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It is here! The Urban Heat Island Effect/Surface Temperature Campaign for 2018-2019 will start October 1. I am so excited to be kicking off a new campaign. There are so many more schools and students participating that it is very exciting.
The Urban Heat Island is a very current and timely research topic to study. This past summer there were heat waves in Japan, the United Kingdom and Europe as well as parts of the United States. Heat waves are now the natural disasters causing the most deaths in the United States. Urban Heat Island Effect makes cities even warmer than surrounding ...
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Field Campaigns:
SURFACE TEMPERATURE
Clouds are amazing to observe and always seem to capture the attention of all, from little ones to the young at heart. The GLOBE Clouds team would like to help all of those that would be interested in doing research with clouds. A good research question is always tricky so here are some tips and ideas to get you started!
What is a good research question?
It is not always easy to come up with a research question, but GLOBE has a good checklist to help you out! You can even assign points and see how many points does your question total as a good research question. A ...
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Curriculum:
STEM
EDUCATION RESEARCH
SCIENCE AND MATH
Event Topics:
CAMPAIGNS AND PROJECTS (IOPS, ETC)
SCIENCE SYMPOSIA AND FAIRS
GLOBE Science Topics:
SCIENTIST SKILLS
GLOBE PROTOCOLS
GENERAL SCIENCE
DATA INCLUDED
BACKYARD SCIENCE
CLIMATE
Investigation Areas:
CLOUDS
Learning Activities:
ATMOSPHERE AND CLIMATE
News Topics:
VIRTUAL SCIENCE FAIR
Primary Audience:
TEACHERS
TRAINERS
STUDENTS
PARTNERS
ALUMNI
Teacher's Guide:
GRADE LEVELS
INVESTIGATION AREA DOCUMENTS
After a couple days with very high heat indexes for north central Ohio [which resulted in school being closed on Wednesday], the temperatures dropped to a level that allowed my students in Citizen Science Research to head out to two of our atmospheric sites. I walked them through the site definition on one site, leaving the 2nd site for them to complete next week. They also worked through the cloud protocol in small teams and then compared observations. With the images included on the cloud data sheet, they all felt comfortable with this protocol. They also ...
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Field Campaigns:
SURFACE TEMPERATURE
The ICESat-2 Satellite will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, California on Saturday, September 15, 2016. At this time, the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign will officially begin.
If you happen to find yourself in Lompoc, California for the launch, please take a look at this Explore Lompoc web site. It provides some great information about all the ICESat-2 launch activities that will be happening. We also have an ICESat-2 Launch Outreach page that showcases launch information and a launch party kit.
The launch of the ICESat-2 satellite will ...
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Investigation Areas:
PRECIPITATION
CARBON CYCLE
AIR TEMPERATURE
SURFACE TEMPERATURE
SOIL TEMPERATURE
BIOSPHERE
BIOMETRY (INCLUDING TREE HEIGHT)
LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION
GREEN-UP / GREEN-DOWN
Arrived at school this morning to find that the surface temp gun and kestrel I ordered from Amazon were waiting for me in my mailbox. Looking forward to opening the box of items I ordered from Forestry Suppliers - cloud charts and leaf color charts. Last week I had my students do an intro activity on collecting data in the field - they completed a survey of plant populations in our school courtyards using transects and grids.
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In GLOBE, there are two major perspectives on the global environment – the spheres and the Earth system. The Teacher’s Guide and the new sphere pages build on the approach that examines Earth as the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and pedosphere. The study of Earth System Science focuses on the cycles that connect the spheres – the Energy, Water, and Biogeochemical.
The Honor Roll provides recognition of those who report in depth in one area or another. There are three honor rolls recognizing Atmosphere measurement reporting; one for Hydrosphere;, and two each for Biosphere and ...
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Curriculum:
SCIENCE AND MATH
Field Campaigns:
EL NIÑO
SMAP
SURFACE TEMPERATURE
GPM
CARBON CYCLE
GLOBE Science Topics:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE
A little back story about this post: I was talking to an educator about the different options to enter GLOBE data including emailing it. For some reason the instruction file on emailing data was in HTML. I copied and pasted the HTML file into my blog source so it would be more readable. Below are the instructions for emailing data entry. As far as I know, the information is still current.
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Email Data Entry Formats for GLOBE
GLOBE Email Data Entry
Note: Last updated February, 2014
INDEX
Message Basics (//AA and //ZZ) ...
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From June to August, Center for Education and Development (CED) colorable with Vietnam National Space Center (VNSC) to deployment new project "GLOBE Zika Education and Prevention". The GLOBE Zika Education and Prevention project will be pushing the edge of citizen science impact, aiming to enlist thousands of students, teachers, and community leaders to collect data on mosquitoes for a global mapping project. This project has an ambitious target of 100,000 data submissions contributed by the end of 2019. Global data collection on this scale will provide the information needed ...
