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On Saturday morning, with my morning coffee I look at the trees lining the front of my property and feel relaxed.\u00a0 Something about the little wooded area just seems to feel right.\u00a0 So, when I read about the Globe Observer: Trees project being presented by SciStarter.\u00a0 I thought, why not trees!\u00a0 We all have some near us even in the city.<\/p>\n
Citizen Scientists this project is for you!\u00a0\u00a0 NASA\u2019s and the Global project is this – Healthy forests play a crucial role in Earth\u2019s ecosystem as growing trees take up carbon from the atmosphere. NASA satellites and airborne missions study forests to see how carbon moves through ecosystems. Adding in height measurements to more general observations of land cover gives a more complete, three-dimensional portrait of the ecosystem. Scientists need that third dimension to calculate how much carbon is stored in a tree or in a forest. The GLOBE Observer: Trees tool allows citizen scientists to help investigate by using their smartphone to measure tree height. With the tool, observers record tree height by tilting their phone up and down to align the screen with the tree\u2019s top branch and base, and pace off the distance to the tree; the app does the rest to calculate the tree\u2019s height.<\/p>\n
To get started:\u00a0 Sign up or Log in to SciStarter. Your free account, while not required, enables your participation to be credited on your SciStarter Dashboard.<\/p>\n
Click the\u00a0Get Started\/Visit Project’s Website\u00a0button on this page. You will be directed to the project’s website or app and invited to create a project account there.<\/p>\n
New and interested users are encouraged to go to\u00a0SciStarter.org\/NASA<\/a>\u00a0to learn more and receive step-by-step instructions. You can visit\u00a0https:\/\/observer.globe.gov<\/a>\u00a0to learn more about GLOBE Observer and the Trees tool. Especially for educators, the main GLOBE Program can be found at\u00a0http:\/\/www.globe.gov<\/a>.<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Saturday morning, with my morning coffee I look at the trees lining the front of my property and feel relaxed.\u00a0 Something about the little wooded area just seems to feel right.\u00a0 So, when I read about the Globe Observer: Trees project being presented by SciStarter.\u00a0 I thought, why not trees!\u00a0 We all have some… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2969,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2969"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16154,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16148\/revisions\/16154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}