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Whenever you submit a cloud observations, the GLOBE Clouds team at NASA Langley Research Center looks for satellites that were over your area at about the same time. The team then gathers the information from these satellites and compares them to your own observations. The result is a satellite match table that you receive through an email!    The table allows you to compare what you saw and what the satellite noted. You also have the actual satellite image at the bottom of the table! A new "How to Read a Satellite Match"  page is available for you to learn ...

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Posted in: Curriculum: EDUCATION RESEARCH   SCIENCE AND MATH   Event Topics: SCIENCE SYMPOSIA AND FAIRS   GLOBE Science Topics: SCIENTIST SKILLS   GLOBE PROTOCOLS   GENERAL SCIENCE   Investigation Areas: ATMOSPHERE   Learning Activities: ATMOSPHERE AND CLIMATE   News Topics: VIRTUAL SCIENCE FAIR   Primary Audience: TRAINERS   TEACHERS   STUDENTS   PARTNERS   SCIENTISTS   COUNTRY COORDINATORS  
By Peter Dorofy, posted Aug 29, 2018 2:20:56 PM

I just updated HoloGLOBE to v1.0.2. For those of you new to this app, HoloGLOBE brings NASA and NOAA visualizations of the Earth to the palm of your hand through augmented reality (AR). You can read more about the app here: http://www.palmyracove.org/InstituteforEarthObservations/HoloGLOBE.aspx In this latest release, I have added play/pause functionality to the MyNASAData module. The MyNASAData is essentially an augmented reality version of GLOBE's Earth System Poster. In addition the new ICESat-2 module has been added. The ICESat-2 module was built by Emme Wiederhold, a ...

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Posted in: Curriculum: STEM   ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION   EDUCATION RESEARCH   LANGUAGE CULTURE AND ARTS   SCIENCE AND MATH   TECHNOLOGY   Event Topics: CAMPAIGNS AND PROJECTS (IOPS, ETC)   GLOBE LEARNING EXPEDITIONS   OTHER   SCIENCE SYMPOSIA AND FAIRS   MEETINGS   WORKSHOPS   COMPETITIONS   Field Campaigns: SCRC - PHASE 2   SCRC   FLEXE   CARBON CYCLE   WATERSHEDS   SEASONS AND BIOMES   SCUBANAUTS   EL NIÑO   GGIC   SCRC - PHASE 1   SMAP   SURFACE TEMPERATURE   GPM   GLOBE Science Topics: EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE   GENERAL SCIENCE   GENERAL SCIENCE @ES   CLIMATE CHANGE   DATA INCLUDED   BACKYARD SCIENCE   MEETINGS/CONFERENCES   CLIMATE   SCIENTIST SKILLS   EARTH AS A SYSTEM   GLOBE PROTOCOLS   GLOBE Working Groups: EVALUATION WORKING GROUP   SCIENCE WORKING GROUP   EDUCATION WORKING GROUP   TECHNOLOGY WORKING GROUP   Investigation Areas: BIOSPHERE   ATMOSPHERE   EARTH AS A SYSTEM   HYDROSPHERE   PEDOSPHERE (SOIL)   Learning Activities: EARTH AS A SYSTEM   ATMOSPHERE AND CLIMATE   LAND COVER/BIOLOGY   HYDROLOGY   SOIL   News Topics: VIRTUAL SCIENCE FAIR   IOPS   REGIONS   CALENDAR   SCRC RESEARCH   TRAINING   COMPETITIONS   MEETINGS   VIDEO   WEB MAINTENANCE / ENHANCEMENTS   Primary Audience: PARTNERS   SCIENTISTS   ALUMNI   COUNTRY COORDINATORS   TRAINERS   TEACHERS   STUDENTS   Teacher's Guide: GRADE LEVELS   DOCUMENT TYPES   TIME REQUIREMENTS   LANGUAGES   STANDARDS REQUIREMENTS   INVESTIGATION AREA DOCUMENTS  

Bill Smith, left, along with Kris Bedka. The NASA GLOBE Clouds team is excited to share with you this recent news article about two NASA scientists that help match your observations with satellite data - Bill Smith and Kris Bedka. They, along with Louis Nguyen lead SatCORPS, at team at NASA Langley Research Center that use expertise in clouds to make better weather predictions.  Read more about their work at  https://www.nasa.gov/feature/langley/how-cloud-data-is-improving-weather-forecasts    

