Data Challenge: How has land cover and tree height changed in your location in the last 50 years?” The webinar focused on tree and forest height and land cover data that can be visualized, by region, with a selected group of two online tools: Global Land Analysis & Discovery (GLAD) and the Global Land Cover Viewer (GLCV). During this webinar, the campaign introduced a data research template for students and focused on the GLOBE Asia and Pacific Region. The webinar was attended live by twenty-one unique participants from nine countries: Argentina, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, India, Italy, Pakistan, Switzerland, and the United States.
In the interview video below, Dr. Desh Bandhu, GLOBE Asia and Pacific Regional Coordinator, discusses the importance of monitoring trees and land cover in the Asia and Pacific regions and the importance of being part of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
Focused Online Tools for Data Analysis for Year 4 of the Campaign:
Global Forest Canopy Height Tool and Global Land Cover Viewer Tool
Additional Links
My NASA Data Cause and Effect: How do our forests change over time? (A Student Activity)
Landscape Change Monitoring System (LCMS) Data Explorer
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Tuesday, October 19, 2021 @ 11:00am EST (3:00pm UTC, 8:30pm IST). A Himalayan Expedition with GISN Member, Yashraj Patil: Looking at the GLOBE Program’s First High Altitude GLOBE Land Cover, Cloud, and Hydrosphere Data. Region Focus: Asia and Pacific. Our featured speaker, GISM Member, Yashraj Patil ,guided us through his on-site research using GLOBE protocols, in the Himalayas, specifically Ladakh, India. Featured were his observations of land cover, cloud cover, salinity, and pH in areas such as the Saboo Cloudburst Site, Indus-Yarlung Suture Zone, Tso Kar Ramsar Site, and the Puga Geothermal System Site. Through this research, Yashraj compared his data on the ground, to data from missions like Landsat, CloudSat, and Meteosat-8. This webinar served as a catalyst for others to take local environmental observations and compare them to space-based data. The webinar also hosted a discussion on how we might be able to form collaborations of GLOBE students with the lifelong learner community. The webinar was attended live by twenty-six unique visitors from ten countries: Argentina, Colombia, Czech Republic, India, Italy, Pakistan, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, and the United States.
Link to resources shown during the webinar
Featured Himalayan Expedition Story Map
Focused Online Tools for Data Analysis for Year 4 of the Campaign:
Global Forest Canopy Height Tool and Global Land Cover Viewer Tool
Additional Links
9 Things about Landsat 9 video
Climate Change Resources Story Map
1984 - 2021 Surface Water Dynamics based on Landsat data
Lifelong Learners video with Dorian Janney
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Archived Webinars and Workshops from Year 3
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 @ 1:00pm EDT (5:00pm UTC). Celebrating Land Cover and Tree Height Observations from the Ground and Space with the Launch of the Landsat 9 Satellite: Celebrating the First Three Years of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign by Taking a Deeper Dive into the Landsat, ICESat-2, GEDI, GPM, and ECOSTRESS Missions. This webinar highlighted the first three years of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign by showcasing the land cover, tree height, and greenings observations taken by students, citizen scientists and space-based satellites and instruments, during the first three years of the campaign. The campaign team took a deep dive into these missions, as well as celebrated the upcoming launch of the Landsat 9 Satellite, including the new Camp Landsat Project. Participants learned all about the Landsat series of satellites, including Landsat 9 and its importance of looking at change over time. The webinar also focused on several other NASA missions and instruments, like ICESat-2, GEDI, ECOSTRESS, and GPM, all vital to studying our planet’s land cover, trees, plants, and carbon cycle. The final minutes of the webinar focused on what it means to think like a tree!
Links to resources shown during the webinar
Evapotranspiration with Landsat
A Trip Through Time with Landsat
Global Forests Observations Initiative
ICESat-2 Elevates our View of Earth
ICESat-2 Laser Focus: Timing and Photon Counting
Global Land Analysis and Discovery - GEDI
Dorian's Janney's GPM Story Map
Tiny Core Labs - Monthly Precipitation Panel
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Tuesday, August 10, 2021 @ 12:00pm EDT (4:00pm UTC):At Ease with the Trees: Preparing for Student Investigations and Research Projects with the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign Team, Session II. During this special encore webinar, participants were able to work directly, via breakout discussions, with the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign team members to focus on several specific research topics for future student projects. These included: “Land Cover and Land Cover Change for Student Research,” GLOBE Tree Height Comparisons with ICESat-2 and GEDI, ”GPM Precipitation Data and How it Affects Trees,” and “What Can We Do to Support Your Plans for Student Research?” During the webinar, each participant chose which two breakout sessions they wanted to attend. During this highly interactive webinar, participants also learned about some specific NASA missions and programs, including Landsat 9, GEDI, ICESat-2, ECOSTRESS, and the NASA Food and Drink Campaign each have a vital alignment to trees and land cover.
During the webinar, each participant chose which two breakout sessions they wanted to attend. During this highly interactive webinar, participants also learned about some specific NASA missions and programs, including Landsat 9, GEDI, ICESat-2, ECOSTRESS, and the NASA Food and Drink Campaign each have a vital alignment to trees and land cover.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
Google Earth Engine Global Forest Canopy Height 2019
IPCC Report: AR6 Climate Change 2021
NASA GLOBE Observer Trees Resource Library
REDD+ Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 @ 12:00pm EDT (4:00pm UTC): At Ease with the Trees: Preparing for Student Investigations and Research Projects with the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign Team, Session I. During this special webinar, participants were able to work directly, via breakout discussions, with the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign team members to focus on several specific research topics for future student projects. These included: “Land Cover and Land Cover Change for Student Research,” GLOBE Tree Height Comparisons with ICESat-2 and GEDI, ”GPM Precipitation Data and How it Affects Trees,” and “What Can We Do to Support Your Plans for Student Research?”
