Park ridge GLOBE Workshop

Assignment #2 Visit the protocols page

Please check out the following GLOBE protocols that are available for you and your students. As a GLOBE trainer we found that it was difficult to cover all of them in a 6 day workshop.

Please check them out and let me know which ones that might fit into your program.

You can find them by going to:

If you do all of the above, you should come to the protocols page. If that doesn't work, scroll down to the bottom of this page, or click here.

Assignment #3

Go to the GLOBE web site http://www.globe.gov/ Click GLOBE Schools Log-in
You will get a log in BOX. Log in with your school ID and pass word. A page should come up with "Welcome St Paul of the Cross" at the top . Go down to GLOBE DATA and select Data Entry

on the next page select Practice Data Entry That will take you to a page with the following message at the top:

Attention! This is the GLOBE Training Web Site intended for use at GLOBE workshops or to practice GLOBE data entry.

then MOUSE OVER Site Definition and click on
Define, Edit or Update a Site

select Define a New Site

First you must define a site, before you can send data, so that GLOBE knows where the data is coming from. I just defined an atmospheric site for St Paul called "WTS" you may use that site to enter atmospheric data like clouds or temperature. (This"WTS" site may be deleted on Saturday, because GLOBE usually dumps practice data every week)

I would like everybody to Define a site and give it any name except WTS.
Once you have defined a site, you will get the following message:

Your input has passed system checks!

If you left something out, you will get an error message with instructions.

try to enter some practice data in your new site like;

Maximum Temperature 32c, Current 29c, and Minimum 15c
Cloud Cover "Scattered"
Cloud Types Cumulus, stratus cirrus
You can try the same things at Soil and Hydrology

Assignment #4 You will need the password to go along with the School User ID that I gave last week.

When you Define a site, you should use a date that precedes the date of your first data entry.

I am giving you temperature data for September 19 through the 23. So if you define your site with today's date, it will not accept the data from the 6th, 7th and 8th.

You can eliminate that problem by using September 18th as the date that your site was defined.

Here are some data that you can enter. Try entering it using the Integrated 7-Day method, starting on 9/17. The data base will not accept a minimum or maximum temperature if you didn't enter a current temperature on the previous day, you can try, but it will kick out the Min/Max for 9/17 if you didn't enter a date for 9/16. Try entering the following cloud data:

Date	Air Temp	Current	Maximum	Minimum	local time	Solar Noon	universal time	Soil Temp	Current	Maximum	Minimum
9/17/05	Air Temp	25	28.4	18.8	12:14 PM	17.46:57	17.14	Soil Temp	23.5	24.8	22.1
9/18/05	Air Temp	26.2	29.1	22.1	12:09 PM	17.46:57	17.09	Soil Temp	20.5	20.8	18.4
9/19/05	Air Temp	22.5	25.2	19.7	12:05 AM	17.46:36	17.05	Soil Temp	21.2	21.3	19.1
9/20/05	Air Temp	24.1	25.1	19.2	12:02 PM	17.46:14	17.02	Soil Temp	22.2	24.6	20.5
9/21/05	Air Temp	21.2	26.2	16.2	11:46 PM	17.45:53	16.36	Soil Temp	23.2	24.2	21.9
9/22/05	Air Temp	25.4	28.2	15.2	12:41 AM	17.45:32	17.41	Soil Temp	23.3	24.5	20.1
9/23/05	Air Temp	26.6	26.6	19.8	12:05 PM	17.45:11	17.05	Soil Temp	22.5	23.2	21.8

At 17:06 on September 17th, We had broken cloud cover, with Cumulonimbus and Nimbostratus clouds present. We had 2 short lived Contrails. you can make up cloud data for the other 6 days, since this is a practice site. We would never do that when you are entering real data. I will say this many times at the workshop, "No data is better than incorrect data"

When you enter the data correctly, you will get the following message:

Your input has passed system checks!

If you goof up, you will get a message telling you what is wrong. For example, if you enter a current temperature that is higher than your Max, it will let you know and you won't get a smile face until you correct it.

*These temperatures were taken with a Taylor digital Min/Max thermometer

Assignment #5 Now that you are a certified GLOBE School, log in and define your site, using the GPS coordinates that we acquired at the workshop. Start sending cloud data as soon as possible.

Links to past GLOBE Workshops

You will get Multispec Software at the workshop that will let you do all kinds of neat things with the image.

In September of 2003, the Naperville School District 203 formed a partnership with the GLOBE Program. We have performed Teacher workshops in the following places: