News - United States of America

Q & A with GLOBE Partner Jennifer Hammonds, M.Ed. and Senior Manager of K-16 Curriculum and Instruction with National Wildlife Federation (NWF) Eco-Schools USA Program.  >>

California GLOBE Partners Gear Up for Collaboration! Five California GLOBE Partnerships will be working side-by-side on November 16th and 17th in Los Angeles, CA.  >>

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.  >>

GLOBE Trainer Michael Notaro (Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research), GLOBE Partner Rose Pertzborn (University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Space Science & Engineering Center) and a group of students and citizen scientists plan to investigate climate impacts in Wisconsin's Curtis Tension Zone as part of a three-year Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment initiative.  >>

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 U.S. GLOBE Office would like to invite you and your students to participate in an international virtual expedition that is taking place October 2-8, 2018 in several GLOBE countries around the world!  >>

Purdue University has advertised to teachers throughout Indiana to submit student research projects to the Indiana Virtual Science Symposium. The deadline for submitting projects is November 21, 2018. Throughout the development of their projects, students have the opportunity to receive feedback by utilizing a Google Form: https://goo.gl/forms/WIRZE5ZXMgpBVKOq1 Requests for feedback submitted by students on this form will be reviewed and answered by a panel of Purdue graduate students. The Top 2 projects will be recognized with the College of Science Staff and Faculty Choice Awards and will receive travel support to the Midwest Regional Science Symposium (May 2019). Final comments on submitted Google DOCs and winners of the CoS SFC Awards will be announced no later than Friday, December 7, 2018.  >>

The NASA Langley GLOBE Partnership hosted seven GLOBE teacher interns for 10 weeks this summer in Hampton, Virginia. The interns participated in a variety of learning experiences that included connecting with NASA scientists, engineers and educators, daily GLOBE data collection and protocol exploration.  >>

A local news article highlights Crestwood High School (MI) students and their experience at the 2018 Ireland GLE.  >>