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This week we welcome long-time friend of GLOBE, Dr. Margaret LeMone, Chief Scientist for the GLOBE Program from 2003-2009, as our guest blogger. Dr. LeMone is currently working in the field of weather and cloud formation at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
Originally posted at http://spark.ucar.edu/blog/measuring-rainfall on September 23, 2013.
Dr. Margaret LeMone,
Credit: UCAR
Dr. Margaret LeMone is an NCAR Senior Scientist who studies weather and cloud formation. For more information about her research, visit Dr. LeMone's home page .
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GLOBE Science Topics:
BACKYARD SCIENCE
Investigation Areas:
PRECIPITATION
This week’s blog post comes to us from Dr. Janis Steele and Dr. Brooks McCutchen. Drs. Steele and McCutchen, along with their three sons, have been aboard Research Vessel Llyr since April 24, 2013. Read about their adventure in the Intertropical Convergence Zone here .
When people think of life in the seas, it is often the majestic that comes to mind, such aswhales, sharks, rays and coral reefs, or our own sustenance in the form of the fish that feed billions of us around the world. Rarely do we think of plankton, the tiny organisms found across the world's oceans. Plankton ...
Blog originally posted on The GLOBE Scientists' Blog: http://blog.globe.gov/sciblog/2013/07/03/the-czech-republic-celebrates-globe-through-globe-games/
This week’s blog post is written in coordination between Jessica Mackaro and Dana Votapkova, former Country Coordinator for the Czech Republic. Ms. Votapkova is the project manager and GLOBE consultant for the TEREZA Association, a non-governmental organization for environmental education in the Czech Republic and is a regional help desk officer for the Europe and Eurasia region.
The idea of GLOBE Games was ...
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GLOBE Science Topics:
MEETINGS/CONFERENCES
Blog originally posted on The GLOBE Scientists' Blog: http://blog.globe.gov/sciblog/2013/06/26/north-america-and-hurricane-vulnerability-a-project-to-improve-forecasts/
The month of June brings with it hurricane season in the North Atlantic Ocean basin. Both countries in GLOBE’s North America Region, Canada and the United States, are affected by these storms. It is important to remember that tropical cyclones are named differently in various locations. In the Atlantic and east of the International Date Line in the North Pacific, they’re called hurricanes. In the ...
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GLOBE Science Topics:
GENERAL SCIENCE
Schools in Greece Participate in Earth Observation Day Via Donation from West Virginia University
West Virginia University faculty member and GLOBE scientist Dr. Rick Landenberger provided students at five Greek schools with scientific equipment to participate in Earth Observation Day, a STEM (Science, Education, Engineering, and Mathematics) educational event organized by the AmericaView consortium in partnership with the international SATELLITES Program and GLOBE. The schools included the 6 th Gymnasium of Volos, the 3 rd Lyceum of Aigaleo, the Gymnasium of Tinos, the 1 ...
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Blog originally posted on The GLOBE Scientists' Blog: http://blog.globe.gov/sciblog/2013/06/19/when-bad-things-happen-to-good-experiments/
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration , NASA, is famous for studying stars and planets and galaxies in outer space. But did you know it also has excellent programs that study planet Earth? The GLOBE Program is one of these programs. And over the past few years, I have been lucky enough to be a part of The Earth Observing System . More specifically, I work on an experiment called HIRDLS ...
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GLOBE Science Topics:
SCIENTIST SKILLS
This week’s blog comes to us from Mrs. Wafa Mubarek Bin Dayna, the Country Coordinator for the Kingdom of Bahrain. In this post she explains a new collaborative project occurring in the Kingdom of Bahrain exploring migratory birds throughout the country. This project was introduced in the 2011-2012 academic year and will continue for the three academic years following.
In the Kingdom of Bahrain, over 290 species of birds have been observed, the majority being passing migrants. Monitoring migratory birds isn’t always easy, as many migratory birds fly at a great ...
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Investigation Areas:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
This week’s post is a continuation from last week , where our guest blogger, Vera Gekov, explored GLOBE and connected it to environmental stewardship.
As part of my Master’s Applied Research Project, I collected stories as richly diverse as the international GLOBE community itself from the question: “What does stewardship mean to you?” Answers ranged from “ taking care of Earth and its natural resources for the benefit of all creatures,” to “managing environmental resources,” and “developing a global consciousness and responsible behavior towards nature.”
What impressed ...
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Blog originally posted on The GLOBE Scientists' Blog: http://blog.globe.gov/sciblog/2013/05/29/the-connection-of-science-and-stewardship-part-i-motivation-and-initial-questions/
This week we have a guest blogger, Vera Gekov. Vera is a recent graduate of the Environmental Leadership program at Naropa University in Boulder, CO, USA. She was drawn to GLOBE because of the program’s commitment of increasing environmental literacy in youth. She completed her Applied Leadership Project by connecting with GLOBE teachers and country coordinators to understand ...
