2025 Symposium - United States of America

On 5–12 May 2025, students from across the United States had the opportunity to come together virtually to share the results of field investigations using GLOBE. 

Read the 2025 GLOBE SRS Highlights!

Elementary Level

• How does the new asphalt path near the prairie contribute to the Urban Heat Island Effect?, Hawkins STEMM Academy, OH

• Cloud Observations, Mast Way Elementary School, NH

 

Middle School Level

• A Short Study of Contrails Over the Sonoran Desert, Fountain Hills Middle School, AZ

• Do Microplastics and pH Correlate?, Hillcrest K–8, CA

• What’s up with our Water?, Hillcrest K–8, CA

• The Effects of Toxins in Our School Water, Hillcrest K–8, CA

• Utilizing GLOBE/NASA data to confirm the rising atmospheric temperatures resulting in increases in water vapor with consequently disastrous climate crises, iLEAD Exploration Home School, CA

• Organism Movement Impacted by Rain and Temperature Change, International School of Texas, TX

• How does air temperature in Ohio change from 1996 to 2024?, Saint Rose Catholic School, OH

• How much carbon is stored in the trees on campus?, Saint Rose Catholic School, OH

• How does the quality of the Maumee River water change from fall to spring?, Saint Rose Catholic School, OH

• Solar Wave Lengths & Their Effect on Pollution in Edison, NJ, The Wardlaw Hartridge School, NJ

• Urban Heat Island, The Wardlaw Hartridge School, NJ

• A Novel Approach To Neutralize Cola, Wooster City Schools, OH

 

High School Level

• Assessing Local Water Quality Indicators Through Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Pollution Indicators, All Saints Episcopal School, TX

• Oswego & Onondaga County Water Quality, APW Jr/Sr HS, NY

• How does rainfall affect pH and dissolved oxygen levels of water sources, Bishop Conaty Our Lady of Loretto, CA

• Effects on Cloud Formation from Extreme Aerosols and Heat, Bishop Conaty Our Lady of Loretto, CA

• Seasonal patterns, Bishop Conaty Our Lady of Loretto, CA

• Evaluating Hydrosphere Protocols in Correlation with Microplastic Levels in the Rouge River, Crestwood High School, MI

• An Analysis of Autumn Cloud, Land, and Water Measurements at a Campus in Southeastern Michigan, Crestwood High School, MI

• Relationships Between Bat Activity and Select Atmospheric Parameters in Two Suburban Habitats, Crestwood High School, MI

• Soil Respiration and Compaction: Trampling effects in Discovery and Prairie Loop, Early College T-STEM & STEM Academy, TX

• Effects of Food Waste on the Biosphere (Phase I), Garrett High School, IN

• Impact of Soil pH and Surface Temperature on Tree Health and Growth, International School of Texas, TX

• Temperature Correlation to Birdsong, International School of Texas, TX

• Cottonwood Creek Water Quality Assessment, Knik Charter School, AK

• Carbon Dioxide Absorption in Plants, Melvindale High School, MI

• Water Quality Throughout Sausal Creek, Skyline High School, CA

• The Cooling Power of Trees, Skyline High School, CA

• Soil Nutrient Levels Lab, Skyline High School, CA

• Testing filtered and unfiltered water at Skyline High School, Skyline High School, CA

• How does fire effect the soil's fertility levels?, Skyline High School, CA

• Polarity and Nutrients, Skyline High School, CA

• Albinism's effect on soil: Coast Redwood, Skyline High School, CA

• Tree pH and Water Retention, Skyline High School, CA

• Uncovering Environmental Nontuberculous Mycobacteria of Respiratory Significance in Northeast Texas, UT Tyler University Academy at Tyler, TX

• Trees and their impact on carbon storage and surface temperature, a comparative study, UT Tyler University Academy at Tyler, TX

• Correlation of Soil Nutrients to the Presence of Non-Tuberculosis Mycobacteria (NTM), UT Tyler University Academy at Palestine, TX

• Do Chemical Processing Plant Emissions Affect Local Water Quality?, UT Tyler University Academy at Longview, TX

• Using Historical Idiomatic Expression to Solve Modern Maple Syrup Bacteria Contamination, Wooster City Schools, OH

Acknowledgement: The 2025 SRS was based upon work supported by NASA (Grant no. 80NSSC25M7054). Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of NASA.