4/05/2012 16:00 MDT - In December 2011, Binod Shrestha was elected as the Asia+Pacific regional representative to the GLOBE International Advisory Committee (GIAC).  Shrestha, a graduate of Shanker Dev College in Kathmandu, began his career in environmental work as a volunteer for Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness (ECCA), a leading Nepalese organization in the sector of social mobilization and community development.

2/01/2012 08:00 MST - Drs. Shuji Yamashita (right) and Tomoyasu Yoshitomi (left) currently lead the GLOBE Program in Japan. The two scientists are colleagues at Tokyo Gakugei University that houses the Field Studies Institute for Environmental Education (FSIFEE). The GLOBE Japan center is comprised of faculty from FSIFEE’s field of Soil Science, Environmental Education and Fish Biology and the University’s departments of Physics, Physical Geography and Conservation Ecology that conduct research in the methodology of field studies and promote environmental education in schools.

11/01/10 - 08:00 MDT - Madhuranga Rathnayake began his journey with GLOBE in 2004 while a high school student at the Maliyadeva College, in Kurunegala, Sri Lanka. Under the tutelage of Mrs. Nandanee Raneweera, he took part in the very first GLOBE Day and Workshop of Sri Lanka. The following year he helped organize the All Island National GLOBE Campaign to promote awareness about GLOBE activities and objectives and for the next several years, GLOBE workshops, student camps, and campaigns became regular annual events. In 2007, the GLOBE Club of Maliyadeva College ceremoniously launched a website dedicated to furthering information about GLOBE activities in Sri Lanka.

09/01/2010 12:00 AM MDT - Five countries celebrate the anniversaries of successful GLOBE implementation in the month of September. The GLOBE Program Office wishes to commend the partners and teachers working hard to advance GLOBE in Bulgaria, Chad, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Thailand.