NASA NASA
Earth Observatory Earth Observatory
Search Icon
NASA Earth Observatory

Earth Matters

You Better Beleaf it: NASA GLOBE Program to Host 2021 Trees Community Challenge

April 21st, 2021 by Globe Observer

Through May 15, 2021, the GLOBE Program is hosting the 2021 Trees Community Challenge, a project aimed at making science better together by encouraging participants to collect data and learn about trees.

Using the Trees Challenge Activity Tracker, participants can pick and choose activities – or complete all of them – to become members of the NASA citizen science community. Activities include taking a tree height observation, writing a tree poem, and sharing stories about trees that are special to you on social media

Trees are diverse and tree height can tell us a lot about Earth’s ecosystems. Satellites and ground-based measurements are used to track tree growth, monitor how well an ecosystem supports trees, and estimate how much carbon is stored by trees. The GLOBE community encourages #CitizenScientists to use the GLOBE Observer app to take tree height measurements with their smartphones.

Read more about the challenge and how to participate.

Tags: , ,

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 21st, 2021 at 2:24 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “You Better Beleaf it: NASA GLOBE Program to Host 2021 Trees Community Challenge”

  1. Colleen Cole says:
    May 4, 2021 at 10:36 am

    I have a Black Locust that is just budding out and I am so excited. When I first stated observing this tree four years ago I was told it was a Buckthorn. I wanted it out, out out!! Then it bloomed two years ago and I fell in love with what was not a Buckthorn, but a Black Locust. I went to the Yale University site for trees and was so very impressed with the history of this tree that I could not believe my luck in not finding a tree cutter!!!

Subscribe