Webinars - 30 Years of GLOBE Campaign

During the 30 Years of GLOBE Campaign, the GLOBE Implementation Office will facilitate webinars from NASA scientists, GISN members, GLOBE community members, and other subject matter experts to highlight different local climate-related topics, celebrate the past 30 years of GLOBE data and more!

All webinars will be held virtually over Zoom. Please see below for specific dates and registration details for each webinar.

Title: The Strengths and Possible Drawbacks of AI in Earth Systems: Leveraging Technology Ethically
Date: 8 January 2025 @ 1pm ET (6:00 UTC)
Description: Join Dr. Maria J. Molina, Assistant Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences at the University of Maryland for a discussion on Ethical Science and AI. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers numerous opportunities to enhance our understanding of the Earth’s weather and climate, enabling more accurate predictions and the identification of patterns in large datasets. However, systemic racial and social biases may inadvertently influence these advanced algorithms due to human factors present in Earth science data. This presentation will outline several projects aimed at improving our understanding and prediction of Earth systems through AI, while also addressing the ethical considerations associated with its implementation. The projects encompass various topics, including evaluating the robustness of these models in a changing climate, enhancing precipitation forecasts to better manage water resources, and analyzing shifts in sea ice patterns in polar regions.
Registration: Register for the webinar here.

Title: GLOBE Chronicles of Change
Date: 9 January 2025 @ 10 am ET (3:00 pm UTC)
Description: The GLOBE Chronicles of Change is a template you can use to describe your “pixel”-  your GLOBE Study Site. Join Dr. Rusty Low, Deputy Director of Science, GIO, in this hands-on activity that introduces students to different sources of data that can enrich GLOBE data collected locally.  You will use satellite imagery, demographic data, and other data sources to create  hypotheses about Earth system change in your community, and will identify GLOBE protocols that can be applied to test your hypotheses.  You will leave the webinar with a template you can use to reproduce this activity with your students.
Registration: Register for the webinar here.

Title: A Tale of Two Scientists: Changes in Data and Technology Over Time
Date: 5 December 2025 @ 10 am ET (3:00 pm UTC)
Description: In support of the 30 Years of GLOBE Data campaign, listen in on a discussion between Dr. Russ Congalton, the original GLOBE Land Cover protocol scientist, with scientist Peder Nelson, who currently supports the GLOBE Observer Land Cover tool. How has changes in technology impacted GLOBE data, and what is the scientific legacy of GLOBE data?
Links: Webinar recording

Title: Cleaning GLOBE Data for Student Research Projects and Data Analysis
Date: 20 November 2024 @ 12 pm ET (5:00 pm UTC)
Description: Join Tracy Ostrom, GLOBE Mission Earth Project Coordinator, in this interactive webinar on collecting, organizing and 'cleaning' GLOBE data! We will start by working with atmospheric data collected by middle school students. This engagement will lead webinar participants into interacting with the GLOBE ADAT system. Participants will be shown how GLOBE data from ADAT can be downloaded, "cleaned", and analyzed.
Links: Webinar recording

Title: Data Time Machine: How to Look at Local Data Over Time
Date: 7 November 2024 @ 10 am ET (3:00 pm UTC)
Description: Technology has changed significantly in 30 years, but the fundamental questions we ask of Earth system data are still current. Join Peder Nelson, GLOBE Observer Land Cover science lead in a discussion of why we want to explore that past 30 years of GLOBE data and connect it to our present observations. Using examples, Peder will present strategies to address challenges you might encounter in creating a data time series from your local data, and he will discuss how uncertainty is an issue that always needs to be addressed in the analysis of any data set.
Links: Webinar recording

Title: 30 Years of GLOBE Data Campaign Introduction
Date: 23 October 2024 @ 9 am ET (1:00 pm UTC)
Description: Meet the GIO Science Lead, Dr. Charles Vörösmarty, who will introduce the 2024-2025 data campaign, 30 Years of GLOBE. He will discuss about how changes in the Earth system over time can be detected by looking at data time series. Dr. Vörösmarty will provide examples from his work with water and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
Links: Webinar recording and slide deck

Title: GLOBE Data Student Research Presentations on Agrivoltaic Farming and Urban Heat Islands
Date: 17 October 2024 @ 7 pm ET (11:00 pm UTC)
Description: This webinar will include presentations given by high school students who have collected GLOBE land cover and surface temperature data. The webinar is in partnership with GLOBE Mission Mosquito and the NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative (NESEC). 
Links: Webinar recording

Title: 2025 IVSS Accessing Data from the GLOBE Database
Date: 9 October 2024 @ 1 pm ET (5:00 pm UTC)
Description: Learn how to access and download data from the GLOBE Visualization System and GLOBE's Advanced Data Access Tool (ADAT) to support students with their 2025 International Science Virtual Science Symposium (IVSS) projects, and the connections with the 30 Years of GLOBE Campaign.
Links: Webinar recording and slide deck

Title: Make Your Data Talk: Transforming Data Into Visual Stories
Date: 6 February 2025 @ 10 am ET (3:00 pm UTC)
Description: Peder Nelson will share how to create an animated GIF of a GLOBE study site using Landsat time series images, and use this animation as a way to understand and describe local change. Bring your GLOBE study site and/or your school location (latitude, longitude) to this interactive session. 
Registration: Register for the webinar here.
 
Title: Bridging Worlds: Bringing Indigenous Knowledge to GLOBE Science
Date: 5 June 2025 @ 10 am ET (2:00 pm UTC)
Description: Anne Lewis, from the South Dakota Discovery Center, will share braiding indigenous ways of knowing with western STEM. Using the lessons of Stacy Laravie, a Ponca educator, we will start with understanding the interconnectedness of everything, or traditional ecological kinship, and delve into integrating the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings with STEM for all grade levels.
Registration: Register for the webinar here.

Title: 30 Years of GLOBE Campaign Celebration
Date: TBA September 2025 
Description: Celebrate and share the products and metrics of the 30 Years of GLOBE Campaign!