U of Toledo Activities

2022 Highlights

Teacher Professional Development

  • UT and Earth Heart Farms educated local teachers and students on environmental issues by visiting the farm in Oak Harbor, Ohio, to study the relationship of farm runoff and algal blooms in Lake Erie.
  • GME/BWET Professional Development expanded with the addition of the AquaROVER (Remotely Operated Vehicles for Education and Research) materials from the AREN project. Teachers can now take water quality data from offshore areas of water bodies.
  • UT was part of the team who hosted the 2022 GLOBE North American Regional Meeting at the Toledo Zoo.

Outreach to Students

International GLOBE Community

Student Research Support

  • Ten projects involving 23 students from Aerospace and Natural Science Academy of Toledo, Ohio, and Crestwood High School, Dearborn Heights, Mich., were submitted to IVSS 2022.
  • As part of the Midwest Earth System Science Collaborative, UT partnered with Dr. Michael Notaro (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and David Bydlowski (Wayne RESA-AREN Project) to host the Midwest Earth System Science Virtual Student Research Symposium (video). Ten schools involving over 78 students presented 24 projects live or virtually.
  • Three students from Crestwood High School, Dearborn Heights, Mich., were chosen to participate in the virtual 2022 GLOBE Annual Meeting.

2022 News Stories

GLOBE Mission EARTH news

2021 Activities

In the 2020-2021 school year, students from 20 schools entered data for 1,635 observations to the GLOBE website. UT leads the efforts of GLOBE Mission EARTH (GME), a collaborative of institutions whose mission is to increase involvement in the GLOBE program funded by NASA. Dr. Kevin Czajkowski is the lead scientist on the Urban Heat Island Effect-Surface Temperature Intensive Observation Period. 

As part of the Midwest Earth System Science Collaborative, UT partnered with Dr. Michael Notaro (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and David Bydlowski (Wayne RESA-AREN Project) to host the Midwest Earth System Science Virtual Student Research Symposium. More details are available at GLOBE Research Done in the Time of COVID: Students Showcase Their Work. 

Some students presented their research at other conferences. Thirty-one students from four schools submitted 21 projects to IVSS 2021. Three students from Crestwood High School presented at the virtual 2021 GLOBE Annual Meeting.  Eleven students presented seven projects at the AGU Conference in December 2021. 

To reach students from grades 3-4 in GLOBE, Kids Club, an online afterschool interaction, engaged 16 students in learning about clouds, budbursts, and trees. 

UT expanded its reach to high school students in the STEM Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) program and the Upward Bound program. Upward Bound students collected GLOBE water quality data on the Ottawa River and studied heat islands on UT’s campus. 

GME-UT teamed up with Mission Mosquito to present Ouch Stop Biting Me! where students learned about the Great Black Swamp and Lake Erie and submitting data to the Mission Mosquito Campaign for the Lake Erie Water Festival held virtually in May. 

The GME/BWET Google Classroom expanded with the addition of the TerraROVER (Remotely Operated Vehicles for Education and Research) materials from the AREN project. More details are available at B-WET Professional Development 2020-2021 & AREN Project and GME Team Up in TerraRover Training in Five Locations. 

GME-UT is working with Dr. Vasco Mantas, University of Coimbra, Portugal, to study the urban heat islands of sports fields with artificial turf or natural grass during Landsat overpasses. 

Other collaborative efforts included the following organizations: OhioView, America View, National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), Science Education Council of Ohio (SECO), Raisin River Institute. 

2021 News Stories