News - University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

On Tuesday, 18 January (09:00 a.m. MST), the GIO will be hosting the webinar, “Conducting a Literature Review for your IVSS Project.” The speaker will be Juan Felipe Restrepo Mesa, who is the Knowledge Management Chief, Environmental Education Coordinator, and Biontessori's Research Group Leader for Colegio Montessori de Cartagena in Colombia, South America. In 2017, Juan joined The GLOBE Program as a teacher, and in 2018 became a Mosquito Habitat Mapper (The GLOBE Program’s app, GLOBE Observer, tool) Master Trainer. In 2020, he took part in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Task Force, and is currently a GLOBE's DEI Working Group member. Juan was an IVSS judge in 2020 and 2021.  >>

During this year's challenge, which runs 15 January through 15 February, GLOBE is asking you to observe clouds in two ways. Make sure to consider the following: How do the clouds above your head connect to what's happening on a global scale?  >>

The Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign will be hosting the webinar: “Looking at Trees Across Africa with a Special Presentation on the ‘Unexpectedly Large Count of Trees in the Western African Sahara and Sahel.’ Region Focus: Africa,” on Tuesday, 11 January, at 11:00 a.m. EST (04:00 p.m. UTC).  >>

The GLOBE Mission Mosquito (GMM) webinar, “Projects for the GLOBE International Virtual Science Symposium Using GLOBE Observer Mosquito Habitat Mapper and Land Cover” will be held on Thursday, 13 January, at 02:00 p.m. EST (06:00 p.m. UTC).  >>

Make plans to attend one of the following information and training opportunities as part of the NASA GLOBE Cloud Challenge 2022: Clouds in a Changing Climate.  >>

“Did you know that clouds can both warm and cool our planet? Keeping an eye on clouds helps NASA study our climate. You can notice some of these changes by just looking at the clouds,” Marilé Colón Robles (lead for the GLOBE Clouds Team at NASA's Langley Research Center) said in a recent blog, “Clouds in a Changing Climate.”  >>

The GLOBE Implementation Office (GIO), including the Community Support Team, will be closed on Friday, 31 December, for the seasonal holidays.  >>

U.S. high school students participating in a collaboration effort between The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and the NASA Texas Space Grant Consortium (TSGC) to extend the TSGC Summer Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) Internship program are sharing their research experiences using The GLOBE Program’s app, GLOBE Observer Mosquito Habitat Mapper (MHM) via GLOBE’s “Community Blog.”  >>

The United States GLOBE program is accepting applications for a GLOBE intern at the STEM Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) 2022 Summer High School Intern Program. This opportunity is open to U.S. GLOBE high school Sophomores and Juniors. Applications are due 15 March 2022.  >>

The October 2021 GLOBE Urban Heat Island Effect (UHIE)-Surface Temperature Field Campaign wrapped up, with over 1,200 observations submitted from 43 schools. Over 50 percent of the data was submitted in the final two weeks of December.  >>