News - South Africa

Nominations are starting to come in for the new GLOBE Working Groups in Science, Education, Evaluation, Technology, and Communication. Due date is 24 May 2014.  >>

Melissa Cristobal and Claudio Lacuesta, GLOBE Alumni of Montevideo will represent Uruguay at the Intel ISE International Science and Engineering Fair in in Los Angeles, California, May 2014.  >>

During a major rehearsal of the SMAP calibration and validation system during May and June 2014, the SMAP science team encourages GLOBE schools to collect soil moisture measurements that can be compared to the simulated SMAP observations.  >>

Five Working Groups are being formed to enhance the role of GLOBE U.S. and Country Partners/Coordinators and GLOBE Scientists and Educators in shaping the future of the GLOBE Program and supporting the development and implementation of GLOBE worldwide. Nominations for representatives are now being accepted.  >>

On Earth Day 1994, plans were announced for a new program called GLOBE and in the two decades since then, GLOBE has grown into a vibrant community throughout the entire world. You can understand why Earth Day is always such a significant day for us. For all of you around the world, we created this special tribute to our wonderful GLOBE community.  >>

NASA invites you -- and everyone else on the planet -- to take part in a worldwide celebration of Earth Day this year with the agency's #GlobalSelfie event.  >>

Registration for the 2014 GLOBE Learning Expedition (GLE), and 18th Annual GLOBE Partner Meeting is open! Join us in the GLOBE community's most exciting event of 2014, in New Delhi, from 3 – 8 August.  >>

A new and improved Honor Roll system will be available on the GLOBE website. The original recognition system was termed the GLOBE Chief Scientist's Honor Roll. The GLOBE Science Honor Roll is a way for GLOBE to recognize the data contributions of GLOBE students and schools. Additionally, in response to the great feedback we have received from the GLOBE community, a number of enhancements have been added to the Workshop, and News and Events applications.  >>

Read the message from our Sponsors to the 366 GLOBE teachers, trainers and master trainers who completed the recent survey relating to the development of online training materials.  >>

Join Mika Vanhanen, Former GLOBE teacher in Finland, and current founder, CEO of ENO - Environment Online in the "Treelympics" an international tree-planting competition. Celebrate 10 years of ENO, and help acheive ENO's committment to planting 100 million trees by 2017!  >>