News - United States of America

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.  >>

The Southeast U.S. GLOBE Student Research Symposium took place on 19-20 April 2018 at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. The Center for STEM Education, Cato College of Education hosted 32 Students and 15 GLOBE teachers. Participants traveled from Puerto Rico, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Arkansas. Students presented a total of 14 GLOBE research projects to their peers and local scientists.  >>

The Purdue University GLOBE Partnership hosted the North America Regional Meeting (NARM) and a Pedosphere Train-the-Trainer 26-29 March 2018 in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.  >>

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

In the spring of 2017, The GLOBE Program held six regional Student Research Symposia (SRS), where teachers and students from schools across the country shared the results of their field investigations using GLOBE protocols. In the first of a series of feature stories, we profile a teacher (form the University of Texas at Tyler Innovation Academy) and his students -- and their experience at the Southwest SRS in Denver, Colorado.  >>