Mission Resources - United States of America

1. Download the GLOBE Observer App and create a GLOBE account or log in with your existing account.
2. Join the NASA Response Mappers Team.
3. Use the Landcover Protocol to take land cover photos of the same location periodically, ideally once a week or month, August through October.

NASA Response Mappers Informational Webinar: Learn how to collect the data and hear from NASA scientists about the project.

NASA

• How do Hurricanes Form. Background information.
• Hurricane Sandy to Scale: My NASA Data Lesson. Grades 6-8, 50 minutes.
• Hurricanes as Heat Engines: My NASA Data Lesson. Grades 6-12, 90 minutes.
• Hurricane Dynamics: My NASA Data Data Literacy Cubes. Grade 3-12, 30 minutes.

NOAA

• How Do Hurricanes Form? Video, 2:23 minutes.
• Hurricane Simulation. Build a hurricane and explore relationship between sea surface temperature and hurricane strength.
• Follow That Hurricane Activity. Use latitude and longitude to track the path of hurricanes. Grades 3-12.
• Information on Hurricane Safety

• Hurricanes! by Gail Gibbons
• The Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane by Joanna Cole (author) and Bruce Degen (illustrator)
• Over in the Wetlands: A Hurricane-on-the-Bayou Story by Caroline Starr Rose (author) and Rob Dunlavey (illustrator)
• Two Bobbies : A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival by Kirby Larson, Mary Nethery, and Jean Cassels (illustrator)
• Zane and the Hurricane by Rodman Philbrick

• Solid Precipitation Protocol Field Guide and Lab Guide (including new snow depth, snowpack depth, and snow water equivalent, see the full precipitation protocol here)

• Clouds (Optional, available on The GLOBE Program’s app, GLOBE Observer)

• Educators and Students Weather the Storm in Support of NASA's IMPACTS Mission (GLOBE, 17 April 2023)
• What scientists are hoping to learn by flying directly into snowstorms (NPR Shortwave podcast, 17 March 2023; 13 minutes); Podcast transcript
• Scientists are flying into snowstorms to explore winter storm mysteries (NPR Shortwave podcast, 27 February 2023; 4 minutes); Podcast transcript

• NASA tracks winter storms from Georgia (Fox 5 Atlanta, 24 February 2023; 2 minutes)

• Mission SnowGLOBE Informational Webinar: Learn how to participate and what data you will collect. Slides from the webinar

• Mission SnowGLOBE Webinar for Students and Educators: Learn the science behind the mission and how to connect with the scientists

• GLOBE "Precipitation - Snow" eTraining

• The GLOBE Observer App can be used to record data and send it to GLOBE.

• Simple directions for making a snowboard

• Current Snow Depth Map from the USDA Forest Service is a great resource to complement Mission SnowGLOBE!

• How-to take snowflake photos using your phone and a laser pointer

• Map to track NASA flights in real time

• Calendar for NASA Airborne Science Program

• CoCoRaHS - The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network is a non-profit, community-based network of volunteers of all ages and backgrounds working together to measure and map precipitation (rain, hail and snow). A great complement to GLOBE!

• It's Snowing by Gail Gibbons

• The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter's Wonder by Mark Cassino

• Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

• Curious About Snow by Gina Shaw

• Snowflakes in Photographs by W.A. Bentley

• The Secret Life of a Snowflake by Kenneth Libbrecht

• Studying Snowflakes by Joseph Otterman

• 'We Love Snow' recommended reading from the Wisconsin Water Library