NASA GLOBE Program Celebrates 30th Anniversary
EDC is marking the 30th anniversary of NASA’s Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program, a citizen-science effort and science education program that advances understanding of the Earth through shared data collection and analysis. Today, the GLOBE Program’s open-source database includes over a quarter billion data points and is used by research scientists and students around the world.
As part of the anniversary celebration, the GLOBE Implementation Office is broadcasting a special program on April 22, at 12 p.m. ET, on its YouTube channel. GLOBE Program participants will contribute to a GLOBE poem celebrating GLOBE’s impact on science and join a data challenge. The GLOBE Implementation Office is also using the anniversary to encourage new citizen scientists around the world to download the GLOBE app and begin contributing scientific data from within their communities.
The GLOBE Program was launched on April 22, 1995. At its outset, GLOBE collected scientific data readings from people in 30 participating countries. The program has grown significantly in the past three decades, with students, amateur scientists, and researchers from 127 countries submitting readings and gathering data. For learners of all ages, the program helps build important career readiness and success skills, such as critical thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, data collection and analysis, persistence, and accountability.
In partnership with City University of New York, EDC has led the GLOBE Implementation Office since 2024. EDC supports ongoing participation in the GLOBE Program by coordinating initiatives that foster learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement among research scientists, educators, students, and citizen scientists.
“EDC is so proud of our involvement in the GLOBE Program,” says Rebecca Lewis, EDC director of the GLOBE Implementation Office. “When GLOBE participants gather data, they contribute to our knowledge of the world around us, while developing career skills that prepare them for the future or help them develop professionally now.”
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