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A woman looks at a photo of a mosquito larva on a phone. She is sitting at a table with papers in front of her and a laptop by her side.
06/25/2025
GLOBE and Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence or AI is more than a buzz word: it can be a powerful tool and it is enhancing GLOBE for good. A recent paper summarized how AI is smoothing both how you submit GLOBE data and how scientists analyze GLOBE data. In particular, AI screens your photos the moment you submit them, and later, scientists are using AI image analysis to classify mosquito larvae or land cover in your photos.  >>

One Million Acts of Science congratulatory image, with a test tube filled up all the way to 1,000,000, a robot with a thought bubble saying congratulations, and fireworks in the background.
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.  >>

Hands holding phones with each of the landing screens for Clouds, Mosquito Habitat Mapper, Land Cover and Trees in front of backgrounds representing the data collected by each of the four tools.
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.  >>

The photo shows a woman kneeling with her back to the camera in front of a stack of discarded tires. Water is visible in one tire. She holds a large pipette (kitchen baster) filled with water in front of her eyes.
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.  >>

Three girls dressed in matching tan shirts stand around a tree. One girl is holding a clipboard with a paper data sheet, which shows a grid of images related to the health of the tree.
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.  >>

Images of observers collecting data about trees, walking on a rocky beach, and using solar viewing glasses to look a the sky, and the text GLOBE Observer Connect.
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.  >>

Ground-level photograph of an otherwise empty backyard pool with a large puddle of rainwater collecting in the bottom.
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.  >>

A row of people stand in front of a screen with the GLOBE Program logo on it.
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.  >>

A map of the contiguous United States showing increased mosquito populations across the country in 2050. The greatest increase is in Rocky Mountain States (Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico), parts of the Southeast (Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina), and sections of the Northeast (Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Rhode Island).
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.  >>

Intern Jessica Mo standing behind NASA logo sign.
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.  >>

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