During the webinar, each participant chose which two breakout sessions they wanted to attend. During this highly interactive webinar, participants also learned about some specific NASA missions and programs, including Landsat 9, GEDI, ICESat-2, ECOSTRESS, and the NASA Food and Drink Campaign each have a vital alignment to trees and land cover.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
Google Earth Engine 2005 Baseline Tree Height Dataset
Trees Campaign Online Tools Tutorials for Student Research
Coding Workflows for ECOSTRESS
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Monday, June 14, 2021 @ 1:00pm EDT (5:00pm UTC). The people behind the pixels: understanding rapid forest changes to the Andes-Amazon region. Dr. Paulo Murillo-Sandoval, a native of Colombia, discussed how he used Landsat time-series satellite data, with local knowledge, to map, measure, and describe conversion of forest to agriculture land cover changes from 1988-2019 in an area of the Andes-Amazon region. Following the featured presentation, Peder Nelson, from Oregon State University, showcased how people can examine the Landsat time-series for their area using Google Earth Engine and NASA WorldView. The workshop was attended live by thirty-three unique campaign participants from nine countries (Argentina, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, India, Italy, Kenya, Switzerland, and the United States).
Links to resources shown during the webinar
My NASA Data "Cause and Effect: How do our forests change over time?" Student Activity
ARSET - Using Google Earth Engine for Land Monitoring Applications
Google Earth Engine Time Lapse - Columbia Glacier Retreat
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Tuesday, May 25, 2021 @ 9:00am EDT (1:00pm UTC) - 2:00pm EDT (6:00pm UTC). The Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign Half-Day Workshop: Highlighting 2021 GLOBE International Virtual Science Symposium Student Research Projects from the across the GLOBE. The half-day workshop focused on presentations from students across the GLOBE Program, from Colombia, Croatia, Oman, Taiwan Partnership, and the United States, about their trees and land cover-related IVSS 2021 student research projects. The GLOBE students presented on the interconnectedness of trees, land cover, soil moisture, and other GLOBE measurement protocols. During the workshop, Peder Nelson highlighted several of the SEES Summer Internship Program research that was submitted to IVSS, followed by a celebratory tour of all the trees and land cover data collected over the last three years. There were also two amazing tree reforestation projects highlighted: The Himalayan Reforestation Project (India) and the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership (United States). The workshop was organized into groups of protocol-related student research project presentations. The 5-hour, half-day workshop, covering fifteen time zones, was attended by sixty-seven unique participants (students, educators, scientists) from twenty-two countries (Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Ghana, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Oman, Poland, Republic of Korea, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan Partnership, and the United States).
The workshop has been broken down into viewing segments. Each is listed below:
Introduction to the Workshop with Metrics
Session 1: IVSS Project Presentations from GLOBE Taiwan Partnership and Oman Students
Session 2: A Focus on Reforestation Projects
Session 3: SEES Projects and GLOBE Visualization Tour of Tree Height and Land Cover Observations over Last 3 Years
Session 4: IVSS Project Presentations from GLOBE Croatia, Colombia, and United States Students
Session 5: Call for GLOBE Translations and Workshop Wrap-up Discussion
Check out the full 5-hour workshop below:
Links to resources shown during the workshop
G-LiHT Airborne Imaging System
NASA Earth Observatory Chesapeake Bay From Above
Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership
Recent EOS article showcasing importance of trees in urban areas
2021 Community Trees Challenge and 10 Million Trees Blogs on NASA GLOBE Observer
Himalayan Reforestation Walk with Janisha Project
SEES Project 2: Quality of Land Cover Observations: Satellite Imagery Vs. In-Situ Observations
SEES Project 4: Using Deep Learning to Classify Mosquito Habitats
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021 @ 1:00pm EDT (5:00pm UTC). Trees are Long Term: Looking back at GLOBE tree data for tree growth and tracking tree growth over time. The webinar focused on the idea that trees are long term, so we can track the growth of trees over time through ground-based and satellite observations. Highlights included the new GLOBE Trees Family Guide, the 2021 Trees Community Challenge: Science is Better Together, and using online tools, such as NASA WorldView and the GLOBE Visualization System to look at tree growth over time, in your location. We also had a Q&A session with Brian Campbell and Peder Nelson, moderated by Peter Falcon, focusing on questions asked by campaign participants, including questions about taking repeat tree height observations of the same trees and finding out where we have gaps in tree height data, and the need for data density. During this webinar, we also announced the upcoming Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign May 2021 Half-Day Workshop featuring student IVSS research project presentations from around the world.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
2021 NASA Earth Day Virtual Event
2021 Trees Community Challenge: Science is Better Together
"Trees are land cover" Blog by Peder Nelson
NASA GLOBE Observer Tree Puns Video
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Tuesday, March 9, 2021 @ 6:00pm EST (11:00pm UTC, 7:00am Philippines Time on Wednesday, March 10, 2021). Finalizing and Submitting your Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign Projects: Final project discussions with campaign team and participants, including student tree research projects in the Philippines. Set-up for one day prior to the 10 March, 2021 deadline to submit projects to the 2021 GLOBE International Virtual Science Symposium (IVSS), this webinar will be for students, and educators with students who will be submitting project to IVSS 2021. The campaign team answered any last-minute questions regarding student research projects and the science/data (tree height, land cover, greenings, and carbon cycle) involved with the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign. The webinar featured student researchers, from GLOBE Philippines, presenting on their tree student researcher and the Philippines “One Million Trees by 2025” Project. The campaign team presented on campaign metrics, trees in the news, and using ArcGIS Story Maps in student research.
Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign's Trees in the News Segment with Dr. Christopher Shuman - Planting Trees for Carbon Capture and Climate - March 2021
View the PDF Presentation Slides HERE!
Links to resources shown during the webinar
2021 Trees Community Challenge: Science is Better Together
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Tuesday, February 9, 2021 @ 2:00pm EST (7:00pm UTC). Continuing with your Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign Projects: Looking more in-depth at online tools, story mapping, and the NASA GLOBE Observer trees and land cover tools for student research projects, including student research on lime trees in Croatia. The Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign continued Phase II of Year 3 by bringing teachers and students together with the common goal of discussing and unifying resources and recent lime tree science insights for students to use to continue their development of student research projects. The featured presentation from our good friend and Croatian student researcher, Antonela, focused on the environmental impact of the lime tree. Several members of the campaign team discussed the importance of taking multiple observations (tree height and land cover) at the same place and same time, as well as focusing on how to compare the GLOBE ground-based observations with NASA satellite data. The webinar culminated with an online demonstration on how to pull data from the GLOBE database and use it in creating maps, for student research, in ArcGIS StoryMaps.
Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign's Trees in the News Segment with Dr. Christopher Shuman - Insights on Europe's small-leaved and large-leaved lime trees from the European Atlas of Forest Tree Species - February 2021
View the PDF Slide Presentation HERE!
Links to resources shown during the webinar
GrowApp Switzerland Lime Tree Time-Lapse
Storm Track of Hurricane Isaias
GLOBE Advanced Data Access Tool (ADAT)
Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign Online Tools Tutorials
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021 @ 2:00pm EST (7:00pm UTC). Getting Started with your Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Projects: An open forum webinar with a student presentation from Malta, educators, and the Trees Campaign core team. With the first four months of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign focusing on the science (Tree Height, Greenings, Carbon Cycle, and Land Cover), we now focus on how to take that science and create student research projects. During the webinar, students from the St. Michael School in Malta presented about how they have begun their research projects related to trees. The webinar also focused on some specific research questions that students, using data and online tools, can explore and answer as part of their student research projects. A discussion on the DeSoto National Forest, StoryMaps, Comparing GLOBE and NASA satellite data, and selecting of online tools were also featured.
Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign's Trees in the News Segment with Dr. Christopher Shuman - Restoring longleaf pines, keystone of once vast ecosystems - DeSoto National Forest, near Wiggins, Mississippi - January 2021
View the PDF Slide Presentation HERE!
Links shared during the webinar
St. Michael School - Malta Observations in GLOBE Visualization System
Trees Campaign Online Tool Tutorials for Data Research
Using GLOBE Data to Analyze Land Cover Document
Trees Campaign: Getting Started with your Student Research
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Tuesday, December 8, 2020 @ 2:00pm EST (7:00pm UTC). Trees are Land Cover! Did you know that all the trees that you see in your local environment are all part of the local land cover? Land cover data helps us understand how much of or what part of local regions to global locations are covered by landforms, trees and forests, wetlands, impervious surfaces, agriculture, and other land and water types. This webinar featured Peder Nelson, Researcher and Instructor and GLOBE Observer Land Cover Science Lead, from Oregon State University. Peder discussed the importance of land cover observations from the ground and space and focused on why trees are part of land cover. Highlights included the use of online tools for tree height, tree identification and classification, Landsat color bands, and land cover analysis. A focused Q&A session was led by Peter Falcon with many important questions being discussed.
Brian Campbell, Campaign Lead, gave the webinar introduction, highlighting the science of the campaign, and discussing campaign metrics. Dr. Christopher Shuman led his "Tree in the News" feature, discussing "An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel." Dorian Janney showcased how to use StoryMaps to create student research projects.
Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign's Trees in the News Segment with Dr. Christopher Shuman - An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel - December 2020
View the Presentation Slides PDF HERE!
Links to resources shown during the webinar
NASA Supercomputing Study Breaks Ground for Tree Mapping, Carbon Research
Landsat Spectral Characteristics Viewer
Global Forest Resources Assessment
Copernicus Land Monitoring System
Land Change Monitoring Assessment Projection (U.S.based)
Want to know more about Peder Nelson’s research and all about land cover and trees, prior to the December 8, 2020 webinar? Check out the pre-webinar interview above, with Peder Nelson, an instructor and research scientist from Oregon State University. Peder is also the co-lead for the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign and the NASA GLOBE Observer Land Cover Science Lead. This interview focuses on Peder’s land cover and tree research, utilizing online tools and satellite imagery to understand our world around us, the value of taking land cover observations in the local environment and about the vital information student research can provide the scientific community.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020 @ 3:00pm ET (8:00pm UTC, 9:00pm CET). Trees: The Lungs of the Earth. Trees are the lungs of our planet. Through photosynthesis they take up carbon dioxide and water and produce oxygen, a process that plays a critical role in the global carbon cycle. Dr. Erika Podest, a research scientist with the Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California USA, discussed the carbon cycle, the role of trees in it, and how scientists are using satellite data to better understand these processes. This webinar was part three of the first quarter Year 3 Scaffold Structure, focusing on the science (tree height, greenings, carbon cycle, land cover) of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign. Additional webinar features included how you can use Story Maps to showcase the trees in your environment and “Trees in the News” highlighting ways trees can fight climate change, Norway's funding of satellite maps of world's tropical forests, and a visual story of Amazon deforestation. Story Mapping of trees around the world for student research was featured and online tool discussion of how students can use online tools like NASA WorldView and the GLOBE Visualization System to analyze and visualize carbon cycle data.
Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign's Trees in the News Segment with Dr. Christopher Shuman - Plant Trees or Let Forests Regrow, Norway Funds Satellite Map of World'sTropical Forests, Amazon Deforestation, and NOVA: Can we cool the planet? - November 2020
View the Slide Presentation PDF HERE!
