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Stipend Opportunity
Participate in the Surface Temperature Field Campaign Dec 1 - Dec 31 and receive a $50 stipend!
Field campaigns are focused data collection events, coordinated in partnership with a scientist or agency, seeking very specific kinds of data.
Every educator who enters a surface temperature data set* by Dec 31, 2016 will receive a $50 stipend. Surface temperature is a simple protocol to do. You still have time to request funds from a mini-grant and order the infrared thermometers if you act soon!
For more information about the Surface ...
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I came across this information this afternoon, and thought I would share it with everyone. Here are some of the impacts of the 2015-2016 El Nino's impact on some parts of Brazil and Columbia.
We would love to hear from any of you as to how the El Nino impacted you in your area! Just add a comment below.
"Brazil is undergoing its most severe drought in 35 years and heavily populated regions, particularly the country's southeast, depend on local reservoirs and aquifers which are not being replenished due to the drought. ( Thomson Reuters Foundation, 30 Oct 2015 ...
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Anne Lewis inspired me to dig though my archive and highlight some of the resources and links that I have sent along to various members of the GLOBE community. I compiled many of them here. It makes for a very link-heavy blog post but perhaps there are some nuggets in here for you.
Representing GLOBE at Workshops and Meetings?
If you are attending a conference or meeting and referencing GLOBE, let us know here .
NGSS Visually
Did anyone else see this article? http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2014/08/science_teacher_puts_standards.html?cmp=ENL-TU-NEWS3 . A ...
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Hey there all your fabulous GLOBE Teachers and Scientists!!!!
We want one slide from you - and here is the template ready to go!- to share either how you are already using collaboration as a tool or how you would like to use this tool in the future! It is super easy- here are the directions .
What better way to show your students that they are a valuable part of the GLOBE Community than by sharing a slide with us which we will use during our next webinar on November 15th ?
Our theme will be on " Collaboration " and we will have three GLOBE teachers- Audra ...
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In my few years as a GLOBE partner I've come to realize that GLOBE is a massive organization that sometimes feels to me like it borders on an organism. Every time I look, there is growth, something new and exciting to take note of. A data quality challenge . Mission Earth . GLOBE branded Lands' End Apparel .
Keeping up is a challenge.
I have decided to go on the offensive and to call upon one of the five Superpowers of the Internet: Archiving. Rather than rely on only email to stay in the loop, I am using the GLOBE ecosystem.
To wit:
I regularly check ...
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PARTNERS
Hello SD GLOBE!
You have a few days remaining to participate in October's Earth Science Challenge. Collect and report data twice during the month of October and you will receive a $100 stipend.
Congratulations so far to Julie Olson and Lisa Bahe for completing the challenge! Lisa wrote:
We were able to get out and get a site picked.... Kids did much better the second day and it went a lot quicker the second time. We will hopefully try to collect data 2-3 times per month for class. We were able to do cloud cover, air temperature and surface ...
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TEACHERS
Hello SD GLOBE!
Now that you have gotten past the mad rush of the start of school, I hope you take a deep breath and think about how to implement GLOBE in your school.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
We are offering two professional development opportunities this fall: Online GLOBE Practicum and STEM Quick Stops.
The Online GLOBE Practicum is your opportunity to put GLOBE into practice. You can earn credit AND a stipend (SD teachers only). We are having a Google Hangout for Practicum participants and potential participants on Tuesday, October 4 at 8:30PM ...
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United States Regional Student Research Symposia (SRS)
Watch this space, at the top of every blog, for news on the NSF-funded U.S. Regional SRS as dates and locations roll in! If you are a teacher and participated last year, please contact me at usglobecc@gmail.com about the opportunity to blog about the experience!
Geographic Area
Location
Date
Southeast
Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama
April 27-29, 2017
Midwest
Purdue University, Indiana
May 19-20, 2017
Southwest
Campus Village, ...
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Apparently the wind belts around the equator flip about once every two years. This past year, NASA found that the flip occurred much earlier than it expected. Watch the short video at this url to learn more about this phenomena and how it might be related to the 2015-16 El Nino event.
http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-explain-unexpected-atmosphere-flip-wind-direction-2016-9?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=referral
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April 2015: The why
“Jen, create a list of ideas for making GLOBE more visible in the United States that will engage GLOBE Partnerships, teachers, and students nationally.”
All right. I can do that.
My top ten ideas:
Number Ten - The Science Fairs. The last one on the list. My least favorite.
Of course everyone picks that one to develop. Of course.
Flashback to my pre-GLOBE years: My failure
Coming from an undergraduate degree in zoology with a dream to be an excellent teacher, I wanted science class to be about research. That is what students should be doing in ...
