2020_Webinars

Webinars

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.

 

PAST: Exploring the 2024 Autumn Tree Campaign

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.

Recording I Presentation

 

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.

Read more here.

 

 

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Trees Around the GLOBE Campaign & GLOBE Observer Connect Webinars

Tuesday, 15 October 15 2024 @ 17:00 UTC, 19:00 CET. The State of Trees – October 2024. Welcome to Year 7: An Overview of the Essential NASA Missions and Looking Towards the Present…….Data and what it can tell us!

During this webinar, the campaign team will discuss the essential NASA missions (ICESat-2, GEDI, NISAR, and the Landsat series of satellites) aligning with this campaign. We will discuss what they “see” and what they can help you see. Following the satellite discussion, we will begin our trip into the last 30 years of the GLOBE Program data, aligning to the upcoming 2025 GLOBE IVSS. We will start from the “Present,” and showcase an example of data collection and observations at the Palmyra Cove Nature Center in Palmyra Cove, New Jersey, USA. We will use this example in future webinars when we discuss the past and future data, and how to use these data to determine the land cover change of an area.

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.

Watch the recording

Presentations and videos that were featured in the webinar

 

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.

See recording I Presentation - IBL, Motivation to Experiments and Action I Presentation - Bond with your trees

 

 

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.

See recording I Presentation - green-up and campaign essentials I Presentation - Trees and Carbon Cycle


 

Autumn 2023

Our Autumn with Trees (November 29, 2023)

The final meeting of the Autumn Campaign. Student presentations of the autumn projects on green-down and trees.

Webinar recording

Materials presented at the webinar

 

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.

Webinar recording I Presentation

 


Spring 2023

 

Our Spring with Trees (May 31, 2023)

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.

Webinar recording   Elementary school Luhacovice, Czechia presentation I Elementary school Zadarski Otoci, Zadar, Croatia presentation I Padlet by Ekonomska Sola Murska Sobota, Slovenia I Secondary School Leonardo da Vinci (Marcallo con Casone), Italy presentation I Elementary schools Banija and Dubovac, Croatia presentation IBraca Seljan Elementary school, Croatia presentation I Videos by: Elementary school Pardubice, Staňkova 128, Czech Republic / Elementary school Sime Budinica, Croatia / Gymnasium AIA-GESS, Georgia I Videos by: Vcielka Puchov Centre with United school Puchov, Slovakia / Rivne Lyceum 15, Ukraine followed by comment by a teacher from Rivne Lyceum 15

 

Experience and Love Trees (March 30, 2023)

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. 

Webinar recording I Presentation

 

Welcome to the Spring Campaign (February 15, 2023)

Introduction to 2023 Spring Tree Campaign activities and schedule. Intended mainly for those, who are starting with the campaign.

Webinar recording I Presentation - Green-up I Presentation - carbon cycle

 


Autumn 2022

Virtual Student Conference (November 28 and 29)

The Virtual Student Conference provided an opportunity to present Autumn Campaign activities and collaborations to other students, teachers, and researchers. 

Day 1 recording I Day 2 recording

 

 

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.

 

Webinar recording I Presentation I Student video

 


Spring 2022

 

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.

Webinar recording I Dr. Sparrow presentationIntroduction to Arctic and Earth SIGNs video

 

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. 

Webinar recording I Video by Gozo College Middle School, Malta I Activity Air-conditioned by Trees I i-Tree tool (introduced by Dr. Czajkowski)

 

Spring Campaign in a Nutshell (February 10, 2022)

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,

Webinar recordingGreen-up activities, campaign plans and resources presentation I Carbon cycle activities presentation I Elementary school Rugvica presentation

 

Autumn 2021

Our autumn with trees (December 1, 2021)

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

Webinar recording I Tree Magazine postersTree TV videos I Poltava school 38 presentation I Padlet - school collaboration


 

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. 

Webinar recording


 

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.

Webinar recording 

 

 

Spring 2021

 

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

Slide show of pictures shared by schools through the Campaign discussion forum - Green-up activities, Carbon cycle activities


 

My Spring Data. (May 6, 2021) 

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. 

Webinar recording I Presentation

 


 

Trees in my Neighborhood. (April 15, 2021)

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.

Webinar recording I Michal Plundra presentation I Premysl Stych presentation


 

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. 

Webinar recording I Presentation Spring Campaign I Presentation Carbon Activities 

 

Autumn 2020

 

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.

Webinar recording


 

How to work with autumn data (October 19, 2020) 

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.

Webinar recording I Presentation 


 

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. 

See the webinar recording and presentations


 

From Leaves to Satellites (October 8, 2020)

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)

Webinar recording I Trees Campaign Presentation

 


 

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).

Webinar recording I Phenology Campaign presentation I School presentation - ZS Manesova Otrokovice, Czech Republic I Trees Campaign Presentation

 

Spring 2020

 

How to Upload Data and Make Graphs of Green Up (April 2, 2020)

GLOBE trainer Bara Semerakova explains,  how to enter spring tree data and how to create a graph of leaf growth using the GLOBE visualisation tool.

Webinar recordingPresentation I Data Upload Guide

 


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.

Webinar recordingPresentation


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.

Webinar recording

 

Autumn 2019

 

How to upload Green Down Data (October 10, 2019)

GLOBE trainer Bara Semerakova explains, how to enter data and how to create a graph of leaf colour change using the GLOBE visualisation tool.

Webinar recording I Presentation