Links to resources shown during the webinar
Plant trees or let forests regrow? New studies probe two ways to fight climate change
Norway funds satellite map of world's tropical forests
Norway's International Climate and Forests Initiative Imagery Program (NICFI)
Current C02 level from the top of the Big Island of Hawaii
Freeze/Thaw - The Breathing Boreal Forest Classroom Activity
Estimates of pre-fire biomass for the continental United States
Reference for estimating biomass/carbon storage
Learn about and how to make your own Story Map
Global Above Ground Biomass (2010)
Want to know more about the webinar featured speaker, Dr. Erika Podest, and her carbon cycle science research? Check out the interview, above, with Dr. Podest, a research scientist from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This interview focuses on her carbon cycle research and the value of taking carbon cycle observations in the local environment and about the vital information student research can provide the scientific community.
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SPECIAL WEBINAR: Thursday, October 29, 2020 @ 11:00pm EDT (3:00am UTC, 11:00am Philippines Time Friday, October 30, 2020): Tree Height with the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign: Observing Tree Height and Comparing GLOBE and Space-based Tree Height Data. The GLOBE Asia - Pacific Regional coordination Office hosted a webinar on: "Trees Around the GLOBE: Students Research Campaign " that was presented by Brian Campbell (NASA) for teachers and students from various GLOBE schools in the GLOBE Asia-Pacific Region.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020 @ 9:00am EDT (1:00pm UTC, 3:00pm CET): Educators and Students Aligning Greenings and Tree Height: A Collaboration Between the European Phenology Campaign and the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign. European Phenology Campaign students from the Czech Republic: Primary School Pist and Primary School Hradec Kralove, Stefcova presented their student research on greenings and phenology. The European Phenology Campaign Lead, Lenka Kleger discussed the science of greenings and why the observations are so important to understanding local environments. The webinar highlighted the collaboration between both the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign and the European Phenology Campaign, with a focus on taking tree height measurements/observations at the same time participants take greenings (green up/green down) measurements. Additional webinar features included how you can use Story Maps to showcase the trees in your environment and “Trees in the News” highlighting France’s Parc National des Forêts de Champagne et Bourgogne.
Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign's Trees in the News Segment with Dr. Christopher Shuman - Parc National des Forêts de Champagne et Bourgogne - October 2020
View the Slide Presentation PDF HERE!
Additional Webinar Presentations
Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign Team Presentation
Primary School Pist - Czech Republic - Presentation
Primary School Hradec Kralove - Czech Republic - Presentation
Dorian Janney's My Trees Story Map
Links to resources shown during the webinar
Kyoto Historical Cherry Blossom Flowering Dates
National Cherry Blossom Festival
Japan's Cherry Blossoms are Emerging Increasingly Early
Want to know more about the GLOBE Europe and Eurasia Regional Coordination Officer and Team Lead for the European Phenology Campaign, Lenka Kleger, prior to the October 13, 2020 webinar? Check out our interview with Lenka Kleger and her work discussing the value of taking Greenings (Green-up and Green-Down) observations in your local environment and about the vital information student research can provide the scientific community. Check out the video above.
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Collaborative Webinar with the European Phenology Campaign: Thursday, October 8, 2020 @ 9:00am EDT (1:00pm EDT). From Leaves to Satellites. The webinar provided a look at the autumn change of trees from 3 different perspectives: inside the trees (Zuzana Lhotakova, Charles University); field observations and the importance of taking multiple observations at the same location at the same time (Brian Campbell, NASA), and satellite views and data analysis using online tools (Peder Nelson, Oregon State University).
Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign Presentation by Brian Campbell
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Collaborative Webinar with the European Phenology Campaign: Monday, September 21, 2020 @ 9:00am EDT (1:00pm EDT). All you need to know about the Autumn Campaign. Autumn campaign schedule, activities, and resources. Inspiration by the school collaboration project. Introduction to the Trees Around the GLOBE campaign by its lead Brian Campbell. Online tools looking at phenology from space introduced by Peder Nelson (Oregon State University).
European Phenology Campaign Team Presentation
Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign Presentation
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SPECIAL WEBINAR: Thursday, September 17, 2020 @ 2:00pm EDT (6:00pm UTC): GLOBE Student Investigations with NASA. Learn about resources and events that can support GLOBE student research during the 2020-2021 school year and prepare students to enter the GLOBE International Virtual Science Symposium (IVSS). Join this interactive webinar and hear from nine presenters about planned campaigns and events, data analysis, and tools to support you and your students. Collaborative webinar with NESEC, GLOBE Mission Earth, Arctic and Earth SIGNS, My NASA Data, and the GLOBE Implementation Office.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2020 @ 2:00pm EDT (6:00pm UTC): Kicking Off Year 3 With Tree Height Research Using Satellites and Ground-Based Instruments: The importance of tree and vegetation research to help us understand our changing planet. The Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign first featured science talk for Year 3 of the campaign. Dr. Nancy Glenn, a researcher from Boise State University, the University of New South Wales and an ICESat-2 Mission Early Adopter discussed her research with trees and tree canopy height, reinforcing the importance of research for students, and why tree height and land cover are important to helping us understand our planet. Dr. Glenn also discussed the use of satellite data from ICESat-2, GEDI, and Landsat, showcasing how this satellite data can be used in research and posed some vital research questions for campaign students and educators.
Introductory Campaign Slides with Data Metrics and Year 3 Highlights
Want to know more about our featured speaker, Dr. Nancy Glenn? Check out our interview with Dr. Glenn above. Learn all about how she became a trees and vegetation researcher and what she thinks students can focus their student research on.
