Snow View - Snow View: GLOBE Photos of Snow in Clouds, Trees and on Land - February, 2025
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Official Snow View Intensive Observation Period (IOP) Logo created by undergraduate GLOBE alumna, Michelle Morris.
Michelle Morris (Mimo) is a recent undergraduate alumna at University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) studying Natural Resources and the Environment with a focus in GIS. When taking an "Introduction to Watershed Management" class at UAF which required a semester-long GLOBE investigation and IVSS report, Mimo and her classmate Eli decided not to do their project on the GLOBE carbon cycle protocol and moss cover. On their designated field work day, new snow had covered the moss and most of the grass. Instead, Mimo and Eli focused on using the GLOBE Observer Landcover tool to observe freeze-up of two streams while measuring temperature and relative humidity.
In this logo, Mimo and her colleague are students who are learning science by doing science. They were freezing cold and figuring it out in the field, with GLOBE field guides and the GLOBE Observer App app in an ungloved hand.
Mimo works as a geospatial analyst at UAF's Geographic Information Network of Alaska (GINA). She made this design while collaborating on a project inventorying existing snow participatory science projects, including GLOBE. Read her bio at https://gina.alaska.edu/about/our-team/
In this logo, Mimo and her colleague are students who are learning science by doing science. They were freezing cold and figuring it out in the field, with GLOBE field guides and the GLOBE Observer App app in an ungloved hand.
Mimo works as a geospatial analyst at UAF's Geographic Information Network of Alaska (GINA). She made this design while collaborating on a project inventorying existing snow participatory science projects, including GLOBE. Read her bio at https://gina.alaska.edu/about/our-team/
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Snow View: GLOBE Photos of Snow in Clouds, Trees and on Land - February, 2025
Campaign Dates: 1 February - 28 February 2025
Does your region ever experience snow in February? Share your view of snow - or lack of snow - in your community. Not everyone has your unique view of the snow from your location on Earth.
Snow is part of the local and global water cycle. A snow crystal forms in a cloud, high in the atmosphere, and falls when it becomes heavy. As the snow crystal falls, it may be intercepted by a tree or structure, where it changes due to the temperature, wind, or other factors.
Learn about snow by observing and photographing snow with the GLOBE Program's application, GLOBE Observer - Cloud, Tree and Land Cover tools. With a measuring device like a ruler, anyone can measure the depth of snow.
GLOBE members and students may also use the GLOBE Atmosphere Solid Precipitation Protocol to measure snow depth and snow water equivalent.
Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Oregon State University and NASA have been observing snow on the ground and with remote sensing, including satellites. GLOBE Observer photos and GLOBE collected data may have corresponding satellite imagery.
The Snow View team is encouraging the GLOBE community to collect snow data throughout February 2025. View the Snow View IOP YouTube playlist for an archive of recorded webinars.
Does your region ever experience snow in February? Share your view of snow - or lack of snow - in your community. Not everyone has your unique view of the snow from your location on Earth.
Snow is part of the local and global water cycle. A snow crystal forms in a cloud, high in the atmosphere, and falls when it becomes heavy. As the snow crystal falls, it may be intercepted by a tree or structure, where it changes due to the temperature, wind, or other factors.
Learn about snow by observing and photographing snow with the GLOBE Program's application, GLOBE Observer - Cloud, Tree and Land Cover tools. With a measuring device like a ruler, anyone can measure the depth of snow.
GLOBE members and students may also use the GLOBE Atmosphere Solid Precipitation Protocol to measure snow depth and snow water equivalent.
Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Oregon State University and NASA have been observing snow on the ground and with remote sensing, including satellites. GLOBE Observer photos and GLOBE collected data may have corresponding satellite imagery.
The Snow View team is encouraging the GLOBE community to collect snow data throughout February 2025. View the Snow View IOP YouTube playlist for an archive of recorded webinars.
- Choose a GLOBE Observer tool - Land Cover, Trees, Clouds, or the GLOBE Atmospheric Solid Precipitation Protocol
- Record time
- Record geographic location
- Answer surface condition questions (Is there ice or snow?)
- Take photos according to the GLOBE Observer tool or GLOBE protocol
- In GO Land Cover tool, add a feature photo with or without snow.
- In GO Land Cover tool, add a caption that includes snow depth and units used
Title: Snow View IOP Kick-off and Informational Discussion
Date: 29 January 2025 @ 4 pm ET (21:00 UTC)
Description: Join Peder Nelson, GLOBE Observer Land Cover Lead, and the Snow View IOP team for a kick-off discussion about the Snow View Intensive Observation Period (IOP) taking place during the month of February.
