Field Campaigns

Climate and Land Cover Project (CLC)

A project to involve students in short-term and long-term scientific studies focused on climate and land cover near their school and in comparisons with schools across the globe as a contribution to scientific research and modeling efforts of scientists.

Great Global Investigation of Climate (GGIC)

A project to involve students in short-term and long-term scientific studies focused on the relationship of temperature and precipitation with climate near their school and in comparisons with schools across the globe as a contribution to scientific research.

Phenology and Climate

A project to involve students in short-term and long-term scientific studies focused on the relationship between climate and the biosphere by collecting plant phenology, atmosphere, and soil measurements near their school and in comparison with schools across the globe.

Student Climate Research Campaign (SCRC)

The GLOBE Student Climate Research Campaign (SCRC) aims to engage students around the world in measuring, investigating, and understanding the climate system in their local communities and the world. Drawing on GLOBE protocols and data - and other important datasets - students take climate-related measurements and investigate research questions about climate during the two year campaign.

Investigation Topics

Atmosphere / Climate

GLOBE student data within the Atmosphere investigation aids scientific understanding of spatial gaps in air temperature and precipitation coverage by weather monitoring stations, important data on aerosols and surface ozone. In addition, atmospheric data play a critical role in the calibration of satellite instruments collecting data on, for example, clouds and aerosols.

Earth As a System

Understanding Earth as a system––Earth system science––requires a quantitative exploration of the connections between and among the critical parts of the system: Atmosphere, Cryosphere, Hydrosphere, Lithosphere/pedosphere, and Biosphere.

Hydrology

Water covers approximately 70 percent of the Earth's surface.

Land Cover/Biology

Land cover is a term used to describe what is on the ground or covering the land. Different terms are used to describe the differences seen when looking at the land and can be split into natural and developed areas

Soil

Soil makes up a thin layer known as the pedosphere and an important, yet very limited, natural resource which affects every part of the ecosystem. Soils hold nutrients and water for plants and animals. Soils also filter and clean water and can change the chemistry of water. Soils store and transfer heat and affect the temperature of the atmosphere.

Teaching and Learning Topics

Elementary GLOBE

Introduce K-4 students to the study of Earth System Science

GLOBE Across the Curriculum

Ways to include GLOBE in a variety of disciplines

User Support

Community Feedback Forum

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GLOBE Alumni

The GLOBE Alumni Organization is a strong network of students who have graduated from secondary school and have the desire and commitment to participate in the activities of the GLOBE Program at a higher level. These volunteers support and assist the GLOBE Partners in their country and their region to further engage GLOBE students in inquiry-based research opportunities.

GLOBE International Advisory Committee (GIAC)

The GIAC is an advisory body organized exclusively for the GLOBE Program whose purpose is to provide GLOBE Regional Consortia a formal mechanism for community input in the overall implementation, enhancement, and sustainability of the GLOBE Program. Members of the committee are elected by the countries/states in their region.

GLOBE Partners

GLOBE Partners (Country Coordinators and U.S. Partners) facilitate the implementation of GLOBE in their country or within a service area of their country. Partners recruit GLOBE schools, as well as provide training opportunities and mentoring activities for GLOBE teachers to promote the teaching and learning of science, enhance environmental literacy and stewardship, and promote scientific discovery.

GLOBE Trainers

GLOBE Trainers are certified to train teachers in various scientific protocols and educational learning activities.