Category Archives: General Science

The Connection of Science and Stewardship Part I: Motivation and initial questions

This week we have a guest blogger, Vera Gekov.  Vera is a recent graduate of the Environmental Leadership program at Naropa University in Boulder, CO, USA.  She was drawn to GLOBE because of the program’s commitment of increasing environmental literacy … Continue reading

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The Community Cloud Atlas

This week we have a guest blog post from GISN member Angela Rowe and colleague Nick Guy.  Angela and Nick created The Community Cloud Atlas during April 2013 after years of marveling at the vast variety and nature of clouds.  Angela … Continue reading

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From the Desk of a GLOBE Teacher – Part 4: Participating in a GLOBE Virtual Student Conference

This week we have a guest blogger, Ms. Marcy Burns.  Ms. Burns is a fifth grade teacher at Main Street Intermediate School in Norwalk, Ohio.  As a participant of phase one of the Learning2Research Project, her students were able to … Continue reading

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Exploring the Intertropical Convergence Zone

This week we have a guest post from Janis Steele, PhD and Brooks McCutchen, PhD.  They own and operate Berkshire Sweet Gold Maple and Marine, an agroforestry and ocean-going enterprise concerned with sustainable livelihoods and the preservation of wild and perennial … Continue reading

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Full Length Mississippi: Defining the basin as a cultural and political landscape part I

This week we are continuing our Full Length Mississippi series with Mike Link and his wife Kate Crowley.  Mike is the retired founding director of The Audubon Center of the North Woods in Minnesota, an author of 24 books, a published … Continue reading

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