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Several enhancements were made, or were in progress, during the month of March 2019.  >>

Join GLOBE Observer LIVE for a special Facebook Live event all about Trees on 26 March 2018 at 3:00 p.m. EDT.  >>

Healthy forests play a crucial role in Earth’s ecosystem as growing trees take up carbon from the atmosphere. NASA satellites and airborne missions study forests to see how carbon moves through ecosystems – and now citizen scientists can help investigate this key question as well by using their smartphone to measure tree height.  >>

Citizen scientists from all of the GLOBE regions -- and from 25 countries -- participated in the 2018 Land Cover Challenge.  >>

GLOBE Observer Land Cover is kicking off with a data challenge to map as much land as possible between 22 Sept., Public Lands Day, and 1 Oct., NASA’s 60th anniversary.  >>

The Land Cover feature is now available, and just in time for National Public Lands Day. Join GLOBE Observer LIVE from one of our public lands, the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon for a special Facebook Live event on 17 September 2018 at 3:30 p.m. PDT.  >>

Purdue University has advertised to teachers throughout Indiana to submit student research projects to the Indiana Virtual Science Symposium. The deadline for submitting projects is November 21, 2018. Throughout the development of their projects, students have the opportunity to receive feedback by utilizing a Google Form: https://goo.gl/forms/WIRZE5ZXMgpBVKOq1 Requests for feedback submitted by students on this form will be reviewed and answered by a panel of Purdue graduate students. The Top 2 projects will be recognized with the College of Science Staff and Faculty Choice Awards and will receive travel support to the Midwest Regional Science Symposium (May 2019). Final comments on submitted Google DOCs and winners of the CoS SFC Awards will be announced no later than Friday, December 7, 2018.  >>

See your measurement data over time with the new visualization timeline animation tool  >>

Purdue University GLOBE partnership introduces Homeschool network to GLOBE  >>

NASA has introduced the Mosquito Habitat Mapper as part of its GLOBE Observer app available for iPhone and Android. This app includes training, making it easy for anyone to use.  >>