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07/17/2020
Comfortable Using the Open Altimetry Online Tool to Compare Tree Height Data? Check out Recent Blog with Tutorials
GLOBE Community: Read the recent Community Blog written by Brian Campbell, NASA Senior Earth Science Education Specialist, “Are You Comfortable Using the Open Altimetry Online Tool to Compare your Tree Height Data to ICESat-2 Satellite Data?”  >>

07/16/2020
2020 United States Regional Posters Available on the GLOBE Website
Although the United States regional Student Research Symposia (SRS) were not held in-person this year, many students were able to upload their research to the GLOBE website.  >>

07/16/2020
2020 Community Cloud Challenge is On! Check Out 16 July NASA Presentation/Activity
The 2020 Community Cloud Challenge: Science is Better is on! To find out ways you can participate in this event, check out a recent GLOBE Community Blog, written by Marilé Colón Robles (lead for the GLOBE Clouds Team at NASA's Langley Research Center) providing details on how to participate, how to take cloud and sky observations, the schedule of weekly cloud scientist videos, and more!  >>

07/15/2020
NASA and Australia Sign GLOBE Agreement
NASA and the Australian Space Agency have signed an agreement to cooperate on The GLOBE Program. The new agreement enables the Australian Space Agency to re-launch GLOBE activities in Australia, building upon the foundation it created in 1995 when Australia first joined GLOBE.  >>

07/15/2020
Funding Opportunity for GLOBE Community: Grant Applications for 2020/2021 School Year Deadline is 15 July
Youth Learning as Citizen Environmental Scientists (YLACES), seeks grant applications for the 2020/2021 school year. Those working with youth to do research projects through environmental citizen science are invited to submit proposals for support to help acquire the scientific instruments or other necessary data collection tools or materials.  >>

07/14/2020
2020 Community Cloud Challenge Begins Tomorrow (15 July)! Read Recent Blog With Ways You Can Participate!
Ready to join in the 2020 Community Cloud Challenge: Science is Better, which begins on 15 July and concludes on 15 August? Then read the latest GLOBE Community Blog, written by Marilé Colón Robles (lead for the GLOBE Clouds Team at NASA's Langley Research Center) providing details on how to participate, how to take cloud and sky observations, the schedule of weekly cloud scientist videos, and more!  >>

07/14/2020
Let’s Start Investigating! Read Recent Blog “Using NASA Data to Predict Where and When it Will Rain!”
Are you keeping up with the GLOBE community blogs? Read the latest blog, “Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Using NASA Data to Predict Where and When it will Rain!” written by NASA Science Educator Dorian Wood Janney.  >>

07/13/2020
GLOBE Community: Create a “GLOBE Team” Today – Data Collection Made Easy!
GLOBE Community: If you are a GLOBE account holder, you can create and join teams of people, called “GLOBE Teams,” which will enable you to track your group’s data-collection efforts. GLOBE Teams can be used to set up a competition, coordinate a community’s citizen science efforts, support an educational or corporate initiative, or simply enable a group of people to work together.  >>

07/13/2020
2020 Community Cloud Challenge Begins this Week (15 July)! Read NASA Press Release
This summer (or winter, if you live in the Southern Hemisphere) join GLOBE in the 2020 Community Cloud Challenge: Science is Better Together. The Community Cloud Challenge kicks off on 15 July 2020 and concludes on 15 August 2020.  >>

07/09/2020
Deadline for Submitting Feedback on GLOBE IVSS Rubrics is 31 July
The GLOBE Implementation Office (GIO) is in the process of updating the rubrics for the International Virtual Science Symposium (IVSS) based on community feedback and what has been learned during the IVSS events over the last five years.  >>