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A recent NASA eClips presentation “Ask SME: Close-up with a NASA Subject Matter Expert: Dr. Lola E. Fatoyinbo Agueh” provides an intimate insight into the excitement and significance of collecting and analyzing satellite imagery and data.  >>

The Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign webinar: “Getting Started with Your Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Projects,” will be held on Tuesday, 19 January, at 02:00 p.m. EST (07:00 p.m. UTC).  >>

In a 03 January TEDxSeattle Talk, “Democratizing Science: Of the people, For the people, By the people,” Dr. Jane Roskams, a neuroscientist, talks about how a people-powered revolution is “Making Science Great Again” and “giving birth to a new scientific democracy where the Open Science and Citizen Science movements converge.”  >>

U.S. undergraduate/graduate students (U.S. citizens or green card holders): Applications for SOARS (Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science) 2021 summer internship program are due 15 February.  >>

Are you participating in the four-part Air Quality Campaign Webinar Series, “Investigating GLOBE Air Quality from the Ground, to Clouds to Satellites,” hosted by the NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative (NESEC)? With NASA scientist, Dr. Margaret Pippin, from Langley Research Center (Hampton, Virginia, USA), the series provides information and tools for exploring air quality.  >>

Have you been keeping up with the latest GLOBE Star Stories? GLOBE Stars are stories of projects, people and extraordinary activities being conducted around the world in connection to GLOBE. These GLOBE Stars are the bright lights that spark our imagination and inspire us with news of GLOBE at work in the world.  >>

Congratulations to the seven GLOBE countries celebrating anniversaries of successful GLOBE implementation during the month of January.  >>

As always, GLOBE continues to work to ensure that your “use” of the website, and associated apps, is as user-friendly as possible. In late January 2021, Phase 1 of the Data Entry app merger into GLOBE Observer will take place. Phase 1 will include the atmosphere protocols, and will allow users to add temperature, rainfall, and other atmospheric measurements directly within the GLOBE Observer app. It will also allow the general public to more easily participate with GLOBE by making observations as a citizen scientist.  >>

“On Monday, 14 December 2020, South America was treated to a fantastic astronomical event – a total solar eclipse. Those in the path of totality had the opportunity to experience an awe-inspiring sight – the Moon completely covering the Sun and allowing the Sun’s atmosphere, known as the corona, to be seen,” said Kristen Weaver (Science Systems and Applications, Inc.) in a GLOBE Observer news article highlighting the event.  >>

I’m sure we can all agree that 2020 has been a year like no other in our lives. In the effort to protect ourselves and our families, we have spent a very large part of the year on the inside looking out, in our homes, and in our heads. And, while we crave the days ahead when friends can gather together, work together, make plans together, we should remember what we have learned during this period of isolation, alone and apart.  >>