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Posted in: Curriculum: STEM   SCIENCE AND MATH   TECHNOLOGY   Event Topics: OTHER   GLOBE Science Topics: EARTH AS A SYSTEM   SCIENTIST SKILLS   GENERAL SCIENCE   GLOBE PROTOCOLS   CLIMATE   Investigation Areas: ATMOSPHERE   Primary Audience: TRAINERS   TEACHERS   STUDENTS   PARTNERS   SCIENTISTS   ALUMNI   COUNTRY COORDINATORS  

A fourth grade student from Public School 122 (Queens, NY), recently visited NASA Langley for a week. During his visit, he studied the GLOBE Aerosol Protocol. He went outside the Atmospheric Sciences building and collected aerosol data using a Calitoo sun photometer, which measures Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) at three wavelengths: 465nm (blue), 540nm (green) and 619nm (red). After downloading the data measured with the Calitoo to his laptop, the student learned how to access AERONET data. The AERONET ( AE rosol RO botic NET work) project is a federation of ground-based remote ...

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Posted in: Curriculum: STEM   EDUCATION RESEARCH   SCIENCE AND MATH   Event Topics: CAMPAIGNS AND PROJECTS (IOPS, ETC)   SCIENCE SYMPOSIA AND FAIRS   GLOBE Science Topics: GLOBE PROTOCOLS   GENERAL SCIENCE   GLOBE Working Groups: SCIENCE WORKING GROUP   Investigation Areas: ATMOSPHERE   AEROSOLS   News Topics: VIRTUAL SCIENCE FAIR   Primary Audience: TEACHERS   STUDENTS   PARTNERS  

Mr. Jeff Bouwman The NASA GLOBE Clouds team is excited to highlight Mr. Jeff Bouwman, a 6th and 7th grade teacher at  Shumate Middle School  ( Gibraltar School District ) in Gibraltar, MI. Mr. Bouwman was one of the top 10 GLOBE Cloud observers for 2017 and we are very excited for the research his students are doing with the data.    We invite you to read his most recent post -   "It's Cool to Have Your Head in the Clouds" - and read the research his students are doing with 2-years of cloud observations!    If you would ...

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Posted in: Curriculum: STEM   EDUCATION RESEARCH   SCIENCE AND MATH   TECHNOLOGY   Event Topics: SCIENCE SYMPOSIA AND FAIRS   GLOBE Science Topics: SCIENTIST SKILLS   GLOBE PROTOCOLS   GENERAL SCIENCE   BACKYARD SCIENCE   Investigation Areas: ATMOSPHERE   CLOUDS   Learning Activities: ATMOSPHERE AND CLIMATE   News Topics: VIRTUAL SCIENCE FAIR   COMPETITIONS   Primary Audience: TRAINERS   TEACHERS   STUDENTS   SCIENTISTS   Teacher's Guide: GRADE LEVELS   INVESTIGATION AREA DOCUMENTS  

NASA GLOBE Clouds: Spring Cloud Observations Data Challenge Audience : Students and teachers all grade levels, informal educators, and the general public Dates : March 15, 2018 - April 15, 2018 The NASA GLOBE Clouds team at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA is excited to announce the NASA GLOBE Clouds: Spring Cloud Observations Data Challenge . Participants are invited to enter up to 10 cloud observations per day from March 15, 2018 to April 15, 2018 using the GLOBE Program’s data entry options or using GLOBE Observer app . GLOBE and ...

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Posted in: Curriculum: STEM   EDUCATION RESEARCH   SCIENCE AND MATH   TECHNOLOGY   Event Topics: OTHER   COMPETITIONS   GLOBE Science Topics: SCIENTIST SKILLS   GLOBE PROTOCOLS   GENERAL SCIENCE   BACKYARD SCIENCE   Investigation Areas: ATMOSPHERE   CLOUDS   News Topics: COMPETITIONS   Primary Audience: TRAINERS   TEACHERS   STUDENTS   PARTNERS   ALUMNI   COUNTRY COORDINATORS   Teacher's Guide: GRADE LEVELS