News - University of Arkansas

On Wednesday, 12 June, the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign webinar “Lessons from a Southern Old-Growth Bottomland Forest – Live from Congaree National Park,” will be held at 2:00 p.m. EDT (6:00 p.m. UTC).  >>

Are you participating in the Trees Around the GLOBE Campaign? Then you may want to read the latest GLOBE Community Blog, ““ICESat-2 Tree Height Data is Now Available...BUT,” written by Brian Campbell, NASA Senior Earth Science Education Specialist.  >>

The mission of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Adopt a Drifter Program (ADP) is to establish scientific partnerships between schools around the world and to engage students in activities and communication about ocean climate science. GLOBE schools are invited to adopt a drifter today!  >>

Tip of the Week: Have you wondered how the GLOBE Clouds team at NASA Langley matches your cloud observations to satellite data? As Marile Colon Robles noted in her recent Community Blog, a new release entitled: "NASA GLOBE Clouds: Documentation on How Satellite Data is Collocated to Ground Cloud Observations" is now available.  >>

The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Region continues to demonstrate strong regional collaboration in the GLOBE Zika Education and Prevention Project. On 03 May, Colombia, Brazil, and Peru organized a “Triple Frontier” Country Mosquito Training (CMT) in Leticia, Colombia.  >>

The Globe Program would like to congratulate the top most active Trees Around the Globe Student Research Campaign participants taking at least 10 measurements for tree height, greenings, and land cover measurements for the campaign in May!  >>

On Thursday, 06 June (9:30 a.m. EDT/13:30 UTC), the webinar “How Cool is the Eclipse? Collect Data with GLOBE” will be presented. This is Webinar #2 in a series of webinars that are intended for GLOBE teachers and students in South America (especially Argentina and Chile; however, they are open to anyone who is interested) to learn about eclipses, to prepare to collect GLOBE data, and to get some tips for analyzing the data they collect. The webinars will be held in Spanish.  >>

Educators – Join the GLOBE Mission Mosquito (GMM) Field Measurement Campaign Webinar #8 “Check Out the Buzz” on Wednesday, 05 June, at 2:00 p.m. ET.  >>

A recent article published by The New York Academy of Science (NYAS), “Wisdom of the Crowd: Citizen Science in the Digital Age,” highlights The GLOBE Program and the enduring value of the program’s data-collection efforts.  >>

Congratulations to the 13 GLOBE countries celebrating anniversaries of successful GLOBE implementation during the month of June.  >>