GLOBE project

Why do we need GLOBE?

To solve global problems, we need global scientific understanding of local change.

On the need for GLOBE

To understand global changes in the Earth system, scientists must generalize globally from observations made locally and regionally.  In land change science, ecology, archaeology, anthropology and other disciplines in which field studies are costly and time consuming, observations are generally obtained by researchers working at disparate local and regional case study sites chosen for different reasons.  As a result, scientific understanding of global pattern, process and change in these disciplines tends to be based on non-statistical inferences made from observations collated and analyzed by informal methods.

GLOBE aims to transform global change science by enabling new scientific workflows based on statistically robust, globally relevant integration of local and regional observations using an online social-computational system. 

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