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| 2006 March |
What does it mean to REALLY watch the stars? Come join The GLOBE Program for a star-hunting party - GLOBE at Night! March 22 - 31, 2006.
Visit www.globe.gov/globeatnight
Download the GLOBE at Night Activity Packet
Choose a clear night during the week of March 22-29, 2006
Find the constellation Orion
Compare what you see to the Magnitude Charts
Report your observations on our website
Sign up for the GLOBE at Night mailing list to receive the results of this international event!
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| 2003 August |
- Introducing new 2003 Teacher's Guide Protocols
The following Teacher's Guide chapters have new protocols and
associated data entry pages (see the Teacher's Guide for the complete
protocol description and field guides for each of these):
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| 2003 August |
- Announcing the 2003 Teacher's Guide
GLOBE is pleased to announce the release of the 2003 version of the
Teacher's Guide. This new version incorporates the improvements in
teacher and student support introduced in the Atmosphere and
GPS Chapters of the 2002 Guide throughout. These improvements
include the addition of Lab Guides and Field Guides to
guide you through the steps involved in taking the measurements, and
Looking at the Data sections to help you analyze your data.
In addition, many of the chapters have new and / or revised protocols.
The following protocols have had important revisions: pH,
Barometric Pressure, Hydrology, and Land Cover.
The new protocols include Water Vapor and
Surface Temperature.
Read more...
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| 2003 May |
- Contrails
Those of you submitting cloud type and cloud cover observations will
notice a change to the data entry form. GLOBE has added observation
and reporting of contrails to the cloud protocol. This will help
researchers who are studying the occurrence of contrails and their
possible effect on Earth's climate.
Read more...
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| 2003 March |
- New protocol for collecting atmospheric data using Davis
automated weather stations
GLOBE is pleased to announce the release of a
new protocol
for the collection of atmospheric measurements using Davis automated
weather stations. With the addition of this optional protocol, there
will be new ways to collect GLOBE data and new types of GLOBE data
collected. Read more...
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| 2002 November |
- THANKS FOR ALL THE DATA!
To the almost 2000 schools that have collected Hydrology measurements -
Thank you for all the data you have collected over the last seven years.
There are currently over 770,000 Hydrology measurements in the GLOBE
database. Keep up the good work!
Read more...
- Soil Particle Density Protocol Now Available
GLOBE students can now obtain a more complete picture of their soil
samples. The new
Soil Particle Density Protocol
complements the
Bulk Density Protocol
and with the combination, students can measure soil porosity -- the
percentage of empty space in a soil that can be occupied by air and
water.
Read more...
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| 2002 September |
- New Digital Thermometer Techniques
GLOBE is pleased to announce the addition to the GLOBE protocols of
new air temperature measurement techniques using digital max/min
thermometers. These instruments offer several advantages over the
existing horseshoe-shaped max/min thermometers. They have digital
displays that are more easily read by students to the tenth of a
degree. They are available with a second temperature sensor used for
measuring soil temperature. The digital thermometers contain no mercury,
so any concerns along those lines are eliminated.
Read more...
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| 2002 June |
- Error message Help
"I think I filled out everything correctly but I still get an error message."
How often does this cross your mind when you fill out a Data Entry page? Now we
provide you with additional information on what to do if you get an error message.
Click here if you would like to see
the additional information now.
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| 2002 February |
- Hummingbirds, Interesting Links and Question Marks
A new special measurement protocol has come online, Observing
Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds. It is a fun and simple protocol
to do. Just look under the Phenology button to go to it.
On the pages that you now receive when you successfully submit data
using the Data Entry web pages, you will get some hyper links
directing you to other pages on the GLOBE web site that are related to
the protocol you entered data for.
Also you may have noticed some
 on
the Data Entry pages. If you click these you will be directed to
help information for the particular protocol you are doing.
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| 2001 September |
- More Than A Smiley Face
On the page that you will now receive when you successfully submit data
using the 1-Day Atmosphere Data entry page, you will get some graphs
showing your data. Click on the graphs to go directly into the
visualization system for the particular data set shown. Use these graphs to
check your data and see what's happening with the atmosphere.
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| 2001 July |
- On July 2, 2001, some changes were made to the Data Entry pages. When you
click on any of the data entry links below, you will be asked to enter
measurement time and study site location only. When you click "Proceed" at
the bottom of this page, a second page will appear for you to enter your
data. Virtually no changes have been made to this second page.
For more information,
click here
to read the special announcement.
- The Soil Characterization Particle Size Distribution Protocol given
in the 1996 GLOBE Teacher's Guide was superceded in the 1997 GLOBE II
Teacher's Guide. Data obtained using the old protocol will no longer
be accepted. If you are still using this method, please switch to the
preferred, current hydrometer method now.
- The Depth and/or Soil Moisture Sensor (e.g. Gypsum) Protocol data
entry page has been split into two separate data entry pages (Depth
Protocol and Soil Moisture Sensor Protocol). Please use the
appropriate data entry page.
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| 2001 April |
- The Atmosphere One and Seven Day Data Entry pages have some new added
features to make filling out the forms easier.
- One can now fill out the snowfall and snowpack with just a mouse
click if there is no snowfall to report.
- The metadata / comments boxes are now scrollable making any text
entered easier to re-read
- The input field names (e.g. year, month, and day) are now displayed on
both the right-side of the page and the left-side for the
Atmosphere: Seven Days Data Entry page.
- The Soil Temperature Protocol Data Entry page has changed.
One can now enter time to the minute instead of rounded to every 10 minutes.
- The Green-up / Green-down Phenology data entry pages are now on-line. Remember to define your green-up / green-down study site before entering data. For more information on this protocol, see the
GLOBE Teacher's Guide.
- To eliminate confusion for people who have not studied the Land Cover
protocol yet, the MUC data entry section has been removed from all other
protocols.
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| 2001 February |
- The Green-up / Green-down Phenology data entry pages are now
on-line. Remember to define your green-up / green-down study site
before entering data. For more information on this protocol, see the
GLOBE Teacher's Guide.
- GLOBE now is using decimal degrees for latitude and longitude to
define a site. Simply set GPS receivers to read out in decimal degrees
instead of degrees and decimal minutes, an easy change for all of us.
Please report latitude and longitude to four decimal places. NO ONE
NEED CHANGE ANY DATA ALREADY REPORTED TO GLOBE.
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| 2000 September |
- New Temperature checks
- The time of all measurements is now taken to at least the minute.
- 3 new Atmospheric protocols have been added to the GLOBE program,
they are Aerosols, Ozone, and Humidity.
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