Articles of Interest

Launch of GLOBE in Maldives

GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program. GLOBE promotes and supports students, teachers and scientists to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment and the Earth System working in close partnership with NSF and NASA Earth System Science Projects.

It is an interagency program funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Mr. Richard Boucher releasing balloons at the GLOBE launch in May - Male', Maldives.

(NASA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), supported by the U.S. Department of State, and implemented through a cooperative agreement between NASA, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado and Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. GLOBE is a cooperative effort of schools in partnership with colleges and universities, state and local school systems, and non-government organizations. Internationally, GLOBE is a partnership between the United States and over 100 countries.

Visit www.globe.gov for further information. 

Click here to view the launch of GLOBE in Maldives - May 8, 2007.

The official launching of the GLOBE program in Maldives - May 8, 2007 at the Dharumavantha School.