Link: View the recorded webinar
Title: Make Your Data Talk: Transforming Data Into Visual Stories
Date: 6 February 2025 @ 10 am ET (15:00 UTC)
Description: Do you wonder how many days snow will cover the ground in your area? Are those leaves around you always on the trees? or Is that water always in that location? In this webinar, Peder Nelson will share how to create a seasonal animated-GIF of a GLOBE study site using Landsat time series images. He will discuss how to use time series animations as a way to understand and describe local change and reveal patterns and processes that are often hidden within a single image. Bring your GLOBE study site and/or your school location (latitude, longitude) to this interactive session. (This is a joint webinar with the 30 Years of GLOBE Campaign.)
Link: View the recorded webinar
Title: Snow Impacts: How Does Your Community Adapt?
Date: 13 February 2025 @ 12 pm ET (17:00 UTC)
Description: Join Ginny Katz, founder of HazAdapt, and the Snow View IOP team to learn about snow hazards and community resiliency planning.
Link: View the recorded webinar
Title: The More Snow Views the Better! Let's Pair Up With a Satellite and Its Sensors
Date: 20 February 2025 @ 12 pm ET (17:00 UTC)
Description: Join Peder Nelson to explore, view, and practice ways of measuring snow from a distance. Remote sensing is a broad term that includes using your GLOBE Observer mobile app to collect images from a ground-perspective but is also the same technology collecting images from space. In this webinar, we will view trends from our efforts both from the ground but also space-based snow views like GLOBE Visualization maps and images, NASA WorldView for seeing snow cover and snow extent over the past days (#DOY32 to #DOY51), and AppEEARS -a browser-based tool for easy access to other Earth Observation remote sensing views.
Registration: Register for the webinar here.
Title: Watercooler with Christi Buffington
Date: 26 February 2025 @ 4:10 pm ET (21:10 UTC)
Description: Christi Buffington will share highlights from the Snow View IOP. Join to learn about the GLOBE snow data collected and submitted, and next steps for the IOP.
Registration: Register for the webinar here.
Title: Meet the NASA Snow and Data Scientist - Dr. Carrie Vuyovich
Date: 28 February 2025 @ 5:15 pm ET (22:15 UTC)
Description: Dr. Carrie Vuyovich is a snow scientist with the NASA Sciences and Exploration Directorate at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Vuyovich's research includes developing and evaluating remote sensing and modeling techniques to improve estimates of snowpack water supply and snowmelt runoff. In this "Meet the NASA Scientist" webinar, Dr. Vuyovich will hear from Vocational Agriculture students in Delta Junction to hear about their snow observations and share her research with GLOBE students, educators, and citizen scientists who are documenting their views of snow, or lack of snow, as part of the Snow View IOP.
Registration: Register for the webinar here
Date: 29 January 2025 @ 4 pm ET (21:00 UTC)
Description: Join Peder Nelson, GLOBE Observer Land Cover Lead, and the Snow View IOP team for a kick-off discussion about the Snow View Intensive Observation Period (IOP) taking place during the month of February.
Link: View the recorded webinar
Title: Make Your Data Talk: Transforming Data Into Visual Stories
Date: 6 February 2025 @ 10 am ET (15:00 UTC)
Description: Do you wonder how many days snow will cover the ground in your area? Are those leaves around you always on the trees? or Is that water always in that location? In this webinar, Peder Nelson will share how to create a seasonal animated-GIF of a GLOBE study site using Landsat time series images. He will discuss how to use time series animations as a way to understand and describe local change and reveal patterns and processes that are often hidden within a single image. Bring your GLOBE study site and/or your school location (latitude, longitude) to this interactive session. (This is a joint webinar with the 30 Years of GLOBE Campaign.)
Link: View the recorded webinar
Title: Snow Impacts: How Does Your Community Adapt?
Date: 13 February 2025 @ 12 pm ET (17:00 UTC)
Description: Join Ginny Katz, founder of HazAdapt, and the Snow View IOP team to learn about snow hazards and community resiliency planning.
