NASA Student Climate Research Campaign Workshop Series

Join NASA’s Langley Research Center and the Virginia Air and Space Center for the Student Climate Research Campaign Workshop series. These free workshops for K-12 educators will take place at the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton, Va. Each workshop will provide approximately 5.5 hours of professional development.

Phenology and Climate — Feb. 18, 2012
This workshop will focus on phenology and climate, and introduce participants to the following Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment, or GLOBE, field campaigns: Great Global Investigation of Climate, and Climate and Land Cover Intensive Observing Period. Participants will become certified in green-up and green-down, budburst and temperature protocols.

Land Cover and Climate — March 17, 2012
This workshop will focus on land cover and climate, and will prepare participants for the next GLOBE Climate and Land Cover Intensive Observing Period field campaign. Participants will become certified in the following GLOBE protocols: biometry, land cover site and the Modified UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Classification scheme.

To register for the workshops and to learn more about the GLOBE program, visit http://science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/GLOBE/training-1.php.

Questions about the Student Climate Research Campaign Workshop Series should be directed Jessica Taylor at larc-globe-partner@lists.nasa.gov.