Marile Colon Robles - Marile Colon Robles

Marilé Colón Robles is the project scientist for NASA GLOBE Clouds at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. Marilé has been with The GLOBE Program since 2012 and started her role with NASA GLOBE Clouds in 2017. 

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  NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative (NESEC) GLOBE Observer Citizen Science Team (2017-present)
• Lead worldwide Clouds Intensive Observation Periods
  • Spring Clouds Challenge (15 March - 15 April, 2018
  • Fall Clouds Challenge (15 October - 15 November, 2019)
  • Community Cloud Challenge: Science is Better Together (15 July - 15 August, 2020)
  • NASA GLOBE Cloud Challenge 2022: Clouds in a Changing Climate (15 January - 15 February, 2022)
• GLOBE International STEM Network (GISN) member (2017-present)
• GLOBE Trainer (2019)
• NASA GLOBE CLOUD GAZE Principal Investigator (2021-2022)
• GLOBE Science Working Group (2022-present)
• GLOBE Master Trainer (2023)

GLOBE related publications:

• Dodson, J.B., M. Colón Robles, T. Rogerson, J. Taylor, (2022). Do Citizen Science Intense Observation Periods increase data usability? A Deepdive of the NASA GLOBE Clouds data set with satellite comparisons. Earth and Space science, in press, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2021EA002058

• Colón Robles, M. (2021, July/August). Cloud Watching for NASA. Cricket MUSE Science and Exploration for Inquisitive Minds, 25, 26-27.

• Colón Robles, M., Amos, H. M., Dodson, J. B., Bouwman, J., Rogerson, T. M., Bombosch, A., Farmer, L., & Taylor, J. E. (2020). Clouds around the world: How a simple data challenge became a worldwide success. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 101, E1201–E1213, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0295.1.

• Amos, H.M, M.J. Starke, T.M. Rogerson, M. Colón Robles, T. Andersen, R. Boger, B. Campbell, R. D. Low, P. Nelson, D. Overoye, J.E. Taylor, K.L. Weaver, T.M. Ferrell, H. Kohl (2020). GLOBE Observer Data: 2016-2019 Earth and Space Science, 7, e2020EA001175. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EA001175.

• Colón Robles, M., Bouwman, J., and Smith-Long, C., (2019). Integrating Tech: Making Science Come Alive With Clouds. NSTA Science Scope, vol. 43, no. 4, November 2019. pp. 8-12. https://observer.globe.gov/documents/19589576/52621820/NSTA+Science+SCOPE+Integrating+Tech+with+Clouds/8da3cd4b-8832-47e4-85f4-feee021b7fdb

• L. Hayden, J. Taylor and M. Colon Robles, "GLOBE: Connecting to Community of Observers Directly to NASA Satellites [Education]," in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 98-99, March 2019, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8672158.
• Dodson, J.B., Colón Robles, M., Taylor J.E., DeFontes, C.C., Weaver K.L., (2019). Eclipse Across America: Citizen Science Observations of the 21 August 2017 Total Solar Eclipse. Journal of Applied Meteorology & Climatology, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-18-0297.1.

Marilé Colón Robles is the project scientist for NASA GLOBE Clouds and was the principal investigator for NASA GLOBE CLOUD GAZE! Marilé is part of the Science Education Team in the Science Directorate at NASA Langley Research Center with ADNET Systems, Inc.

Marilé works with students and teachers in the U.S. and around the world on how to engage in real-world STEM activities and in authentic science through clouds and satellite data. She is part of GISN and has a judge for the IVSS. She is available to connect with students, teachers and groups to teach about clouds and satellites.

Mrs. Colón Robles is the recipient of the 2017 Women of Color STEM Award for Educational Leadership – Corporate Promotion of Education. Marilé began her career at NASA Langley in 2010 as part of the Hispanic Education Initiative’s bilingual website NASA y Tú (NASA and You) in partnership with Univision Communications, Inc.

Marilé is from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico where she studied music and played volleyball. She studied Chemistry at the University of Puerto Rico doing research in air quality. She then earned her graduate degree in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign studying clouds and cloud microphysics.