GLOBE and the GLOBE Observer App in Alaska: Decades of Environmental Data and Learning

Speaker: Christina Buffington, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Join us for this month’s VAWS webinar to learn about the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program, which has been monitoring Earth’s environments through in situ ground-based data collection since 1995. Students, educators and researchers from over 125 countries participate in GLOBE and the data from GLOBE automated weather stations at schools and other learning organizations is being ingested into NOAA’s Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS). GLOBE data also align with NASA satellite missions like the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat2) Mission, and the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission. The Alaska GLOBE Partnership, led by Dr. Elena Bautista Sparrow since 1996, has engaged thousands of K-12, undergraduate and graduate students and educators in community centered climate change investigations and stewardship projects. This webinar shares an overview of the GLOBE program, celebrates recent GLOBE student projects in Alaska, and provides local and global opportunities to interact with GLOBE, including how to retrieve and visualize weather data.