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05/20/2025
GLOBE Observer and April's Million Acts of Science
The GLOBE community contributed to the success of SciStarter's Million Acts of Science challenge through observations using the GLOBE Observer app in April.  >>

04/23/2025
Impacts of the GLOBE Observer App 2016-2025
The GLOBE Program recently celebrated its 30th Anniversary on Earth Day, 22 April 2025. Ten years ago, work began to develop the GLOBE Observer app, and it formally launched in 2016 with the first tool, Clouds. Read more about our accomplishments from the last nearly ten years.  >>

03/11/2025
The Mosquito’s Story and You
As winter gives way to spring in the Northern Hemisphere, mosquitoes will start to emerge. We ask GLOBE volunteers everywhere to track the presence of mosquito larvae in standing water to identify the start of the season in your community. By doing so during the month of April (citizen science month), you can also contribute to SciStarter’s Million Acts of Science.  >>

01/14/2025
New GLOBE Camp Programming Guides!
GLOBE is going to camp! GLOBE is pleased to offer a new resource guide that provides camp educators with activities and programming ideas built on GLOBE Observer. The new guide will help campers monitor the conditions of clouds, water, and plants, to study change over time.  >>

07/15/2024
GLOBE Observer Connect Recordings
We are not holding a GLOBE Observer Connect for July 2024, but we encourage you to take the opportunity to view available recordings of the prior sessions.  >>

05/07/2024
Abandoned Backyard Pools Pose Mosquito Risks
Mitigation of standing water is an important action to protect communities from mosquito bites and the pathogens they carry.  >>

12/29/2023
GLOBE at AGU
The GLOBE Program had a strong presence at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, held from 11 December to 15 December in San Francisco, California, USA. Nearly thirty posters or presentations referenced GLOBE, including some student posters that will be presented virtually in January.  >>

10/31/2023
Student Interns Publish GLOBE Research
When you submit data to GLOBE through the GLOBE Observer app, it goes to a public database where your observations are available for anyone worldwide to do research. Those researchers include students such as Christopher Sun, Jay Nimbalkar, and Ravnoor Bedi.  >>

08/23/2023
GLOBE Observer Data Quality: Updating Quality Flags for a Fresh Assessment
Building off of Amos et al. (2020)’s work, NASA intern Jessica Mo helped generate and implement quality checks for data submitted through GLOBE Observer’s citizen science protocols. Read on to learn what Jessica discovered through her analysis.  >>

07/31/2023
GLOBE Annual Meeting 2023
The GLOBE Annual Meeting took place in Denver, Colorado, USA from 17-20 July, and showcased a variety of topics and presentations by GLOBE community members and keynote speakers.  >>