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Archived Webinars from Year 2
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 @ 11:00am EDT (3:00pm UTC): Preparing for Year 3 of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign, Student Research Scaffolding, and highlighting the use of online tools. Preparing for Year 3 of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign, Student Research Scaffolding, and highlighting the use of online tools. This webinar marks the end of Year 2 of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign. The campaign team highlighted the structure for Year 3 of the campaign, including a new science and data research scaffold, the use of online tools and NASA mission data for student research and multi-campaign collaboration. Dr. Christopher Shuman highlighted how local natural events can impact trees and Peder Nelson focused on several online tools recommended for student research. During the last half of the webinar, we opened up the webinar to discuss some of the needs of the participants for Year 3 of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign: How to Start Taking Data
Travilah Oak - Maryland's Oldest Tree
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Wednesday, July 8, 2020 @ 10:00am EDT (2:00pm UTC): The Baobab Trees in South Africa as a Symbol of Life and Positivity: A historical link to humans through medicine and food. The Baobab Trees in South Africa as a Symbol of Life and Positivity: A historical link to humans through medicine and food. The Baobab is a prehistoric species of tree, which predates both mankind and the splitting of the continents over 200 million years ago. Native to the arid African savannah, the Baobab tree has a historical link to humans through medicine and food. Finn Rautenbach, a horticulturist, botanist and former curator at the Garden Route Botanical Garden in George, South Africa, discussed the significance of the Baobab tree, not only to science, but to culture, medicine, and food. Finn talked about the harnessing of the rich botanical wealth of South Africa for the conservation of its rich floral diversity and cultural heritage. The webinar also featured Trees in the News, Champion Trees, and a look at Baobab tree locations from space with Collect Earth.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
Pre-recorded Student Presentation - Club de Ciencias Huechulafquen
Links to resources shown during the webinar
40 Years of Forest Recovery - Mt. Saint Helens
A Deadly Bacteria Kills Olive Trees Across Southern Europe
Shuttle Radar Topography - NASA Worldview
Land Surface Temperature (Day) - NASA Worldview
Land Surface Temperature (Night) - NASA Worldview
Average Precipitation Data - NASA Giovanni
Total Precipitation Bias Corrected (Monthly) - NASA Worldview
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) - NASA Worldview
SMAP Surface Soil Moisture 9km (L4, 12z Instantaneous) - NASA Worldview
GLAS LiDAR-derived Global Estimate of Forest Canopy Height 2004-2008 - ICESat
December 14, 2020 Total Solar Eclipse
Club de Ciencias Huechulafquen Facebook Page
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Tuesday, May 5, 2020 @ 2:00pm EDT (6:00pm UTC; 8:00pm CEST): New Jersey Pinelands: The Nation's First National Preservation Area. Congress created the Pinelands National Reserve (PNR) through the passage of the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978. Mr. John D. Moore, Executive Director at the Institute for Earth Observations at the Palmyra Cove Nature Park in Palmyra Cove, New Jersey USA, discussed how the PNR is listed as the first National Reserve in the nation. Discussion on the PNR being approximately 1.1 million acres and spanning portions of seven counties and all or part of 56 municipalities was given. The reserve occupies 22% of New Jersey's land area and it is the largest body of open space on the Mid-Atlantic seaboard between Richmond and Boston ( Source: NJ Pinelands Commission). The NJ Pinelands is also home of one of the nation's largest freshwater aquifers, 17.7 trillion gallons, and is home to numerous endangered species and plants.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
NASA Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio
25 Years of Forest Dynamics visualization
United States Forest Disturbance Trends Observed Using Landsat Time Series
Global Forest Watch: Forest Monitoring Designed for Action
New Jersey Forest Service: New Jersey Big Trees
2020 National Register of Champion Trees
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020 @ 1:00pm EDT (5:00pm UTC, 7:00pm CEST): GLOBE Student Tree Research Extravaganza: Students from around the GLOBE share their amazing tree research. April 2020 is all about trees. During this amazing webinar, students and educators from Malta, Croatia, and the United States shared their tree research, tree culture, and personal tree stories. From tree heights, land cover, greenings, and phenology, we heard research projects that showcase measurements methods, results, and applications. We learned how these students are taking data to the next level. Check out the archived webinar below and also see the "Featured Talks" section for a more in-depth look at what was presented.
The Featured Talks:
Gozo College Middle School, Malta
Reaching Beyond National Boundaries: GLOBE Schools in Malta and Israel Celebrating Trees and Cultures
The GLOBE Deputy Coordinator of Malta, Ms. Ramona Mercieca together with the GLOBE Country Coordinator of Israel, Ms. Refaela Babish coordinated a collaborative project of schools from their respective countries.
The students’ love and enthusiasm about traditions and the significance of trees in their countries’ cultures led to an amazing learning experience during a video call between four schools, organized on February 11th. Students from the Gozo College Rabat Primary School, Victoria, and Gozo, all in Malta and the Begin Elementary School in Dimona, Israel each sang a song about trees and nature in their own language. Students attending the schools in Malta and students attending the Mosenson Youth Village High School in Hod Hasharon, Israel read a tree blessing in Maltese and Hebrew plus a translation in English, the communicating language. Two trees, a fig tree and an olive tree, symbolizing peace, were planted on the school grounds of each of the schools at the end of the video call, in honour of this international friendship. Plaques in English and Hebrew, to commemorate the event, were placed next to the trees.
That’s not all!! During webinar Ms. Mercieca and GLOBE students attending Gozo College Middle School, Victoria Gozo shared how their project is still underway, proving that schools can go beyond their walls and collaborate across countries.
