News - United States of America

In the spring of 2017, The GLOBE Program held six regional Student Research Symposia (SRS), where teachers and students from schools across the country shared the results of their field investigations using GLOBE protocols. In the first of a series of feature stories, we profile a teacher (form the University of Texas at Tyler Innovation Academy) and his students -- and their experience at the Southwest SRS in Denver, Colorado.  >>

In November, twenty-two United States GLOBE Partners, from a range of new and experienced GLOBE Partnerships, gathered in New Orleans, Louisiana to begin a week together, learning and discussing the use of GLOBE with the communities that they serve.  >>

Using Eco-Schools and GLOBE watch as students from Woodlawn School in Oregon achieved the coveted Green Flag.  >>

NH students collect data for NASA studies of 2017 eclipse. August 21, 2017, the day the sun and the moon shadow danced across the United States, brought a multitude of memories…and gifts. For astrophysicists, biologists, meteorologists, entomologists—almost any science “ists” you can name—the eclipse rendered literally billions of data that will deepen our understanding of the universe, from the elements found in faraway stars to the behavior of Earth-bound microorganisms. For those who wanted only to see an eclipse in their lifetime, the rewards were perhaps less quantifiable but just as profound: awe, astonishment, contemplation, celebration, and maybe even a few moments of shared, absolute silence. But while the sight of the moon drifting across the face of the sun was stunning, it was the image of millions of faces looking up – not down at our smart phones, not down at our laptops, not down at our feet lost in thought – but up at a natural miracle that made this eclipse different from any that have come before. GLOBE Program US Country Coordinator Jen Bourgeault, who is based at the Joan and James Leitzel Center for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at the University of New Hampshire, noted that any of her UNH peers with a professional interest in the eclipse was far from campus that day, conducting experiments in or near the path of totality.  >>

The latest GLOBE Boot camp spent the day at INFINITY Science Center learning Hydrology protocols with Anne Lewis.  >>

NASA has introduced the Mosquito Habitat Mapper as part of its GLOBE Observer app available for iPhone and Android. This app includes training, making it easy for anyone to use.  >>

Tip of the Week: Need to find a GLOBE Partner or Country Coordinator? There’s a tool for that!  >>

Congratulations to the students of four schools who were selected by random drawing today to receive a stipend to help defray the cost of attending the GLOBE Annual Meeting in News Haven Connecticut in New Haven this summer.  >>

The first of the six student research symposia, the Southeast Regional Science Symposium, will take place at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama from 27-29 April. Read here for more information.  >>

The GLOBE Implementation Office will celebrate Earth Day 2017 on Friday 21 April with a special Google. Hangout that will feature one video from each GLOBE region. Enter your video to be the one from your region!  >>