Webinars have become an important part of the campaign. Below you
will find a list of webinars that are prepared for you for the
Autumn Campaign, as well as invitations to webinars
organised by the Trees Around GLOBE Campaign team.
Recordings of webinars from previous campaigns are available below in
the Archived Webinars section and are listed by date.
The Best of GLOBE Europe
& Eurasia Join us for the virtual event "The Best of GLOBE
Europe & Eurasia," showcasing student research and
community impact. Taking place on February 4-5, 2025, this event
provides your students the opportunity to share their Green-down
projects and other GLOBE activities, inspiring others with their
impactful work.
You can watch the recording to learn about the 2024 Autumn Tree
Campaign plans, green-down activities, and other tree-related teaching
resources. During the session, experienced GLOBE teachers also shared
their insights on doing campaign activities with students of different
age groups.
The webinar, held on September 23, 2024, was conducted in English.
Trees Around the GLOBE Campaign &
GLOBE Observer Connect Webinars
Tuesday, 11 February 2025 @ 1:00pm EST (18:00 UTC, 19:00 CET).
The State of Trees Under Snow – February 2025. Featuring the
February 2025 Snow View Intensive Observation Period in Relation to
Land Cover, Trees, Clouds, and how Snow fits into our Classification System.
Join us as we explore the current February 2025 Snow View Intensive
Observation Period (IOP) and how you can share your view of snow – or
lack of snow – in your community. Peter Falcon will first showcase the
NASA Eyes on Earth tool to highlight how you can see what various NASA
satellites “see,” focusing on specific events like current snow and
wildfire events. This tour of the Earth will then bring us to the
parts of the Earth where we see snow…or don’t see it…and why both are
equally important. We will hear from Peder Nelson, as he discusses the
importance of the Snow View IOP to understanding climate zones, snow
as an indicator of temperature, and what to expect in your community.
Peder will also highlight the use of maps and imagery with tools such
as Open Altimetry (with ICESat-2) and NASA WorldView (with Terra/Aqua MODIS).
Please send an email to Campaign Lead, Brian
Campbell, if you have interest in joining the webinar.
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Archived webinars
Spring 2024
Our Spring with Trees (June 4, 2024)
Meeting of students and teachers participating in the 2024 Spring
Tree Campaign. Student presentations and videos of the Spring Tree
Campaign activities and collaborations. Inspiration for your future work.
Tree
Explorers: Fostering the curiosity of students through exploration and
outdoor activities (April 10, 2024)
Discovering the positive impact of inquiry-based learning and outdoor
activities on student motivation. Gaining valuable insights and lesson
ideas from GLOBE Czech and Lessons in Grass project educators.
Welcome to the Spring Campaign (February 28, 2024)
Introduction to 2024 Spring Tree Campaign activities and schedule.
Green-up activities, the connection between trees and the global
carbon cycle and the link of the Spring Tree campaign to the GLOBE
Year of Carbon and Climate.
Contributions presented at the Campaign Padlet
by: Elementary school Braća Seljan, Karlovac, Croatia - Bookcreator I Elementary school Rugvica, Croatia
- Bookcreator I Elementary schools Luhačovice +
Elementary school Olomouc - Bookcreator I High school Prelog, Croatia, Czech
Republic - Story Map I Elementary school Lučko, Zagreb,
Croatia - presentation I Elementary school Vladimira
Nazora Pazin, Karojba, Croatia - presentation I Forestry and Woodworking school
Karlovac, Croatia - presentation
Welcome to the Autumn Campaign (September 20, 2023)
An introduction to 2023 Autumn Campaign activities and schedule -
green-down activities, carbon activity and tree height measurements.
The final meeting of the Spring Campaign, students presentations of
projects and activities related to greening-up, the carbon cycle and
the role of trees in cooling cities.
Encourage children to build up their sensitivity to trees and develop
a close relationship with them. This crucial first stage provides the
basis for building up knowledge. The Lessons in Grass project lesson
plans, photos, videos, best practices, tips and tricks.
The Virtual Student Conference provided an opportunity to present
Autumn Campaign activities and collaborations to other students,
teachers, and researchers.
Welcome to the Autumn Campaign (September 22, 2022)
An introduction to 2022 Autumn Campaign activities and schedule - all
you need to know about green-down activities, carbon activity and tree
height measurements.
Meeting with Scientists #2 - Phenology in the Past and Now (May 4,
2022)
Dr Elena Bautista Sparrow is a scientist, who lives
in Alaska and works with indigenous (native) communities. She learns
from them wisdom about the environment and natural cycles. She is also
the co-founder of GLOBE Phenology.
Meet this very special guest and learn about the
importance of Phenology and about the unique connection between
people and nature in Alaska.
Meeting with Scientists #1 - Trees and Urban Heat Island (April 7,
2022)
The role of trees in lowering the Urban Heat Island effect explained
by Dr Kevin Czajkowski, Professor at the University of Toledo, USA and
the lead of the GLOBE Urban Heat Island Effect Campaign. Introduction
of new campaign activity Air-conditioned by Trees. Video by Gozo
College Middle School, Malta that shows how students investigated the
effect of trees on urban temperatures and called the local community
to action.
Introduction to 2022 Spring Tree Campaign activities and schedule
- all you need to know about green-up activities, carbon activities
and tree height measurements. Presentation of the campaign experience
by a GLOBE team from Elementary school Rugvica, Croatia,
The webinar was the final meeting of the schools involved in the
autumn phenology campaign and also a presentation of the outcomes of
the GLOBE Tree Reporters Challenge.