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Blog originally posted on The GLOBE Scientists' Blog: http://blog.globe.gov/sciblog/2013/05/22/through-the-eyes-of-a-student-nsta-2013/
This week’s guest blogger is Savona O’Brien, a senior at Paw Paw High School, located in rural West Virginia, USA. Savona has been participating in the GLOBE program for two years, and feels it’s a wonderful program that more students, teachers, and schools should participate in. Through her participation in GLOBE and GLOBE’s From Learning to Research project, Savona was given the opportunity to attend the National Science Teacher’s ...
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Blog originally posted on The GLOBE Scientists' Blog: http://blog.globe.gov/sciblog/2013/05/15/the-community-cloud-atlas/
During our time in the Atmospheric Science doctoral program at Colorado State University (CSU), we would take breaks from frustrating programming efforts and run upstairs to the roof of the building to take pictures of clouds. We would identify them by name, describe the conditions in which they were forming, and head back inside to see if we could put them within the context of the radar and satellite imagery. As our collection continued to grow, we ...
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Investigation Areas:
ATMOSPHERE
CLOUDS
Blog originally posted on The GLOBE Scientists' Blog: http://blog.globe.gov/sciblog/2013/05/08/from-the-desk-of-a-globe-teacher-part-4-participating-in-a-globe-virtual-student-conference/
This week we have a guest blogger, Ms. Marcy Burns. Ms. Burns is a fifth grade teacher at Main Street Intermediate School in Norwalk, Ohio. As a participant of phase one of the Learning2Research Project, her students were able to submit a project and participate in the first virtual conference and she feels The GLOBE Program has been a great tool for engaging her students ...
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GENERAL SCIENCE
Blog originally posted on The GLOBE Scientists' Blog: http://blog.globe.gov/sciblog/2013/05/01/from-the-desk-of-a-globe-teacher-part-3-attending-a-national-conference/
This week we have a guest blogger, Mr. Steven Frantz from Roswell-Kent Middle School in Akron, Ohio. Mr. Frantz is a GLOBE teacher and is also a participant in GLOBE From Learning To Research Project. As a part of the project, he had the opportunity to attend the 2013 National Science Teacher Association Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. He presents his perspective on the meeting as a first time attendee. ...
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My second student project can be viewed at http://youtu.be/MWELr4fr35U
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The first of my students' L2R project videos can be found at http://youtu.be/RNdr7LT6Ask
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Blog originally posted on the GLOBE Scientists' Blog: http://blog.globe.gov/sciblog/2013/04/24/globes-2013-celebration-of-earth-day-student-connection-of-weather-to-climate/
To celebrate GLOBE ’s 18 th birthday on Earth Day 2013, students across the world were asked to demonstrate how participating in GLOBE has enabled or inspired them to improve the environment of their home, school or local community. We received over 80 entries into the competition, representing each of GLOBE’s six regions. A panel of judges scored each video based upon a provided rubric . The overall ...
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Blog originally posted on The GLOBE Scientists' Blog: http://blog.globe.gov/sciblog/2013/04/17/exploring-the-intertropical-convergence-zone/
This week we have a guest post from Janis Steele, PhD and Brooks McCutchen, PhD. They own and operate Berkshire Sweet Gold Maple and Marine, an agroforestry and ocean-going enterprise concerned with sustainable livelihoods and the preservation of wild and perennial ecosystems, from ridge-to-reef. Along with their three boys, Connor, Rowan and Gavin, they spend half of each year running their farm in the Berkshires in Western ...
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Our sampling site
Monocacy Creek - flows through Colonial, Moravian village and empties into the Lehigh River by the repurposed Bethlehem Steel Mill (entertainment center), then into the Delaware River which joins the Atlantic Ocean.
Background
Bridge traverses the creek at South end of village
Runoff washes road salts from brine treatment into creek
Every Spring the creek is stocked with fish
Original Scope of GLOBE project – Summer, 2012
Determine water quality of the creek flowing through the village impacted by the ...
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Curriculum:
ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION
GLOBE Science Topics:
BACKYARD SCIENCE
Investigation Areas:
HYDROSPHERE
Learning Activities:
HYDROLOGY
Primary Audience:
TEACHERS
STUDENTS
SCIENTISTS
Blog originally posted on The GLOBE Scientists' Blog: http://blog.globe.gov/sciblog/?p=1654
This week we are continuing our Full Length Mississippi series with Mike Link and his wife Kate Crowley. Mike is the retired founding director of The Audubon Center of the North Woods in Minnesota, an author of 24 books, a published researcher (vernal ponds and ornithology), a college instructor at Hamline University, and a consultant to non-profits.
When we decided that our effort to understand fresh water systems would move from Lake Superior to ...
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Blog originally posted on the GLOBE Scientists' Blog: blog.globe.gov/sciblog/2013/04/03/the-most-important-step-in-science-communicating-your-results/
I remember in high school that I liked science and math much more than my grammar and literature classes. I recall thinking that if I pursued a career in science, I wouldn’t have to worry about reading and writing and I could really focus on the things I most enjoyed. Boy was I wrong, and quite ignorant to boot! In my scientific career, I read and write all of the time, and have come to really value and ...
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