III Osnovna Skola Varazdin, Croatia
Time of Budburst and Dynamics of Leaf Growth in Tilia cordata Mill. at Varaždin and Belišće, Croatia
In the past few years, observations have shown that tree budburst starts earlier, vegetation period of plants is prolonged and that spring begins earlier and winter later than ten years ago (Menzel, 2000). The monitoring time of budburst and dynamics of leaf growth can detect climate change and contribute to understanding how vegetation responds to climatic fluctuations during this period. We asked two questions: (1.) Does the geographical location affect the time of budburst and the vegetation period? and (2.) Which microclimate conditions have the greatest impact on time of budburst and the vegetation period?
Our hypothesis is that the budburst starts earlier in Belišće due to the lower altitude and warmer microclimate, but lasts longer in Varaždin due to precipitation and that soil temperature has the greatest influence on time of budburst and precipitation on vegetation period. The study was conducted in accordance with the GLOBE Phenology Protocol (Green Up Protocol) from 2015 to 2019. From the results, it can be concluded that the geographical position does not affect the time of budburst and vegetation period and that the main factors influencing the time of budburst are the air and soil temperature and relative humidity on vegetation period. It would be a good idea to compare today's research with those of 10 or 20 years ago. Perhaps our research will be used by future generations as evidence of the impact of climate change.
Crestwood High School, Michigan USA
An Assessment of the Role Urban Trees Play in Modifying Weather in a City Park
To assess the role trees play in modifying microclimates, an investigation was developed to measure the size (height and DBH) of over 120 trees at a park in Dearborn, Michigan. With the help of a professional forester, trees were identified by names for future research. The GLOBE Observer App helped to collect and submit the data. In addition, two PASCO weather stations helped to determine how trees modified selective weather parameters like
wind speed, temperature, and relative humidity of two different sites in Levagood Park. Site 1 was an area centered among a group of trees, while Site 2 was in an open short grass field without surrounding trees. Students would go to the sites, place their devices, and begin recording simultaneously for approximately 15 minutes. The data was then used to make graphs for comparing the two data sets. After analyzing the data, multiple correlations were found between them. We found several similarities and differences between the two sites. Although the data was collected during the winter with no leaves on trees, we hope to continue our research during the active growing season of 2020 to compare the effects with leaves to the data collected in the winter.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
GLOBE Stars and STEM Stories: Malta and Israel
GLOBE's Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
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Tuesday, March 17, 2020 @ 2:00pm EDT (6:00pm UTC): The use of LiDAR to derive tree heights and other structural vegetation characteristics: Applications for mapping habitats in a post-fire environment (© 2020 California Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged). Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is an optical remote sensing technology that is helpful to measure forest biophysical and structural characteristics, including tree height. Quantifying the vertical distribution of vegetation using LiDAR has many potential applications in forest management and biodiversity conservation. Some of the tree structural attributes derived from LiDAR, including tree height, crown diameter, and canopy density, can help characterize vegetation and map species habitat. Dr. Latha Baskaran, from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, presented results from a study over the Angeles National Forest where she and her fellow scientists used canopy height derived from LiDAR, along with airborne imaging spectrometer data, to map forest habitats in a post-fire environment. Peder Nelson highlighted using the Collect Earth online tool to view and analyze land cover and tree height data.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
Dr. Latha Baskaran Profile Page
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
"A New Measuring Stick for Forests"
Report on First Global Tree Height Map
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Tuesday, February 18, 2020 @ 3:00pm EST (8:00pm UTC): Trees Around Greenbelt, Maryland: Exploring Past and Present Imagery, From a Scientist's Perspective. University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientist, Dr. Christopher Shuman highlighted historical imagery from aerial photographs, as well as more recent satellite imagery and ICESat-2 data from the Greenbelt, Maryland area. There was discussion of benefits and limitations to these data. This information serves to show students and educators how to use imagery from their local environments/locations to assist in research projects and local programs. Peder Nelson also discussed how to use Google Earth Engine to map out specific locations on GLOBE participant research on trees and land cover.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
USGS EROS Archive - Aerial Photography
American Forests - Champion Trees
NOAA - All About Tree Rings and Tree Cores
Travilah Oak - Maryland's Oldest Tree
Google Earth Engine Timelapse for Greenbelt, Maryland
NASA Population Density Estimates
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020 @ 2:00pm EST (7:00pm UTC): How Much Water Do Trees Use and Need? NASA's New ECOSTRESS Mission on the International Space Station. Dr. Joshua Fisher, from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, talks about how the new NASA ECOSTRESS Mission monitors trees. NASA launched the ECOSTRESS mission to the International Space Station in 2018. ECOSTRESS measures the temperature of plants, and uses that temperature to determine how much water they are using--and losing through evapotranspiration--as well as the water stress and efficiency. The resolutions of ECOSTRESS enable it to see individual farms as well as changes throughout the day.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
The Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC)
The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS)
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019 @ 8:00pm EST (1:00am UTC): Open Forum II: Bringing Together GLOBE Students to Informally Chat About Trees Campaign Student Research Projects. During this second open forum webinar, we invited GLOBE teachers around the world to tune in with their students during classroom time. Our goal was to have students and teachers chat informally and comfortably about research local, GLOBE SRS and GLOBE IVSS projects they can do using GLOBE Tree Height, Land Cover, and Greenings (Green Up/Green Down) protocol measurements. Several subject matter experts discussed how trees are researched.
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Tuesday, December 3, 2019 @ 9:00am EST (2:00pm UTC): Open Forum I: Bringing Together GLOBE Students to Informally Chat About Trees Campaign Student Research Projects. During this first open forum webinar, we invited GLOBE teachers around the world to tune in with their students during classroom time. Our goal was to have students chat informally and comfortably about research local, GLOBE SRS and GLOBE IVSS projects they can do using GLOBE Tree Height, Land Cover, and Greenings (Green Up/Green Down) protocol measurements. Students interacted with other students from around the world and came up with some great potential research questions.
