Category Archives: General Science

On a Research Expedition to Mount Kenya: Africa’s Second Highest Mountain

By Dr. Charles Kironji Gatebe, NASA Scientist for GLOBE Student Research Campaign on Climate I am going to take you on a research expedition to Mount Kenya, where we will hike from a base camp known as Met Station at … Continue reading

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Farewell

This is my last blog as GLOBE Chief Scientist. I have greatly enjoyed sharing my thoughts with you. I have enjoyed hearing from many of you, not only through comments on the blog, but through emails, phone calls, and encounters … Continue reading

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A Day in the Life of a Scientist

Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a scientist? Or the GLOBE Chief Scientist? I do both. My days are sometimes a challenge, since the two jobs are very different. What are these jobs like? Below is … Continue reading

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More about the “Scientific Method”

I have written before on the so-called “scientific method” (or rather “methods“). So have so many others. So I was kind of surprised when I heard someone who should have known better to define science simply as “inference based on … Continue reading

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Chinook!

On 7 December, when I wrote the blog below, we were experiencing a warm wind called a “Chinook” here in Boulder, Colorado. I wanted to wait until after the surface temperature field campaign to post this. It seems appropriate to … Continue reading

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