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Curriculum:
STEM
Event Topics:
WORKSHOPS
GLOBE Science Topics:
GLOBE PROTOCOLS
Learning Activities:
HYDROLOGY
Teacher's Guide:
PROTOCOL INSTRUCTIONS
The UND GLOBE 2018 Summer Training Workshop was scheduled for 30-31 July 2018. Unfortunately the enrollment was not high enough so it was cancelled. Attached is the postcard we used to advertise our GLOBE Workshop at our local Science Teacher's Association Conference.
Next year, we plan to obtain a table at the conference and offer Elementary GLOBE books/binders for sale (at cost) in order to better advertise GLOBE and hopefully have more teachers want to attend our workshop.
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By Mrs. Berthy Buah - Country Coordinator GLOBE Ghana
Greater Accra Regional STMIE Coordinator
The world Mosquito Day which is celebrated annually in honouring the scientist who
first discovered that the female Anopheles mosquito transmit malaria in 1987-Sir Ronald Ross is being
used to educate people ...
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Greetings from NASA and the ICESat-2 Satellite Mission,
As you may know, the NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) will launch from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on September 15, 2018. ICESat-2 will be a satellite that will use an on-board laser system to measure the height of Earth’s ice, trees, oceans, geographic features, among others.
For several days before the launch, the ICESat-2 Outreach Team will be conducting many pre-launch activities, near the launch site, that showcase the ICESat-2 Mission. One of these events, in ...
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Event Topics:
WORKSHOPS
GLOBE Science Topics:
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE
GLOBE PROTOCOLS
MEETINGS/CONFERENCES
GLOBE Working Groups:
TECHNOLOGY WORKING GROUP
EVALUATION WORKING GROUP
SCIENCE WORKING GROUP
EDUCATION WORKING GROUP
Investigation Areas:
BIOSPHERE
News Topics:
TRAINING
Primary Audience:
TRAINERS
TEACHERS
STUDENTS
PARTNERS
SCIENTISTS
ALUMNI
COUNTRY COORDINATORS
Hello, GLOBE Family!
You may be familiar with my dichotomous cloud key ! I am a meteorologist and educator who is interested in better understanding students ideas of weather and climate related topics.
Would you help me launch an international research study to compare students' understanding around the WORLD and around different climate zones? How well can our students differentiate between WEATHER and CLIMATE and how well do they understand the complex ideas of CLIMATE CHANGE.
Would you be willing to have your students take 20 minutes to complete ...
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GLOBE Science Topics:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE
GENERAL SCIENCE
CLIMATE CHANGE
CLIMATE
Investigation Areas:
ATMOSPHERE
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
HYDROSPHERE
BIOSPHERE
Learning Activities:
ATMOSPHERE AND CLIMATE
Primary Audience:
TRAINERS
TEACHERS
STUDENTS
PARTNERS
SCIENTISTS
ALUMNI
COUNTRY COORDINATORS
KHÓA TẬP HUẤN MUỖI - HỢP PHẦN THUỘC CHƯƠNG TRÌNH GLOBE
Giới thiệu chương trình GLOBE và khóa tập huấn Muỗi trên thế giới và Việt Nam
Trong khuôn khổ hợp tác giữa Viện Hàn lâm Khoa học và Công nghệ Việt Nam (VAST) và Cơ quan Hàng không và Vũ trụ Hoa Kỳ (NASA), kể từ năm 2016, Trung tâm Vũ trụ Việt Nam (VNSC) thuộc VAST đã trở thành cơ quan đại diện Việt Nam tham gia Chương trình GLOBE (Chương trình học tập và quan sát toàn cầu đem lại lợi ích cho môi trường) do NASA tổ chức. Theo đó, VNSC cam kết đồng hành cùng NASA và các nước trên thế giới thực hiện chương ...
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Curriculum:
STEM
EDUCATION RESEARCH
SCIENCE AND MATH
TECHNOLOGY
Event Topics:
GLOBE LEARNING EXPEDITIONS
GLOBE Science Topics:
GLOBE PROTOCOLS
News Topics:
TRAINING
Primary Audience:
TEACHERS
TRAINERS
STUDENTS
SCIENTISTS
Teacher's Guide:
IN CLASS ACTIVITY (1 OR MORE PERIODS)
TOOL KIT
PROTOCOL INSTRUCTIONS
My NASA Langley Summer Experience
Wow, what an experience! This summer, I was selected among a few talented educators to serve as an intern for the Science Directorate at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Upon entering Langley, I was consumed with excitement and apprehension of what would be expected of me as an intern. The feelings of uncertainty were subsided as I conversed with my NASA mentor, Tina Hart, regarding what I aspired to learn and experience. As a science educator and GLOBE teacher, I felt compelled to learn more about GLOBE ...
