Expanding the GLOBE Community to Your Community

While traditionally focused on K-12 classrooms, the NASA GLOBE Program can be implemented as a community-based citizen science program that can welcome the contributions of community members.

The work shared will describe the implementation of NASA GLOBE in partnership with a public library system in a rural setting. This type of partnership to foster informal science has shown great potential to allow access to both the scientific knowledge needed to collect data with high levels of efficacy as well as facilitating participation that helps address the spatial challenges of increasing environmental awareness in the under resourced regions that are often seen with rural communities.

As communities seek to understand ways that they can build resilience around a changing climate there is a need for a consistent knowledge source that is easily accessible. Public libraries can serve as a hub for this activity. Also, I am sure that you would agree that science is our most reliable system of gaining new knowledge and empowering community engagement. This is where the power of citizen science can be used as an effective way to garner this knowledge in the context that best fits the community. The Atmospheric

Examples of how NASA GLOBE technologies and protocols for atmospheric investigation were applied in a community-based setting as well as resources that were developed to support community members’ knowledge generation and metrics around the impact of the program will be shared.