Dr. C's Blog

Dr. C's Blog

Read updates from Dr. Kevin Czajkowski about the Surface Temperature Field Campaign here.

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Kicking off Urban Heat Island Effect campaign

We are kicking off the Urban Heat Island Effect campaign today with a heat wave in the eastern United States. Many record temperatures were broken today with highs reaching 32 to 35 C. 53 sites...

Urban Heat Island Effect Campaign: October Wrap-up and December Kick-off

The Urban Heat Island Effect Campaign in October was the best start to the campaign that GLOBE has ever had. 89 schools entered surface temperature data. Some schools like Huntington High School in...

Kick Off of Urban Heat Island Effect/Surface Temperature Campaign

It is here! The Urban Heat Island Effect/Surface Temperature Campaign for 2018-2019 will start October 1. I am so excited to be kicking off a new campaign. There are so many more schools and...

Field Campaigns: Surface Temperature

Wrap-up of Urban Heat Island/Surface Temperature March Campaign

This has been a great year for the Urban Heat Island/Surface Temperature Student Research Campaign. More schools and more students have participated than ever before. I posted a 7 minute "Thank...

Field Campaigns: Surface Temperature

Urban Heat Island Observations – Please take observations in March

Spring is starting to spring in some parts of the Northern Hemisphere but not quite yet in others. The March observations period for the Urban Heat Island/Surface Temperature Student Research...

GLOBE Science Topics: Backyard Science Earth System Science

Urban Heat Island Student Research Campaign Through December

We are in the middle of our December observations for the Urban Heat Island Effect/Surface Temperature Field Campaign. 69 schools have entered 1323 observations. As developer of the surface...

October Urban Heat Island Field Campaign Review

The Urban Heat Island field campaign October version turned out to be a great success. Many schools took observations and entered them onto the GLOBE website. Remember, we are looking at the urban...

Detroit and Alaska Students Connect Through GLOBE

Having students collaborate on projects has been a great potential of the GLOBE Program. Through GLOBE Mission EARTH, students in Detroit, Michigan and Shageluk, Alaska interacted over the...

Impacts of El Nino As Seen Through GLOBE Student Observations

In the fall of 2016, the students in my Weather and Climate class, GEPL 4490/5490, at the University of Toledo developed projects based on El Nino. The students in class were give the task to look...

Wrap up of Urban Heat Island/Surface Temperature Research Campaign

Hi All, The Urban Heat Island/Surface Temperature Research Campaign was very successful this year. There were a total of 1306 surface temperature observations from 59 schools during the Urban Heat...

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