About
GLOBE Ireland is part of the NASA-supported international GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) Programme. In Ireland, the programme is coordinated by An Taisce - The National Trust of Ireland with support from the Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).GLOBE Ireland supports young citizen scientists (primary and secondary school level) engaging with outdoor citizen-science activities in their local area through teacher led citizen science campaigns and individual student led engagement with observations made via the GLOBE Observer App and GLOBE website.
GLOBE Ireland promotes solutions-oriented thinking and sustainable actions to protect and improve local environments.
Email:
globe@antaisce.org
Challenge Area Activities
Personal Skill:
Participants can build their STEAM skills through a combination of online training, engagement in taking environmental measurements outside, and recording data in an international database. Their observations are very important as they feed into an international database that helps scientists and educators to better understand our changing environment.
Community Involvement:
Be part of the solution! All observations are very important as they feed into an international community database that helps scientists and educators around the world to better understand our changing environment. These surface-based observations have been used for decades to better understand fundamental Earth system processes at local, regional, and global scale.
Participants can build their STEAM skills through a combination of online training, engagement in taking environmental measurements outside, and recording data in an international database. Their observations are very important as they feed into an international database that helps scientists and educators to better understand our changing environment.
Community Involvement:
Be part of the solution! All observations are very important as they feed into an international community database that helps scientists and educators around the world to better understand our changing environment. These surface-based observations have been used for decades to better understand fundamental Earth system processes at local, regional, and global scale.
Programme Breakdown
Participants can choose what measurements to take, some observations will take just 5-10 minutes (single observation) and others can take longer (30 minutes). Participants are welcome to take as many observations/measurements as they wish. Participants will learn how to record and submit their observations to the GLOBE database (via the GLOBE Observer App
or through the GLOBE website).
- Step 1: Download the GLOBE Observer App here: Get the App - GLOBE Observer - GLOBE.gov
- Step 2: Choose ‘Citizen Scientist’ account and register using your email address.
- Step 3: Choose a measurement protocol (activity). Tip: the Clouds protocol is a good place to start. Learn more by clicking here.
- Step 4: Follow the in-app instructions to make your observation and click submit at the end to send your observation to NASA.
