After spending a week at the SD Outdoor Campus – West participating in a GLOBE Train the Trainer Workshop, I am certified as a Trainer of the GLOBE Program.

Program Description: As a certified GLOBE Trainer, I am qualified to guide teacher training and related professional development activities in taking GLOBE environmental measurements, reporting data to the GLOBE database, and using GLOBE Mapping and Graphing utilities to visualize data. These activities will be pursued in the interest of achieving the objectives of the GLOBE Program mission to promote the teaching and learning of science enhance environmental literacy and stewardship, promote scientific discovery and inspire the next generation of global scientists.

About GLOBE:  The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program is an international science and education program that provides students and the public worldwide with the opportunity to participate in data collection and the scientific process, and contribute meaningfully to our understanding of the Earth system and global environment.  Announced by the U.S. Government on Earth Day in 1994, GLOBE launched its worldwide implementation in 1995.