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Wow....what an experience the 2018 GLOBE Learning Expedition (GLE) in Killarney was! GLOBE meetings are always intense and GLEs are even more so. Such was the case at my first GLE in India in 2014 and 2018 in Ireland proved no exception. However, this particular GLE was very special to me on many levels. This was the second GLE that I attended and marked over 5 years in my time as director of the GLOBE Office at UCAR. However, and more important, the location was my home town, and the Killarney National Park that was the backdrop for the GLE and that we used ...
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I've been working with a fantastic group from New Hampshire to provide professional development for educators for years. This year, we've spent a considerable amount of time on the pedosphere, from wetland soils to forest and grassland soils. We've talked about why trees go where they do and all the critters, both macro and micro, that spend time in soil. I've listed some of my favorite resources below but please add your own and let's grow the list:
NRCS posters, guides, lesson plans and games
Training materials from NRCS
Traveling Soil Tent: ...
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Curriculum:
SCIENCE AND MATH
Event Topics:
WORKSHOPS
GLOBE Science Topics:
SCIENTIST SKILLS
GLOBE PROTOCOLS
Investigation Areas:
PEDOSPHERE (SOIL)
News Topics:
TRAINING
Primary Audience:
TRAINERS
TEACHERS
STUDENTS
PARTNERS
COUNTRY COORDINATORS
As you may know, the NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) will launch on September 15, 2018 from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, USA. The ICESat-2 satellite will use an on-board laser altimeter system to measure the height of Earth. Measurements of ice sheets, sea ice, bodies of water, mountains are all part of what ICESat-2 will measure.
For our collaboration with The GLOBE Program, we want to focus on one exciting variable that the ICESat-2 satellite will measure, TREE HEIGHT! GLOBE has several ways to measure tree height. You can find them ...
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GLOBE Working Groups:
TECHNOLOGY WORKING GROUP
EVALUATION WORKING GROUP
SCIENCE WORKING GROUP
EDUCATION WORKING GROUP
Investigation Areas:
BIOSPHERE
Learning Activities:
ATMOSPHERE AND CLIMATE
News Topics:
IOPS
Primary Audience:
TRAINERS
TEACHERS
STUDENTS
PARTNERS
SCIENTISTS
ALUMNI
COUNTRY COORDINATORS
The South Dakota Discovery Center is issuing a call for water transparency data from lakes, streams, rivers, ponds in South Dakota using a turbidity (or transparency) tube, often referred to as a t-tube since both transparency and turbidity start with the letter t.
The t-tube is a simple instrument. It is a tall, transparent tube of at least 120 centimeters that is marked off in centimeters on the side. On the bottom is a quadrant pattern of alternating black and white sections. You can measure the clarity of the water by measuring the depth of the water in the ...
The GLOBE Observer app (available for iPhones and Android devices) is a new, step-by-step way to submit cloud observations to NASA. Use your GLOBE sign-in information to sync your observations with your GLOBE data entry.
Here are some simple tips and tricks on how to better identify clouds while using the app. Your latitude, longitude, and time of day with be filled in automatically by the app!
1. What does your sky look like?
Is your sky completely clear with no contrails? Are there clouds or is the sky obscured that it makes it difficult to make any ...
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GLOBE Science Topics:
BACKYARD SCIENCE
Investigation Areas:
CLOUDS
Learning Activities:
OBSERVING, DESCRIBING, AND IDENTIFYING CLOUDS
OBSERVING VISIBILITY AND SKY COLOR
ESTIMATING CLOUD COVER
Teacher's Guide:
UPPER PRIMARY: 3-5
SECONDARY: 9-12
MIDDLE: 6-8
LOWER PRIMARY: K-2
Every year, I offer a field based professional learning opportunity (PLO) for educators. This year's PLO was Exploring Badlands National Park through Science and Storytelling held June 18-21 in South Dakota. Nine educators spent one day in class and three days and two nights in Badlands National Park doing hydrology field studies using GLOBE protocols (water temperature, water clarity, conductivity and pH) in addition to other opportunities.
As part of my own professional learning, I set myself a challenge of trying to tell the story of the field studies in ways other than ...
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Event Topics:
WORKSHOPS
GLOBE Science Topics:
GLOBE PROTOCOLS
Teacher's Guide:
PROTOCOL INSTRUCTIONS
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