Upcoming Events | GLOBE Program

SCRC Online Webinar: How to Engage in the SCRC on the new globe.gov Website

06 February 2012: 16:00 UTC / 09:00 US/MST

07 February 2012: 01:30 UTC / 18:30 US/MST on 6 February

The new globe.gov will soon be here. Learn how to better engage with the SCRC through the new GLOBE website. No prior registration required. Simply connect to one of the sessions listed above.

GLOBE Video Competition: Highlight Student Climate Explorations for Earth Day 2012

06 February - 15 March 2012

GLOBE students submit short videos documenting how they are exploring and investigating their local climate using GLOBE protocols and learning activities.

GLOBE at Night 2012

14–23 January

12–21 February

13–22 March

11–20 April

The GLOBE at Night program is an international citizen-science campaign to raise public awareness of the impact of light pollution by inviting citizen-scientists to measure their night sky brightness and submit their observations to a website from a computer or smart phone.

SCRC Online Webinar: Latest News about the Student Climate Research Campaign

27 February 2012: 16:00 UTC / 09:00 US/MST

28 February 2012: 01:30 UTC / 18:30 US/MST on 27 February

The GLOBE Program Office (GPO) invites you to participate in an online webinar to learn more about what is currently happening in the GLOBE Student Climate Research Campaign. No prior registration is required. Simply connect to one of the sessions listed above.

GLOBE Student Climate Research Campaign

2011-2013

The GLOBE Student Climate Research Campaign (SCRC) officially began on Monday, 12 September 2011. The GLOBE SCRC engages students in measuring, investigating, and understanding the climate system in their local communities and around the world. Drawing on GLOBE protocols and data, as well as other datasets, students take climate-related measurements and investigate research questions about climate. Teachers can select from a number of learning components to enhance understanding of climate issues.

Great Global Investigation of Climate 2012

Intensive Observing Periods

1-31 March

1-30 June

1-30 September

1-31 December

The Great Global Investigation of Climate (GGIC) is part of the GLOBE Student Climate Research Campaign (SCRC) and is focused on defining local climate through GLOBE protocols and the student inquiry question “What is my climate and how has it changed?” Students are asked to collect and enter temperature and precipitation data in the GLOBE database and investigate how to classify local weather and climate using these atmospheric data.

GLOBE Cimate and Land Cover Project 2012

Intensive Observing Periods

1-31 January

1-30 April

1-31 July

1-31 October

The GLOBE Program and scientists from NOAA’s Earth Systems Research Laboratory are working with GLOBE schools worldwide, to collect land cover data that will be used to improve land cover and climate models.

World Water Day 2012

22 March 2012

Focus of World Water Day 2012 is Water and Food Security. GLOBE students will examine quality of water by collect hydrology data, specifically water pH. More information to come.

Students can enter data any time during the month of March.

2012 International Environment and Sustainability Olympiad

9-15 June 2012

The 2012 International Environment and Sustainability Olympiad (INESPO) will take place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, from 9-15 June. Students between 13-and-18-years-old are welcome to participate in the Olympiad by presenting research projects that examine innovative solutions to environmental issues. This event will be held conconcurrenly with the 2012 GLOBE Europe+Eurasia Annual Meeting in order to allow participation in both events.

GLOBE Europe+Eurasia 2012 Annual Conference

10-14 June 2012

Utrecht, The Netherlands

GLOBE country coordinators, trainers, scientists, government points of contact and other strategic partners come together to discuss strategies for development in the region. Includes professional development workshops, social activities and visits to the INESPO Sustainability Olympiad.

16th GLOBE Annual Partner Meeting

16–20 July 2012

Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

The 2012 Annual Partner Meeting will take place from 16-20 July on the campus of St. Catherine University, hosted by GLOBE Partner Tony Murphy. Agenda includes instruction to increase the number of proficient GLOBE Trainers and Master Trainers.