Links to resources shown during the two Open Forum webinars
2020 GLOBE International Virtual Science Symposium
My NASA Data Earth System: Matter and Energy Cycles
NASA Earth Observatory Carbon Cycle
Map Depicts Global Forest Heights
ICESat GLAS LiDAR-derived Global Estimates of Forest Canopy Height, 2004-2008
Examining the Viability of Planting Trees to Help Mitigate Climate Change
GLOBE Measure Tree Height on a Slope
Finding Oregon's Tallest Trees
Maryland's Oldest Tree: Travilah Oak
2019 National Register of Champion Trees
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Tuesday, November 12, 2019 @ 2:00pmEDT (7:00pm UTC): Getting Comfortable with ICESat-2 Height Data and the Open Altimetry Online Tool. One of the major ways students can perform student research is to compare GLOBE student and citizen science tree height data to height data from the NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2). By comparing this data, students can see just how close the satellite tracks over their locations and if certain GLOBE-measured trees have been measured by ICESat-2. Amy FitzGerrell, from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Colorado, guided us with an interactive tutorial of the Open Altimetry online tool.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
ICESat-2 Elevates our View of Earth
NASA GLOBE Observer Trees Tool Promo Video
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Tuesday, October 8, 2019 @ 2:00pm EDT (6:00pm UTC): Year 2 of the Campaign Begins: Discussion on Data Counts, Year 1 Data Champions, ICESat-2 Data, and What Lies Ahead. This webinar discussed the successes of the first year of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign. We highlighted those campaign participants (teachers and students) that went above and beyond with taking measurements and using the data to make sense of what is happening in their environments and what this means for the big picture of our planet. We also took a look at some of the online resources where satellite data can be visualized and used as comparison data to the GLOBE student and citizen science data.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
ICESat-2 Elevates our View of Earth
Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign Promo Video
NASA GLOBE Observer Trees Tool Promo Video
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Archived Webinars from Year 1
SPECIAL WEBINAR: Tuesday, July 23, 2019 @ 2:00pm EDT (6:00pm UTC): Explore, Access, and Customize ICESat-2 Data at the NASA NSIDC DAAC. This webinar introduced the ICESat-2 mission along with a live demonstration that showed how to explore, access and customize NASA ICESat-2 data. In particular, highlights of the the advanced discovery and visualization features of OpenAltimetry, the ability to directly filter and access ICESat-2 data from an NSIDC DAAC data set page, and programmatic Python-based subsetting, reformatting, and analysis resources. Visit NASA's NSIDC DAAC to discover snow and ice data, services and tools: https://nsidc.org/daac.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2019 @ 2:00pm EDT (6:00pm UTC): Lessons from a Southern Old-Growth Bottomland Forest: Live from Congaree National Park. Congaree National Park (www.nps.gov/cong) protects the largest intact remnant of southern old-growth bottomland (floodplain) forest remaining in North America. Similar forests once covered over 35 million acres of river bottoms in the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains and up the Mississippi River Valley. Some of the park’s champion trees are 700 to 1,000 years old. The park is also home to the NPS Old-Growth Bottomland Forest Research and Education Center, which facilitates research and scholarship related to forest ecology, environmental history, and more. Dr. David Shelley, Center Director, highlighted some key findings, unanswered questions, and park management challenges—as well as a few personal lessons from the forest.
Links to resources shown during webinar
Make Your Own Landsat Time Series Tutorial
Make Your Own Satellite Animations of Change Resources and Links
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019 @ 12:00pm EDT (4:00pm UTC): What Greens Up, Must Green Down: Greenings Live from Switzerland. During the webinar, GLOBE Master Trainer, Markus Eugster and his students, from the Sekundarschule Uzwil in Switzerland, highlighted their research on Greenings (Green-Up and Green-Down) during their tree investigations. The students have been monitoring the beginning and ending of the growing season of trees helps scientists track plant growing seasons, through a Swiss GLOBE program called PhenoCam, a way to use automated cameras to take images of trees and create time-lapse videos and run color analysis of the trees over time.
Links to resources shown during webinar
Webinar questions, please contact Markus Eugster
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Tuesday, May 7, 2019 @ 2:30pm EDT (6:30pm UTC): Tree Height, Wetlands, and the Invasive Task Force: Live from New York. Student Emily Youngberg from Mahopac High School in Mahopac, New York presented her research on tree heights, wetlands, and invasive species. Invasive species, in New York, continue to have an impact on trees. Jennifer Learner from the Cornell Cooperative Extension at Cornell University, Brent Boscarino, PhD from the Invasive Strike Force and Lower Hudson Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management, and Jeff Mapes from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Trees for Tribs Program have been working to understand these impacts on trees and potentially eradicate these invasive species. Each of these external programs are working with Emily and fellow Mahopac High School student as their research continues.
Links to resources shown during the webinar
Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign Promotional Video
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Trees for Tribs Program
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Tuesday, March 19, 2019 @ 9:00am EDT (1:00pm UTC): Our Connection to the Land: Observing Trees and Forests Using Citizen Science for Language Revitalization. Oscar Garza and student named "cʔúlixʷ" (White-tailed doe) from the Kalispel Salish Tribe showed how GLOBE protocols (specifically Green Up/Green Down) and citizen science have the potential to help efforts of many communities around the world in their task on language, culture and landscape revitalization and preservation in a dual-learning environment. Many indigenous cultures around the world possess a different perspective about forestry and our connection to the land. They hold a vast richness of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). Much of that richness is embedded in the language. Oscar will be respectfully shared his experience from work done at Kalispel Language Survival School (K-4) and almost 2 years of Forestry college at Salish Kootenai College in efforts to revitalize the language in the Salish corridor.
