2. GLOBE is a hands-on environmental science and education program involving students in primary and secondary schools throughout the world.

3. GLOBE Students Learn Science By Doing Science and Helping Scientists
GLOBE is a partnership among scientists, teachers and students
GLOBE involves students in collecting research quality environmental data
GLOBE improves student achievement in science and mathematics

4. Overview
Students conduct GLOBE activities under the guidance of GLOBE-trained teachers. These activities include:
Collecting environmental data using GLOBE instruments and procedures
Entering data in the GLOBE Data Archive using the Internet
Viewing data from worldwide GLOBE schools as tables, maps, and graphs
Doing science (student inquiry/research projects) using GLOBE data

5. GLOBE Status 97 Participating Countries
Over 150 US Partner Organizations
Providing Teacher Professional Development & Support
More than 11,000 Schools (8,000 US)
More than 19,000 Trained Teachers (11,000 US)
Hundreds of thousands of Students each year
15+ Research Groups Directly Involved
Data from over 7.5 million student measurements

6. GLOBE Protocols Protocols were chosen using the following criteria:
Data have research significance
Procedures can be done by primary, middle, and secondary school students
Equipment is affordable for US schools to purchase
Competitively selected science teams:
Committed to use at least some of each type of data
Cover broad area of Earth System Science
Atmosphere, Hydrology, Soil, Land Cover, Phenology

7. GLOBE Scientific Instruments
Functional or performance specifications
defined by science investigators
GLOBE identifies vendors who offer kits of instruments
Approximate cost for instruments in US:
$500 for Basic Protocols
$500 additional for Advanced Protocols

8. GLOBE Schools and Countries

9. How Many Data by Region

10. GLOBE Partnerships GLOBE is a world-wide partnership involving:
Scientists, teachers and students
Schools and communities
International and U.S. Partners
Federal, state, and local governments, NGOs, and academe

11. GLOBE Measurement Areas
Atmosphere/Climate
Hydrology/Water Quality
Soil
Land Cover
Phenology
Other

12. GLOBE Measurements ATMOSPHERE Cloud Cover & Type Aerosols
Barometric Pressure
Precipitation
Relative Humidity
Air Temperature
Ozone

13. GLOBE Measurements HYDROLOGY Transparency Surface Water Chemistry
Surface Water Temperature pH
Salinity or Conductivity dissolved oxygen
alkalinity
nitrate

14. Collecting Hydrology Data

15. GLOBE HYDROLOGY INVESTIGATION
Why Take Hydrology Measurements?
Professional water quality monitoring stations tend to sample major water bodies.
GLOBE Hydrology sites provide a good representation of small water bodies.
GLOBE Hydrology data provide an important resource for understanding seasonal, inter-annual, and long-term water quality trends worldwide.
GLOBE data are well suited for watershed-level studies.

16. GLOBE HYDROLOGY INVESTIGATION
How are the GLOBE Hydrology data being used?
The ever increasing GLOBE data base allows:
Critical examination of the data for QA/QC purposes
Evaluation of methods, techniques, and equipment used
Use of data in research projects and publications

17. GLOBE HYDROLOGY INVESTIGATION
GLOBE Hydrology QA/QC
A rigorous Quality Control/Quality Assurance plan is already in place:
Teachers’ Guide (protocols, instrument specifications)
Teacher training
Upon entry, the data are subjected to range checks
GLOBE students and teachers are encouraged to performed quality control checks of their measurements
Principal Investigators are ultimately responsible for the overall data quality of their investigation

18. GLOBE HYDROLOGY INVESTIGATION
GLOBE Hydrology QA/QC
Evaluation of equipment and techniques
Alkalinity test kit
Calculator-based Laboratories
(CBLs)
pH paper and meter

19. GLOBE Measurements SOIL Soil Temperature Soil Moisture
Soil Characterization
structure
color
consistence
texture & particle size
rocks, roots, carbonates pH
porosity
fertility
Infiltration (Optional)

20. GLOBE Measurements LAND COVER Classification using MUC
Manual Mapping
Unsupervised Clustering Mapping
Land Cover Change
Land Cover Sites
Biometry
Classification using MUC
Mapping using Landsat
15 km x 15 km scenes
Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5

21. Remote Sensing: Landsat Image Analysis
In support of the GLOBE Landover investigations, we provide landsat thematic mapper images to each school of their surrounding area and the Multispec remote sensing image analysis software.
Learn how remote sensing images are created and how they are used
Learn how different landcover types in their local area reflect energy differently in each of the landsat channels
Provide valuable ground truth data for researchers

22. GLOBE and GIS Land Cover
GLOBE data can also be downloaded in to GIS packages for analysis and integration with other data sets/layers
GLOBE has partnerships with ESRI and Intergraph to provide software free of charge to all GLOBE schools, including examples of how to download and use GLOBE data in GIS
Land Cover

23. GLOBE Measurements Phenology Green-Up Green-Down Budburst (Special)
Lilacs (Special)
Hummingbirds (Special)

24. Watershed Study Using GLOBE
Land Cover
- LandSat based
maps
Hydrology
- water quality
Microclimate
- temperature
- precipitation
Soil
- characterization
- moisture
- infiltration
Watershed Study Using GLOBE
kilometers
List of Implementation Strategies:
Teaching of Protocols to make environmental measurements
Types of data:
Comprehensive watershed studies
Hazel Run Watershed, Virginia