GLOBE Teams

Jump to:  Why Teams?  -- Join a Team --  Leave a Team  --  Create a Team  --  Manage a Team  --  Invite People to Join a Private Team

Did you know you can create or join a team to do GLOBE with a group? A GLOBE Team is a group of scientific observers working together as an organization. Teams can be used to set up a competition, coordinate a community’s data collection efforts, support an educational or corporate initiative, or simply enable a group of people to work together. Anyone can form or join a GLOBE team.

Teams can be open or private. Anyone can join an open team. The team manager must invite participants to join a private team.

Every team has a team page on the GLOBE website. To see your team’s page, go to GLOBE Teams, then select “Join a Team.” You can search for your team’s name or scroll through the list. Click on your team’s name.

The team page includes a summary of how many members are on the team (including screen names), how much data the team has collected, and links to the data collected. 

Why Teams?

Teams for Individuals

A team is a good way for a group of individuals to work together for a common end. You may want to collect data as an extended family to support a student working on a science project or as members of a community concerned about a particular issue such as mosquito habitats or land cover change. 

Teams for Informal Educators

The team tool can be used to track engagement or participation in your programs. You will be able to see how many people join the team, and how many use GLOBE to take observations. You can create teams to manage a competition. Teams could be part of a corporate initiative or a volunteer program to foster environmental data collection focused on a particular community's needs. Please contact us if you have questions about teams.

Teams for Schools

Want your students or their families to contribute data measurements to your school? You can create a GLOBE Team for your school and invite other educators and families to join (see Invite People to Join a Private Team). From that time on, any data they enter with GLOBE Observer will be added to your school’s measurements!

Educators can also use GLOBE guest accounts (available on your MyPage) which can be used to login to GLOBE Observer and enter data for your school.

Teams for Colleges and Universities

If you use GLOBE with your undergraduate students or pre-service educators, you can create a Team to track their participation. Have your students create a GLOBE account and then invite them to your team. You will be able to see the data they upload through GLOBE.

Teams for Partnerships

Partnerships can create a Team and invite the educators in their network to join. When holding a GLOBE training, have the participants join your team. This way you will be able to track their engagement with GLOBE data entry during the training as well as when they bring GLOBE back to their school or organization. 

Join a team

Join a team on the GLOBE Observer app:

1. Click on the gray bar or gear icon along the top of the app to open the settings page
2. Select “Find a GLOBE Team”
3. A complete list of GLOBE teams will appear. You may search for a name by typing in the Team Name field or narrow the team list to a particular country and open or private teams. Click Apply Filter once you’ve entered your search terms. To learn more about a team, simply tap on the team name to see the team page
4. Select the team you want to join, the tap “join.”
5. If the team is open, you will immediately be joined to the team. If it is private, you will be prompted to enter the referral code provided to you by the team manager before you are added to the team.

Join a team on the GLOBE website:

1. Sign in to the GLOBE website using your GLOBE user name and password
2. Go to the GLOBE Teams page
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click “Join a GLOBE Team.” 
4. A complete list of GLOBE teams will appear. You may search for a name by selecting “filter,” and then typing in the Team Name field or narrow the team list to a particular country and open or private teams. Click Apply Filter once you’ve entered your search terms.
5. Click on the team name to go to the team page. Click “Join Team” in the upper right corner of the screen
6. If the team is open, you will immediately be joined to the team. If it is private, you will be prompted to enter the referral code provided to you by the team manager before you are added to the team.

You may join as many teams as you like. All of the data you collect will be counted in the total for every team you are on. To see which teams you are on, login to the GLOBE website. Click on “Go to” in the top white bar. You will see a list of My Organizations that will include the teams you have joined.

Leave a Team

To leave a GLOBE team, log in to the GLOBE website. Click on the small white box in the upper left corner. Your team will be listed under Go To: My Organizations. Select the team you want to leave. The team page will load. Select “leave team” from the top right corner of the page.

Create a team

Anyone can create a GLOBE team, and you can create and manage as many teams as you like. To create a team in the GLOBE Observer app:

1. Click on the gray bar or gear icon along the top of the app to open the settings page
2. Select Create a GLOBE Team
3. Enter a team name in English. All team names are screened. If potentially offensive terms are used, the team name will be rejected. Please try again with a different name.
4. Select your country and, if you choose, your city and zip code. This information will be public on the GLOBE Teams page.
5. You will receive an email confirming that you successfully created a team.  Your confirmation email will include information about how to manage your team

To create a team on the GLOBE website:

1. Sign in to the GLOBE website using your GLOBE user name and password
2. Go to the GLOBE Teams page
3. Click "Create a GLOBE Team"
4. Enter a team name in English. All team names are screened. If potentially offensive terms are used, the team name will be rejected. Please try again with a different name.
5. Select your country and, if you choose, your city and zip code. This information will be public on the GLOBE Teams page.
6. You will receive an email confirming that you successfully created a team.  Your confirmation email will include information about how to manage your team.

Manage a team

To manage your team, log in to the GLOBE website. Click on the small white box in the upper left corner. Your team will be listed under Go To: My Organizations.  Select the team name to open your team page. You should see an option to manage the team in the upper left corner of the team page. When you click manage team, a dialogue box will open that contains all of the options for managing your team.

Under the Info tab, you can change your team name or location. You can also deactivate the team.

Under the Organization Type, you can make the team private, public, or closed. Your team will be set up as a private team unless you change it. A closed team does not allow new members to join, so only select this option if you don’t intend to expand your team.

Under the Members tab, you can see who had joined your team. You can remove people from your team (select the trash can icon), and you can pass control of the team to another member of the team. If you select “contact,” that email address will be visible on the team page as a point of contact for the team.

Invite People to Join a Private Team

To invite people to join a private team, the team manager must provide the team’s referral code. Log in to the GLOBE website and navigate to your team landing page. You can find your team landing page from the Find a GLOBE Team page by clicking “open filter by” and entering the team name in the search field. Select the team from the list. Alternatively, click on the small white box in the upper left corner. Your team will be listed under Go to: My Organizations. Select the team name to open your team page. The team’s referral code will be below the team name and will only be visible if you are logged in to the website. Provide that code to anyone you wish to invite to join your team.