GLOBE News
Announcing the 2025 International Virtual Science Symposium (IVSS) Theme
September 2024 will see the launch of the 2025 International Virtual Science Symposium (IVSS)! This year, the theme is "30 Years of GLOBE: Understanding the Past, Present, and Future."
As we prepare to celebrate the 30-year anniversary of the GLOBE program, we are looking forward to seeing how students from across all 127 member countries take up the challenge of doing their own research using GLOBE Protocols and accessing and analyzing data from the NASA GLOBE Database as part of their IVSS project. The highlighted badge for the 2025 IVSS is the “I am a Data Scientist” badge since data analysis using historical data from the NASA GLOBE Database is a required portion for each IVSS submission in 2025.
This year GLOBE is also introducing a new ‘I am an Earth System Scientist’ badge that students can earn for describing the interconnectedness of Earth’s spheres on their research question and/or using multiple GLOBE protocols, or protocol bundles, in their investigation. The IVSS is part of GLOBE’s 2025 Field Campaign, and some of the students who produce outstanding work may get the opportunity to present their work at the 2025 GLOBE Annual Meeting in the USA.
Do you want to learn more? There will be an informational webinar shared on 16 September that will be useful for teachers, students, and those interested in volunteering to be judges. On 9 October there will also be a joint 30 Years of GLOBE: Comparing Data Past and Present Field Campaign/IVSS webinar that will help students and teachers understand the GLOBE resources that can support their research.
Informational Meeting Webinar:
Date: Monday 16 September
Time: 1:00–1:45 pm ET (17:00–17:45 UTC)
Meeting ID: Coming soon
Passcode: Coming soon