Link: View the recorded webinar
Title: The More Snow Views the Better! Let's Pair Up With a Satellite and Its Sensors
Date: 20 February 2025 @ 12 pm ET (17:00 UTC)
Description: Join Peder Nelson to explore, view, and practice ways of measuring snow from a distance. Remote sensing is a broad term that includes using your GLOBE Observer mobile app to collect images from a ground-perspective but is also the same technology collecting images from space. In this webinar, we will view trends from our efforts both from the ground but also space-based snow views like GLOBE Visualization maps and images, NASA WorldView for seeing snow cover and snow extent over the past days (#DOY32 to #DOY51), and AppEEARS -a browser-based tool for easy access to other Earth Observation remote sensing views.
Registration: Register for the webinar here.
Title: Watercooler with Christi Buffington
Date: 26 February 2025 @ 4:10 pm ET (21:10 UTC)
Description: Christi Buffington will share highlights from the Snow View IOP. Join to learn about the GLOBE snow data collected and submitted, and next steps for the IOP.
Registration: Register for the webinar here.
Title: Meet the NASA Snow and Data Scientist - Dr. Carrie Vuyovich
Date: 28 February 2025 @ 5:15 pm ET (22:15 UTC)
Description: Dr. Carrie Vuyovich is a snow scientist with the NASA Sciences and Exploration Directorate at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Vuyovich's research includes developing and evaluating remote sensing and modeling techniques to improve estimates of snowpack water supply and snowmelt runoff. In this "Meet the NASA Scientist" webinar, Dr. Vuyovich will hear from Vocational Agriculture students in Delta Junction to hear about their snow observations and share her research with GLOBE students, educators, and citizen scientists who are documenting their views of snow, or lack of snow, as part of the Snow View IOP.
Registration: Register for the webinar here
Videos:
Snow View IOP February 2025 Video Shorts by Peder Nelson, GLOBE Observer Land Cover Science Lead
Snow Observations to Improve Satellite Snowfall Rate Estimates with GLOBE February 2025: Carl Dierking, Satellite Liaison at Geographic Information Network of Alaska, describes how polar-orbiting satellites work and the type of information they collect, such as how much water is in the atmosphere during snow and rain events. You can learn about the NOAA AK Snowfall Rate Product. During the Snow View Intensive Observing Period for Snow in February 2025, observers measure snowfall depth and liquid equivalent during a snow event.
Websites:
Arctic Rain on Snow Study Project - NSIDC
Cyrosphere - NASA Earthdata
Daily Snow Reports - Rutgers University
Landsat Collection Snow Cover Area - USGS
Mountain Rain or Snow
Classroom resource: Using snowpack data for inquiry, graphing and analysis
Podcasts:
The Eyes on Earth Podcast by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center explores topics on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science. The following episodes have been curated based on their alignment to the Snow View IOP webinar topics:
Eyes on Earth Episode 41 - Albedo
Eyes on Earth Episode 44 - Landsat Water Atlas
Eyes on Earth Episode 89 - EROS Workers and Weather
Eyes on Earth Episode 103 - EROS 50th: Alumni and Friends, Part 1
Eyes on Earth Episode 105 - Imagery Challenges of Alaska
Eyes on Earth Episode 116 - Landsat Images the Twilight Zone
Snow View IOP February 2025 Video Shorts by Peder Nelson, GLOBE Observer Land Cover Science Lead
Snow Observations to Improve Satellite Snowfall Rate Estimates with GLOBE February 2025: Carl Dierking, Satellite Liaison at Geographic Information Network of Alaska, describes how polar-orbiting satellites work and the type of information they collect, such as how much water is in the atmosphere during snow and rain events. You can learn about the NOAA AK Snowfall Rate Product. During the Snow View Intensive Observing Period for Snow in February 2025, observers measure snowfall depth and liquid equivalent during a snow event.
Websites:
Arctic Rain on Snow Study Project - NSIDC
Cyrosphere - NASA Earthdata
Daily Snow Reports - Rutgers University
Landsat Collection Snow Cover Area - USGS
Mountain Rain or Snow
Classroom resource: Using snowpack data for inquiry, graphing and analysis
Podcasts:
The Eyes on Earth Podcast by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center explores topics on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science. The following episodes have been curated based on their alignment to the Snow View IOP webinar topics:
Eyes on Earth Episode 41 - Albedo
Eyes on Earth Episode 44 - Landsat Water Atlas
Eyes on Earth Episode 89 - EROS Workers and Weather
Eyes on Earth Episode 103 - EROS 50th: Alumni and Friends, Part 1
Eyes on Earth Episode 105 - Imagery Challenges of Alaska
Eyes on Earth Episode 116 - Landsat Images the Twilight Zone