GLOBE Field Campaigns are worldwide or regional projects that provide student research experiences to explore and learn about Earth through a network of students, teachers, and scientists. GLOBE field campaigns are grounded in real science embedded in an inquiry-based, collaborative approach.
Intensive Observing Periods (IOPs) are focused periods of time where participants are encouraged to collect large amounts of data to be entered in the GLOBE database. Climate Scientists will lead Intensive Obesrving Periods, and both students and scientist can then use the GLOBE data and long-term climate data to conduct climate research investigations.
Intensive Observing Periods (IOPs)
IOPs are quarterly and include:
The Great Global Investigation of Climate (GGIC)
September - December - March - June
The GGIC is focused on defining local climate through GLOBE protocols and the student inquiry question “What is my climate and how has it changed?” Classrooms are asked to collect and enter temperature and precipitation data in the GLOBE database and investigate how to classify local climate using these atmospheric data. In the course of the GGIC students investigate how:
- precipitation and temperature data can be used to characterize climate;
- local climate can be classified; and
- local studies of weather can lead to the study of climate.
Great Global Investigation of Climate (GGIC) Web Page
The Climate and Land Cover Project (CLC)
July - October - January - April
The Climate and Land Cover Project is a research effort between GLOBE schools and climate scientists to improve land cover classifications for climate models. Using GLOBE land cover protocols, students take photographs and classify representative land cover areas near their schools and upload these data to the GLOBE database.These data can be used by students to compare land cover around the world and will be used by scientists to improve land cover classifications for climate models.
Climate and Land Cover(CLC) Web Page
Field Campaigns
Current and past field campaigns include:
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GLOBE at Night (2005-ongoing) The GLOBE at Night program is an international citizen-science campaign to raise public awareness of the impact of light pollution by encouraging everyone everywhere to measure local levels of night sky brightness and contribute observations online to a world map. |
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International Polar Year (2007-2009) Scientific research and educational activities are planned for IPY to advance our understanding of Earth's polar regions and how they impact the rest of the world. |
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Surface Temperature Field Campaign (2006-2010) The University of Toledo is leading annual field campaigns focused on the impacts of snow on Earth's temperature. |
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GLOBE ONE (2005-2006) GLOBE ONE is a field campaign involving a first hand partnership between students and scientists to collect a structured, multidisciplinary data set designed to answer a research question. The question being asked is: For corn and soybeans, what are the environmental impacts associated with different frequencies and intensities of soil tillage farming, and with different amounts of crop residue left after planting as compared to prairie and urban sites? |