News - Boston University School of Education

The TerraROVER Senior Design Team, in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Boston University, successfully completed their Capstone Design project. The members of the team, Dana Bulakh, Jingshuo Li, Ani Pulake, Christian Urteaga, Marcus Wachira, collaborated with Prof Caleb Farny (Boston University, GLOBE Mission EARTH), Geoffrey Bland (NASA Goddard, AREN Project), and Lisa Ogiemwonyi (Wayne RESA, AREN Project), to continue development of the AREN TerraROVER vehicle and the primary goal of improving the vehicle frame and integrating thermal imaging and wind speed sensing to the vehicle's sensor package. The team successfully integrated these new aspects to the vehicle and held a session with the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard after school program, during which a group of high school students tested its assembly and operation.  >>

The AquaROVER Senior Design Team, in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Boston University, successfully completed their Capstone Design project. The members of the team, Fahim Rabbi, Lorenzo Moriche Koukouchkina, Natalie Menon, Samuel Haley, and Weinuo Lin, collaborated with Prof Caleb Farny (Boston University, GLOBE Mission EARTH), Geoffrey Bland (NASA Goddard, AREN Project), and Lisa Ogiemwonyi (Wayne RESA, AREN Project), to continue development of the AREN AquaROVER vehicle and the primary goal of adding wind propulsion to the vehicle. The team designed, built, and tested a new sail, keel, elevator, and rudder mechanism.  >>

On 3 June, GLOBE was joined by researchers from UCAR's Center for Ocean Leadership to discuss the role of the ocean in the global climate, current research into ocean-climate connections, and how GLOBE data supports understanding more about the world's oceans.  >>

Following the announcement from GLOBE federal sponsors on the outcome of the GIO cooperative agreement competition on 17 April, 2024, GPO, UCAR GIO, the new GIO team from both the Education Development Center (EDC) and The City University of New York (CUNY), GLOBE Data and Information System (DIS), the GLOBE Observer team, and GLOBE federal co-sponsors have all been hard at work to plan and execute the GIO transition. The overarching goal of the transition activities is for the new GIO team (EDC and CUNY) to understand how various GIO functional groups have operated over the years. This ensures necessary continuity and knowledge transfer to facilitate EDC and CUNY’s planning of the programmatic support they will provide for GLOBE’s worldwide community given their vision.  >>

At the end of May the GLOBE Clouds team met a significant milestone. They matched 1 million GLOBE clouds observations to geostationary satellite data! You can help the team get to 2 million by downloading the GLOBE Observer app and observing the clouds near you. Learn more about the NASA GLOBE Cloud protocol and how researchers are matching GLOBE cloud observations with satellite data to create a deeper understanding of clouds.  >>

During the GES, topics such as Gen AI, energy, sustainability, climate change, eLearning, and many more were discussed near Killarney, Ireland's "Lake of Learning."  >>

Early bird registration is open now until 14 June!  >>

New Learning Activities Tool and eTraining for Protocols available now!  >>

GLOBE will be joined by researchers from UCAR's Center for Ocean Leadership to discuss the role of the ocean in the global climate, current research into ocean-climate connections, and how GLOBE data supports understanding more about the world's oceans.  >>

Join us as Peder Nelson highlights several lessons and online data that will help educators assist students in bridging the gap between the ground-based GLOBE measurements and the satellite data.  >>