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GLOBE teacher Tatjana Holjević is rightfully proud of her three students from the Medical High School in Rijeka, Croatia, who took third place in the 2013 GLOBE Student Research Exhibition. The students presented their project "Water Quality and Revitalization Potential of the Mrtvi Kanal Channel" at the GLOBE Annual Meeting.  >>

GLOBE students across the Europe and Eurasia Region have been focused on atmosphere since the Aerosols Campaign started in mid-September. The aim of the campaign is to raise the awareness about aerosols, their occurrence, origin and impacts.  >>

GLOBE France will be hosting a teacher workshop September 27-29, 2013. This workshop will focus on air quality with a special emphasis on Black Carbon. GLOBE Master Trainers, Lin Chambers and Jessica Taylor, from NASA Langley Research Center, will present via Skype to the teachers. Chambers will lead discussions on Aerosols- including how to observe Sky Conditions and some of the latest research in aerosol instruments. Taylor will lead a discussion on surface ozone observations and share the latest information on new instrument possibilities.Air Quality Collaboration with GLOBE France  >>

Since 1990, NOAA's Teacher at Sea Program has enabled over 600 teachers to gain first-hand experience of science and life at sea by working on research ships. Teachers have enriched their classroom curricula with a depth of understanding made possible by living and working side-by-side, day and night, with those who contribute to the world's body of scientific knowledge.  >>

Of special interest to our GLOBE Partners in Colorado and the western United States, this notice from our supporters at CIRES: The first in a new four-part webinar series kicks off on October 16 at 4:30 MT with Climate Change and Water in the West Part One: Challenges for the Colorado River Basin.  >>

The GLOBE 2014 Calendar Art Competition is currently underway and the deadline has been extended to 15 October. Encourage your students to express themselves and send us an illustration about what makes their local environment unique.  >>

Yamila Franco, a GLOBE student of Dr. Maria Lorraine de Ruiz-Alma, Headmistress of the Notre Dame School in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, is about to embark on an exciting new journey.  >>

"On Friday night, when most high school students in Tyler, Texas, were going home from a football game, three girls in Hawkins had a different plan. Allyson Edwards, Hope Hughes and Madison Jaco, all Hawkins High School students, intended to Skype students in India to talk about research," writes Emily Guevara of the Tyler Morning Star Newspaper in Tyler, Texas. Learn more about the collaboration to analyze soil characteristics involving students in Tyler and in New Delhi, India, and the girls' trip to Maryland with science teacher Audra Edwards to present their findings at the 2013 GLOBE Student Research Exhibition.  >>

All the latest news in one place... Read the September 2013 GLOBE News Brief.  >>