News - United States of America

Sixty-eight students from seven schools from Connecticut, Louisiana, and Texas visited the University of Texas at Tyler on 19 and 20 May for the Southwest, Southeast, and Northeast & Mid-Atlantic Student Research Symposium. Attending from seven schools, the students presented 21 projects highlighting their research using GLOBE protocols and data.  >>

More than 200 students from around the United States shared their research at four GLOBE U.S. Regional Student Research Symposia (SRS) in April and May 2023.  >>

On 24 April 2023, 65 students from 21 schools from Alaska, Montana and Washington gathered together at the Wedgewood Hotel and Conference Center in Fairbanks, Alaska, for the 2023 Northwest Regional GLOBE Student Research Symposium.  >>

The University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted the GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) Midwest Student Research Symposium (SRS) from 21-23 April 2023 in Madison, Wisc. Forty-seven students from grades 5-12 from Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin presented their research projects to 12 judges.  >>

This January and February, educators and their students from 11 sites in five states and one Canadian province collected measurements of snow (or rainfall) accumulations. They were participating in Mission SnowGLOBE, a GLOBE intensive observation period in support of the NASA IMPACTS mission.  >>

Two U.S. Partner Forum members (Richard Wagner and Michael Jabot) complete their terms, and two new members (Michael Griffith and Michael Odell) begin their terms.  >>

Updates on activities from the GLOBE Mission EARTH–University of Toledo Partnership, including Kids Club, Upward Bound and NASA SEES  >>

Earth Day is GLOBE’s anniversary and founding, which is a cause for celebration! This year, the GLOBE Implementation Office and most schools will celebrate Earth Day on Friday, 21 April. We invite you to join in as we celebrate through our annual online event on 21 April at 9 a.m. Mountain Time. The livestream will be available through the GLOBE Earth Day webpage. We know many of you are planning your own activities to celebrate Earth Day. We would like to celebrate your work and highlight those events too. There are two ways to help us do this – through video and by sharing the details of your Earth Day events for posting to the GLOBE page.  >>

Over 170 students and 12 teachers from four local school districts visited Earth Heart Farms in Ottawa County, Ohio, during the week of 10 October 2022. The students took measurements, explored science foundational concepts, and shaped their new knowledge of biology and the Farm to look at the whole system, including aspects like what contributes to the formation of significant harmful algal blooms in the western basin of Lake Erie.  >>

GLOBE Mission Earth at the University of Toledo received a B-WET (Bay Watershed Education and Training) grant titled “Engaging K-12 Students in Authentic Watershed Experiences, Science and Stewardship: Reconnecting to the Land at Earth Heart Farms” from NOAA.  >>