News - United States of America

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.  >>

Students at Longleaf Middle School in Blythewood, SC, are conducting a yearlong surface temperature investigation in their school parking lot.  >>

Over 30 GLOBE-related projects were presented at the 2022 AGU Fall meeting, held 12-16 December 2022 in Chicago, IL.  >>

The 2022 GLOBE North American Regional Meeting (NARM) was held in Reading, PA, on 7 and 8 November 2022, hosted by Berks Nature at The Nature Place. We were fortunate to have had a great mix of participants, including GLOBE Partners, community-based colleagues, public school teachers and administrators, NASA employees, and GLOBE employees.  >>

On 7 and 8 November 2022, GLOBE Partners WestEd/UC Berkeley and the California Academy of Sciences co-hosted an in-person 2022 North America Regional Meeting (NARM) workshop at the Lake Merritt Boathouse in Oakland, CA. GLOBE teachers, partnerships and the GLOBE Implementation Office from Colorado, New Mexico, Alaska and California participated in the in-person event.  >>