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2023 Highlights

During 2023 

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2022 Highlights

During 2022 we engaged 330 informal and formal educators and community members in many professional development workshops. Approximately 1,443 youth engaged in climate change learning using Arctic and Earth STEM Integrating GLOBE and NASA (SIGNs) activities and GLOBE methodologies and NASA assets. The Fresh Eyes on Ice project greatly expanded the use of GLOBE Observer Land Cover to track ice conditions of freshwater rivers for safety and flood prediction. GLOBE Grandma continued to develop eLearning programming for elementary youth.

We hosted the first ever Alaska GLOBE Student Research Symposium in Fairbanks on Earth Day, April 22. The symposium was the largest held in the history of the GLOBE Northwest region with 67 student representatives of 19 different youth groups or classes from 14 communities across the state. We revised the symposium review criteria to honor and elevate Indigenous values and knowledges.

Other firsts included an international undergraduate student from Thailand studying green-up in Alaska, and a high school student and a college student presenting their GLOBE investigations in posters as lead authors at the 2022 American Geophysical Union conference. The high school student began her GLOBE journey as a kindergartener studying water quality. The undergraduate student worked directly with the NASA Snow-Ex team to study snow and air quality using GLOBE protocols.

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2021 Partnership Activities

The UAF GLOBE Partnership conducted the following training workshops and courses:

  1. “Climate Change in my Community” course virtually again this year in Feb-May 2021 for 28 educators and community members, (GLOBE Tree Height, GLOBE Tree biomass- Carbon Cycling)
  2. Pre-service Teachers Training Workshops, Jan and Feb 2021, culturally responsive curriculum, inquiry and GLOBE clouds for 30 participants
  3. GLOBE Frost Tube Training  for a USGS scientist and elementary school teacher Aug - Sep 2021
  4. Birch (Kk’eeyh) Green-up Mini workshop for Homeschool Families, 16 participants
  5. Berry and GLOBE Snow monitoring training for educators & members of public Sept2020-May 2021, 18 participants
  6. GLOBE Snow and Land Cover Training for 18 educators and community members in the Fresh Eyes on Ice Project, Feb 2021
  7. Research Education on Air and Cardiovascular Health (REACH) and GLOBE Training (GLOBE Air temperature and Clouds) 2- day workshop, Aug 2021, 13 participants
  8. Kenai Peninsula and Chugach School Districts GLOBE training and teacher support, Aug-Oct, 2021, 15 educators
  9. GLOBE Bundles to Stimulate Research Questions workshop- This synchronous workshop and asynchronous activities trained an international audience on using GLOBE bundles, question formulation strategies and environmental justice themes to stimulate student research questions; 13 participants
  10. NABOS GLOBE Clouds Workshop for 3;-Trained Jon Pazol, PolarTREC teacher who joined the NABOS (Nansen and Amundsen Basins Observational System) research cruise on the Arctic Ocean and his substitute teacher and associate teacher
  11. Two Learning from K’keeyh (Birch) Science Camps for Youth delivered. Camp featured Athabascan values, guest Elders, guest scientists, crafts, Indigenous and GLOBE Tree Height, outdoor activities and Native drumming, dancing and singing. 

In 2021, students from Shishmaref, Alaska and Takotna, Alaska participated in the GLOBE IVSS. The Alaska GLOBE Partner supported them through a 5-week long “Dirty Snow” 365 SMART Academy program (Science, Mathematics, Art, Recreation and Technology). Participating GLOBE teacher and parent co-authored with the Alaska GLOBE Partner a poster for the 2021 AGU Fall Conference.

During Fall 2021, undergraduate students in Introduction to Watershed Management (NRM 370) participated in a fall semester course. All students submitted their work as student research reports in 2021 and four student groups participated in the 2022 GLOBE IVSS. To support the students, the Alaska GLOBE Partnership worked with the International Arctic Research Center GLOBE school to create student accounts for data entry and set up the NRM370 GLOBE team for tracking citizen science GLOBE Observer measurements.

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