Links to websites shown during the webinar
2019 Year of Indigenous Languages
Oscar Garza's Kalispel Salish Presentation
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Tuesday, February 19, 2019 @ 2:00pm EST (7:00pm UTC): Resources for Trees Research and Guiding Investigative Questions. During this webinar, Forest Researcher and Professor, Peder Nelson and Campaign Lead, Brian Campbell introduced new campaign Guiding Investigative Questions that provide students with questions to explore while collecting and analyzing their GLOBE protocol data. Also, several major resources, to assist students in extending their data analysis were presented, demonstrated, and discussed. The January 2019 Tree Height Intensive Observation Period Winner, Marina Sambolek was announced. Congratulations!
Links to websites shown during the webinar
GLOBE Advanced Data Access System
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Tuesday, January 15, 2019 @ 2:00pm EST (7:00pm UTC): Investigation of Park Mlaka: Live from Croatia. Marina Pavlic and student Dora Mendes, from the Prirodoslovna i grafička škola in Croatia discussed their investigation of Park Mlaka in Mlaka County, Croatia. For several years, students developed an overarching hypothesis of, "The trees in Park Mlaka produce enough oxygen for the inhabitants of the entire Mlaka County." The research took place from 2016-2018. Current students are engaging in research that extends the research on this hypothesis, using biometry, carbon cycle, and aerosol GLOBE protocols. Park Mlaka has been well-studied by Marina and her student and the data shared with the local community and decision-makers.
Links to videos shown during the webinar
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Monday, December 3, 2018 @ 8:00pm EST (1:00am UTC Tuesday, December 4, 2018): Getting Tree Science Done: Live from Shumate Middle School in Gibraltar, Michigan. Join GLOBE Teacher, Jeff Bouwman, and his students Brady and Thomas discussed just how doing GLOBE Tree Science at Shumate Middle School is helping them understand their local environment. Through measuring tree height, identifying tree species, and taking local baseline protocol measurements, the students play a vital role in helping the rest of the world understand how local environmental measurements are of global importance. Hear about how fun and easy taking tree height measurements can be in your classroom.
Links to videos shown during the webinar:
Soil Texture and Michigan Christmas Trees
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Tuesday, November 27, 2018 @ 2:00pm EST (7:00pm UTC): Acquire - Analyze - Apply (A3): Live from the Institute for Earth Observations in Palmyra Cove, New Jersey USA. During this webinar, we heard from Executive Director, John D. Moore and Director of Science, Technology, and Education, Peter Dorofy, both from the Institute for Earth Observations and members of the GLOBE Mission Earth collaborative. John and Peter discussed what science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) , Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) , and Career Technical Education (CTE) have in common. The "ACQUIRE- ANALYZE- APPLY (A3) Project introduces teachers and students to important 21st century skill-sets. As the role of Earth Observing Satellites, like ICESat-2, become more of a remote sensing tool that impacts our daily lives and decision making, GLOBE students, and beyond, can experience these proficiencies. In addition to the students collecting their GLOBE protocol data as part of the Trees Around the GLOBE Campaign, other remote sensing techniques, such as drones and NASA AEROKAT kites, allow students and teachers to gather their own tree and land cover imagery and data. HoloGLOBE is an Augmented Reality tool that allows teachers and students to Acquire, Analyze, and Apply real time data satellite imagery and data in a unique and cutting-edge way. Peter introduced us to how the data on HoloGLOBE can be viewed and serve as a complementary data observation tool for GLOBE students and educators to compare their GLOBE data.
Links to videos shown during the webinar:
GLOBE Observer (video under Land Cover)
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SPECIAL WEBINAR: Thursday, November 15, 2018 @ 6:00pm EST (11:00pm UTC): NASA GLOBE Partnership, Elementary GLOBE, Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign and the ICESat-2 Mission. This webinar highlighted the ICESat-2 Mission, the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign, and the Elementary GLOBE Reader. During the webinar, NASA'S Valerie Casasanto discussed the ICESat-2 Mission and demonstrated some hands-on activities and NASA's Brian Campbell presented on the importance of measuring tree height from the ground and space and discussed how participants could become involved with the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign. During the webinar, there were 42 live participants from five countries, including Croatia, Poland, Estonia, Argentina, and the United States (including Puerto Rico).
Links to videos shown during the webinar:
The Arctic and Antarctic Respond in Opposite Ways (updated video)
Photon Jump: The Adventures of Pho the Photon
ICESat-2 Elevates our View of Earth
ICESat-2 Fun Page with Classroom Activities for K-12
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018 @ 2:00pm EDT (6:00pm UTC): Collect Earth: Live from Oregon USA with Researcher Peder Nelson. The webinar began with Brian Campbell discussing the NASA ICESat-2 Mission and why the campaign is collaborating with the mission. Following this, Peder Nelson introduced and detailed the Collect Earth online tool. Collect Earth is designed so that users can analyze high and very high-resolution satellite imagery for different purposes, including: land cover, land use, and forest mapping. Peder also discussed why we need ground-based photos, including clouds and land cover, via the GLOBE Observer Citizen Science App. A Collect Earth connection to wildlife, ie. mosquitoes was also highlighted. Prior to the webinar, it was recommended that all participants visit the Collect Earth Website.
Links to videos shown during the webinar:
Landsat Sets the Standard for Maps of World’s Forests
ICESat-2 Elevates our View of Earth
ICESat-2 by the Numbers: 1,387
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018 @ 2:00pm EDT (6:00pm UTC): Trees Around the GLOBE Kickoff. During this webinar, we kicked off the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign by discussing the campaign logistics, what to expect, what GLOBE protocols to use to collect data and see how the NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 Mission fits into the campaign. We also highlighted the plan for the campaign's use of student collaboration, GLOBE data, and research projects. See the archived webinar below!
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