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02/28/2022
NASA GLOBE Cloud Challenge Exceeds Expectations: Badge and Certificates Now Available
Observations tallied in at over 42 thousand with 108,214 photos being added to the GLOBE database. Not only did observations come in from 89 countries from all around the world, but all seven continents are represented in the data. Cloud Challenge participants really delivered on the satellite match goal and provided nearly 50 thousand satellite matches.
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01/13/2022
NASA Langley Features the Cloud Challenge: Clouds in a Changing Climate
During this year's challenge, which runs 15 January through 15 February, GLOBE is asking you to observe clouds in two ways. Make sure to consider the following: How do the clouds above your head connect to what's happening on a global scale?
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01/05/2022
Free and Open to the Public -- Webinars for the NASA GLOBE Cloud Challenge 2022: Clouds in a Changing Climate
Make plans to attend one of the following information and training opportunities as part of the NASA GLOBE Cloud Challenge 2022: Clouds in a Changing Climate.
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07/13/2021
Big Changes to GLOBE Observer and GLOBE’s Data Entry System are Now Here!
We’re happy to announce that a long-term project has come to conclusion. Monday, 12 July marked the release of a number of changes and additions to the GLOBE Observer app.
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03/26/2019
Help NASA Measure Trees with Your Smartphone
Healthy forests play a crucial role in Earth’s ecosystem as growing trees take up carbon from the atmosphere. NASA satellites and airborne missions study forests to see how carbon moves through ecosystems – and now citizen scientists can help investigate this key question as well by using their smartphone to measure tree height.
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03/26/2019
GLOBE Observer Trees Facebook Live
Join GLOBE Observer LIVE for a special Facebook Live event all about Trees on 26 March 2018 at 3:00 p.m. EDT.
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10/22/2018
Land Cover Challenge Winners 2018
Citizen scientists from all of the GLOBE regions -- and from 25 countries -- participated in the 2018 Land Cover Challenge.
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04/10/2018
Celebrate Citizen Science Day 2018 with Us
Happy Citizen Science Day 2018! This week on the NASA GLOBE Observer social media pages (Facebook and Twitter) you can learn more about seven other citizen science projects that you can do with NASA.
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07/21/2017
NASA Invites You to Become a Citizen Scientist During US Total Solar Eclipse
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment, or GLOBE, Program is a NASA-supported research and education program that encourages students and citizen scientists to collect and analyze environmental observations. GLOBE Observer is a free, easy-to-use app that guides citizen scientists through data collection.
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