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I just came across a fascinating article titled " A Tale of Fire and Water- A NASA Scientist's Quest to Understand Rain in Africa ". You can see this article at this link:http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/IchokuRain/. You learn the story of a NASA scientist who grew up in southern Nigeria as a poor refugee child whose family was forced to flee their home because of a civil war that was raging in 1968. Not only is his story inspiring, but the use of various satellite data to explain Dr. Ichoku's research is really fascinating!
The article covers many decades of changing ...
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I just came across an article that discusses the impact of the 2015-2016 El Nino on landslides in California. You can read it at this link: http://landslides.usgs.gov/monitoring/2015elnino/ncal.php.
How would you think that the El Nino impacted the incidence of landslides in that region? Historically it is the large winter storms that cause the devastating landslides in the Francisco area. What do you think causes landslides to occur anyway?
If you look at this website, you will learn about the different types of landslides and see records about how the El Nino conditions ...
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I just read a fascinating article from National Geographic that was published yesterday entitled "How La Nina Could Affect the Spread of Zika": http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/will-la-nina-affect-the-spread-of-zika-/.
Before you read the article, stop and consider how the temperature and precipitation patterns in your local region changed as a result of the El Nino. In my area, the greater Wash., D.C. metropolitan area, we had warmer temperatures and more precipitation. Then consider how the change in weather patterns might impact mosquitos- which in my case would mean more ...
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If you clicked on a link to this page due to some intriguing headline, I hope you will not be too disappointed. A momentary lapse in judgement inspired me to ask the GLOBE Implementation Office (GIO) for a Blog tab and now that it is here; it’s been waiting for some content.
My intent was to fill this with guest bloggers, U.S. teachers in particular, writing about how they are implementing GLOBE in their classrooms. There weren’t any volunteers. [sad face]
Until I can entice a couple of GLOBE teachers, you get me, Jen Bourgeault. I have had the pleasure and honor of being the U.S. ...
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The third and fourth grade students whom I work with at Cedar Grove ES asked me what will happen once the El Nino conditions begin to subside, and I admitted that I really wasn't sure. So, we used the internet and looked it up! We found a website that answered our question! Discovery News has a great article with videos and graphics at http://news.discovery.com/earth/weather-extreme-events/will-la-nina-follow-one-of-the-strongest-ever-el-ninos-160410.htm .
This article suggests that this strong El Nino season may be followed by a La Nina event. Like all good ...
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Dorian Janney, GLOBE Scientist Mentor Blog for El Nino Field Campaign
I have had the pleasure of working with two groups of elementary school students this year as their GLOBE mentor. They attend Cedar Grove Elementary School in Clarksburg, MD. My primary goal was to install an instrument box with a rain gauge and a multi-day thermometer at their school, and to help them collect and report data to GLOBE. Here they are collecting data:
As we observed the weather patterns, they began to ask what the difference was between weather and climate. I gave ...
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Why should we study mosquitos in our area?
By Mullica Jaroensutasinee, Krisanadej Jaroensutasinee, Walailak University
Rebecca Boger, Brooklyn College and Elena Sparrow, UAF
Before we try to answer this, we should ask ourselves about how much do we know about them? For example, how many mosquito species present in our area? Would they carry some diseases? Where are their main breeding sites? Would they prefer to bite kids than adults and elderly? What time of year? What time of day would they most active (biting us)?
Let us give you some example on mosquitos that ...
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Thai Coral Reef and Climate Change
Assoc. Prof. Krisanadej Jaroensutasinee, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mullica Jaroensutasinee, Centre of Excellence for Ecoinformatics, Walailak University, Thailand
Everybody loves to spend their vacation snorkling or diving, seeing coral reef, reef fish and other marine creature. Would it be very sad when we go diving and see lots of dead corals? Of course, we would. What can we do to prevent this to happen? How can we and our students involve in some coral conservation? It is everyone responsibility to help improve our world to be a better place to live ...
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The Surface Temperature Field Campaign has come to a close, but please feel free to keep taking surface temperature observations. I know that many of you and your students are still taking observations and you are planning your projects to present at science fairs as well as the GLOBE regional science fairs.
The Surface Temperature field campaign ran through the first day of winter. In the Northern Hemisphere, the official first day of winter is December 22 this year and in the Southern Hemisphere, it was the first day of summer . The start of the seasons are actually defined in ...
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SURFACE TEMPERATURE
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This second week of the surface temperature field campaign has seem probably the warmest temperatures that we have seen in any field campaign in the eastern United States. I was at Ida Middle School in Michigan yesterday and the kids were outside in short sleeve shirts. The student was a little cold but it wasn’t terrible. Some years there is 200 mm of snow on the ground.
We have had 26 schools, 8 countries and 9 US states enter 414 observations. Roswell-Kent Middle School is leading the pack with 83 observations. Main Street School in Ohio and Crestwood High School in Michigan are ...
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