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The North America Regional Office and the North America Regional Meeting (NARM) Committee has decided that the NARM, which will be held in October 2020, will now be a virtual meeting.  >>

U.S. GLOBE Teachers and Partners: The Friday Watercoolers will continue through the end of June (26 June). Each meet-up will begin at 3:10 ET with a brief update from U.S. Country Coordinator Jen Bourgeault, and will proceed with a presentation or two from a GLOBE teacher or partner, with time for questions and conversation following.  >>

In July, GLOBE will be releasing an update to the GLOBE Observer app, which will begin to integrate GLOBE’s data entry system into GLOBE Observer. The first release will include GLOBE’s atmosphere protocols. The new system simplifies and streamlines the site creation process while presenting a new modern interface. Users will be able to create their own protocol “bundles” – combinations of protocols that you use frequently. Over the months ahead, more protocols will be added until the entire data entry system will be available in GLOBE Observer.  >>

In April, NASA's GLOBE Observer (GO) launched the new GLOBE Observer “Clouds Wizard.” application encourages citizen scientists and members of the GLOBE community to use their mobile phone to make measurements of the world around them. One component in the application supports users with the ability to photograph and identify the clouds they see in their sky.  >>

New: GLOBE community members can share webinars, videos, and/or links to resources. Although the GLOBE Implementation Office (GIO) is unable to host any additional meetings throughout the week, GIO can share items that do not conflict with already scheduled events.  >>

The NASA GLOBE Clouds team has put together a family guide filled with activities and resources great to do as a family from your home. (El equipo NASA GLOBE nubes ha preparado una guía para familias llena de actividades y recursos tremendas para realizar haceren family en tu hogar.)  >>

Check out this “Special Edition: Help K12 Students Learn About Earth From Home” collection of K-12 educational resources to support teachers with distance learning and families who are doing their own instructional endeavors about weather, climate, air quality, the Sun and space weather, and other Earth science topics. This collection was put together by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Center for Science Education, a GLOBE partner.  >>

GLOBE Community: Read the recent Community Blog written by Brian Campbell, NASA Senior Earth Science Education Specialist, “Why The GLOBE European Phenology Campaign is Awesome!”  >>

The theme of this year’s World Environment Day, 05 June, is “It’s Time for Nature” – celebrating biodiversity. World Environment Day is the United Nation’s most important day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment. Since it began in 1974, it has grown to become a global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated in over 100 countries.  >>

On Thursday, 04 June, at 2:00 p.m. ET (7:00 p.m. UTC), GLOBE Mission Mosquito (GMM) will host a webinar, “Meet Up and Do Science – Connecting the Drops: The Relationship between Precipitation and Mosquitoes.”  >>