Category Archives: General Science

From drought to flood down under: Part III-Coping with the extremes

This week’s blogger is Neil Cliffe, from Agri-Science Queensland.  Neil is the manager of the Climate Risk and Adaptation Project in Queensland, Australia.  This blog post is part of a series on the extreme climate shifts that have been occurring … Continue reading

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Thai Coral Reef and Climate Change

This week our blog is from Dr. Krisanadej Jaroensutasinee and Dr. Mullica Jaroensutasinee from the Centre of Excellence for Ecoinformatics at Walailak University in Thailand.  The research they are presenting in this blog is also done with Sirilak Chumkiew, Premrudee … Continue reading

Posted in Climate, Climate Change, General Science, SCUBAnauts | 6 Comments

Trees in Trouble: What happens after the pine trees die?

This week’s blogger is Emily Robitschek, a proud graduate of Arvada West High School near Denver, Colorado.  In this post she reports about her research project that she conducted while she worked in the GLOBE Program Office in the summer … Continue reading

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Scientist Skills: Surprises in Science

Sometimes, part of being a scientist is dealing with the unexpected. During research projects, scientists might get very surprising results. Or, something might happen to completely change the scope of the project. This is exactly what happened to a group … Continue reading

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Changing climate in Near East North Africa – potential problems

When it comes to climate, each GLOBE region is faced with its own unique problems.  We’ve taken a look at different regions and their problems, such as trees in trouble in North America as well as the Sahel region of … Continue reading

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