The GLOBE Program

As part of our 2025 Annual Meeting, we celebrated GLOBE’s 30th anniversary by unveiling a GLOBE community poem! Through personal expression and creative writing, contributors shared how GLOBE has impacted people, advanced science, and strengthened communities around the world.…

We’d like to congratulate Dr. Magdalena Waleska Aldana Segura, a physics professor at Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and Universidad Galileo, and GLOBE Guatemala educator and collaborator, for being named a Global Spotlight Member by the American Physical Society (APS) in…

NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite can do a lot more than its name suggests! In a new study, scientists used ICESat-2 data, algorithms, and machine learning to measure the seafloor down as far as 130 feet beneath the waves. 🌊 go.nasa.gov/4m1Dft7

Farmers feed the world, and NISAR is here to help. 🛰️🌾 The satellite will monitor soil moisture, how crops are growing, and the effects of drought to help farmers make informed decisions all season long. NISAR is scheduled to launch no earlier than July 30. Stay tuned!

We are excited to announce that the GLOBE Program has connected with the wider meteorological community through a newly established connection with the NOAA Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS). MADIS is a comprehensive system that passes data through various…

During the 2025 GLOBE Annual Meeting, we recognized GLOBE members who impacted communities by expanding knowledge of GLOBE protocols, data analysis, and #EarthSystemScience. 👏Please join us in congratulating the awardees! globe.gov/news-events/gl…

#DYK that GLOBE welcomed 16,489 new volunteer #CitizenScientists between May 2024 and April 2025? Find out more about this milestone and other achievements in our recently released 2024–25 Annual Review: globe.gov/documents/1015…

Proposals are currently being accepted from U.S. schools, museums & community youth organizations (working individually or together) to host an amateur radio contact with an astronaut aboard the @Space_Station between Jan. 1 & June 30, 2026.🧑‍🚀 Learn more: docs.google.com/document/d/1oA…

Launching next week: NISAR 🚀 The joint @NASA-@ISRO mission will track movements of Earth’s land and ice surfaces in high resolution. NISAR is scheduled to launch no earlier than July 30. 💡Here are five things you need to know: go.nasa.gov/4kSSG5E

In June, 50 students at Camp Young in Chesapeake, Virginia, USA swapped their usual summer routines for microscopes! The @NASA eClips team from the National Institute of Aerospace Center for Integrative #STEM Education (NIA-CISE) led two engaging lessons focused on…

As you may know, the @NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, Mission is an integral part of the GLOBE Program, as it has observed billions of Earth’s tree heights from space. This allows GLOBE participants to compare and study ICESat-2’s space-based tree…

Let’s take a moment to congratulate and celebrate eight GLOBE countries celebrating anniversaries this month! 🥳

LIVE: We're giving a preview of the upcoming NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission, the most advanced Earth-observing radar satellite we've ever launched. Tune in to the news conference and share your questions for the team with #AskNISAR: x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Join GLOBE and the @NASA Disaster Response Coordination System TODAY at 1 pm ET to learn all about the NASA Response Mappers data request, and how your GLOBE Observer land cover photos can help strengthen emergency response across the southeastern United States. Register:…

NISAR is preparing for launch 🚀 On Monday, July 21, NASA and NISAR project leadership will preview this upcoming @NASA-@ISRO mission, which will use powerful radar to study Earth's land and ice surfaces. Tune in at 9am PT/12pm ET: youtube.com/live/sLjvAmK_s…

Rainforests. Volcanoes. Arctic tundra. 🌍 From wildfire damage and volcanic eruptions to forest regrowth, NISAR will reveal how our planet's surface is changing in even the smallest ways. The Earth-observing mission is set to launch soon: nisar.jpl.nasa.gov

Registration is open for the 2025 NASA #SpaceApps Challenge! 🌍🚀💫 Join the largest annual global hackathon, choose from 450+ Local Events, and use open data from #NASA & 14 Space Agency Partners. Register today: bit.ly/3TwZnzl

Angela Lee, an educator from Bayou View Middle School in Gulfport, Mississippi, first got involved with the GLOBE Program in 2020 when she attended a workshop led by GLOBE partner Donna Torres from the INFINITY Science Center. Since then, she has actively engaged her classroom in…

Do you live in the southeastern United States? The @NASA Disasters Response Coordination System (DRCS) needs YOUR help this hurricane season to track conditions on the ground before and after hurricanes. Join GLOBE and DRCS for a webinar July 21 at 1 pm ET to learn how you can…

Join us today, at 1:00 pm ET (17:00 UTC), for the next Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign webinar, "The State of Trees – July 2025. Lessons Learned from 30 Years of the GLOBE Program Annual Meeting: Participant Experiences of 30 Years of Tree Height and Land Cover…

Join us today at 12:00 pm ET (16:00 UTC) for the latest GLOBE Observer Connect Event. Come hear how our guest speakers Dr. Rusty Low, Dr. Di Yang, and Peder Nelson, and their collaborators are using AI to analyze GLOBE data and how GLOBE Observer uses AI to protect your privacy…