GLOBE Hydrology Feedback
Welcome to the GLOBE Hydrology Feedback page.
One important job of the GLOBE Hydrology team is to provide feedback to each school that reports hydrology data. Our feedback comes in the form of a graph of the school's data, accompanied by written comments identifying trends, suggesting reasons for changes, and posing questions to the students.
This feedback serves at least two purposes. First, we hope that it will help students interpret their data and think about what causes the patterns in the data. Second, it is part of our quality control effort. We point out patterns that seem a little unusual, or which are unexplained. Students should then go back and check these data for correctness and to see if they can offer an explanation.
The graphs consist of precipitation, air and water temperatures, dissolved oxygen, alkalinity, electrical conductivity, and surface water pH. All graphs are updated on a monthly basis.
As of June 16, 1998, we have included written comments for nearly 400 of the approximately 1,000 schools that have reported hydrology data. We anticipate that the comments for each school will be revised at least annually. More frequent feedback will be given for those schools that frequently report most of the hydrology parameters. Feel free to contact us to follow up on these data and comments.
Roger Bales| Martha Conklin| Jean Morrill| Alex Leonard
