06 August 2004

Doing science with GLOBE

At their recent annual meeting in Boulder, Colorado (25-30 July 2004), GLOBE principal investigators, scientists, educators and collaborators presented dozens of papers about progress in the many measurement protocols.

GLOBE is now 10 years old. The emphasis of the meeting was the next decade of GLOBE.

Attendees came from many countries, including Trinidad, Tobago, Benin, Jordan, Bahrain, the United Kingdom, India, Cameroon, Canada, Dominican Republic, France, Croatia, Iceland, Spain, Egypt, Estonia, Norway, Thailand, Germany, New Zealand, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Hungary, Ghana, Japan, Madagascar, Denmark, Russia and the United States.

Papers covered many topics in practical environmental monotoring. While GLOBE was originally designed for students, some GLOBE protocols are soliciting citizen scientists. And citizen scientists are free to use any or all of the GLOBE protocols in their own environmental observation programs.

For information about the GLOBE protocols, see the GLOBE protocols page. The abstracts of papers presented at the 2004 GLOBE conference are available here.

Forrest M. Mims III