What was presented?
Green-down and reporters activities presented by students from
Poltava school 38, Ukraine
School collaboration using Padlet introduced by students and teachers
from Elementary schools Dubovac and Banija, Croatia
Tree TV videos by
Základná škola Plavecký Štvrtok, Slovakia / Osnovna škola Banija,
Croatia / St.Michael School, Malta / Complex of Schools No 5 in
Zabrze, Poland / Secondary school Mate Blažine Labin, Croatia
/ Osnovna škola Rugvica, Croatia / Luhansk Regional Center for
Ecological and Naturalistic Creativity of Student Youth, Ukraine
/ Gozo College Middle School, Malta / Jonava R.Samulevicius
progymnasium, Lithuania / Center for Extracurricular Education of
Melitopol City Council of Zaporizhia Region, Ukraine
Tree Magazine posters from
Gymnasium Mate Blažina Labin, Croatia / OU " Dame Gruev",
North Macedonia / Srednja škola Čakovec, Croatia / The Affiliated
Senior High School of National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan / Gozo
College Middle School, Malta / Osnovna škola Antuna Mihanovića Osijek,
Croatia / Srednja škola Lovre Montija , Knin, Croatia / CVČ VČIELKA
PÚCHOV, Slovakia / Young naturalists station of Velyka Pusarivka Sumy
region, Ukraine
Autumn Colouring Through the Eyes of Scientists (November
10, 2021)
Arnold van Vliet, a phenologist at Wageningen University in the
Netherlands and one of the authors of the European Phenology Campaign
and GrowApp. In the webinar, he talked about the importance of
greening-down for trees and for the global carbon cycle. He also
explained how GrowApp pictures help in scientific research.
Brian Campbell, the lead of the Trees Around the GLOBE student
research campaign introduced plans and opportunities in Year 4 of the
Campaign for teachers and students.
All you need to know about the Autumn Campaign (September
16, 2021)
An introduction to the Autumn campaign activities resources and
schedule. Zuzana Lhotakova, a scientist from Charles University
presented and explained the new carbon activity How Leaves Lose Weight.
Spring observations and cooperation. Sharing and learning
from other schools and countries.
(June 2, 2021)
Teachers and students participating in the Spring Phenology Campaign
shared their experiences and inspired each other with projects and
activities related to green-up and the carbon cycle. Webinar recording
This recording will help you to enter green-up data, create a graph
of leaf growth using the GLOBE
visualisation tool and create and use student accounts.
Meeting with Czech gardening expert and ecologist Michal Plundra on
the role of trees in an urban environment and taking care of trees and
with scientists from Charles University, Premysl Stych (Czech
Republic) and Natalia Kobliuk (Ukraine) who presented how to look at
trees from above using Sentinel Hub. Introducing
2021 Community Trees Challenge: Science is Better Together.
All You Need to Know about the 2021 Spring Campaign. (March
10, 2021).
Introducing the Spring campaign schedule and resources, green-up and
carbon cycle activities. Dr Gunta Kalvāne from the University of
Latvia shared, what it means to work as a phenologist and why she
finds phenology important and interesting.
Autumn Tree Observations and Cooperation: Sharing and
Learning from other Schools and Countries. (November 19, 2020)
Teachers and students participating in the autumn phenology campaign
shared their experiences and inspired each other with projects and
activities related to green-down and tree height measurements.
An introduction to the GLOBE visualization tool. The tool allows you
to create graphs of your tree's greening down and the GLOBE Observer.
Overview of changes to the GLOBE website and GLOBE apps, which will be
implemented in November 2020.
Educators and Students Aligning Greenings and Tree Height: A
Collaboration Between the European Phenology Campaign and the
Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign. (October 13, 2020)
Trees around the
GLOBE Campaign webinar, where students from the Czech Republic:
Primary School Pist and Primary School Hradec Kralove, Stefcova
presented their research on greenings and phenology. The European
Phenology Campaign Lead, Lenka Kleger discussed the science of
greenings and why the observations are so important to understanding
local environments, Dorian Janney, Cross-Campaigns Lead from
NASA Goddard/ADNET introduced using Story Maps to showcase
the trees in your environment, and Dr Christopher
Shuman, Campaign Subject Matter Expert, and Trees in the News
Lead from NASA Goddard/UMBC presented “Trees in the
News” highlighting France’s Parc National des Forêts de Champagne et Bourgogne.
The webinar provides a look at the autumn change of trees from 3
different perspectives: inside the trees (Zuzana Lhotakova, Charles
University); field observations (Brian Campbell, NASA), and satellite
view (Peder Nelson, Oregon State University)
All you need to know about the Autumn Campaign (September 21, 2020)
Autumn campaign schedule, activities, and resources. Inspiration by
the school collaboration project. Introduction to the Trees Around the
GLOBE campaign by its lead Brian Campbell. Online tools looking at
phenology from space introduced by Peder Nelson (Oregon State University).
Why is Phenology Important and what role do Trees Play in
the Carbon Cycle? (April 29, 2020)
In the webinar, you will learn about the meaning and importance of
phenology. Lenka Hájková describes, how scientists use phenology
data and present concrete examples. You will also understand the
basics of the carbon cycle and its connection with trees.
Trees in Changing Environment: What Do Scientists Say?
(May 21, 2020)
Three scientists - Zorana Sedlar (Natural
History Museum, Croatia), Lenka Hájková (Hydrometeorological
Institute, Czech Republic) and Zuzana Lhotáková (Charles University,
Czech Republic) talk about their research on trees and explain how
trees respond to changes in their environment.