Data Access for our school . . . most measurements for participating Arkansas Schools 

Data Access for Hydro-thon . . . . most measurements for participating schools in United States

Data Access for 4-H Site. . . . most measurements for participating schools world-wide

Data Access for Norfork Passive Experimentation Site

1 K Measurements Day Celebration . . . . . GLOBE Info Briefing to School Board

50 K Measurements Day . . . . . Newspaper article recognition . . . . . . . . Aerosols Measuring

Look at our data graphs . . .NES Ozark Hydro-thon graphs . . . . . . . . Award Archive

250,000 measurements achieved on 14 January 2010, congratulations to Hannah Golden for entering this historic milestone data set

 

Chief Scientist's Honor Roll Atmosphere, Hydrology, Clouds, Advanced Atmosphere, for February 2009 - April 2009

Chief Scientist's Honor Roll, Earth System Science, and Climate , March 2008 - April 2009

 

Current DLOG datalogger graph . . . . . . . . GLOBE Honor Roll Listing (1999-now)
All 4 Dataloggers output

LISTING OF STUDY SITES * indicates sites with site photographs on-line

Atmosphere Site (School Location) (ATM-01)*
Automated Davis Vantage Pro Weather Station (School Location) (ATM-04) installed 14 Aug 2003. Li-ion transmitter battery replaced July 2005. Destroyed by lightning strike of 22 June 2006. Replaced with new Vantage Pro2 weather station and automated soil moisture hardware in August 2006
Soil Moisture * and Temperature, Budburst Sites, Land Cover Sites
Manual Soil Temperature at the Weather Station, discontinued Feb 2005
Soil Temperature datalogger (ATM-02) installed 15 May 2001, destroyed by lightning strike on10 May 2003. Two channel datalogger temporarily emplaced 13 May - 20 August 2003. Datalogger replaced with a new 4 channel instrument on 20 August 2003. Lightning strike of 22 June 2006 again destroyed this equipment which was replaced in August 2006. Lightning strike damaged sensors om 8 Jun 2007, all sensors calibrated/replaced 20 Nov 2007.
Soil Temperature datalogger (ATM-03) installed at Lake Norfork - Jordan Marina on 1 Nov 2003
Soil Temperature datalogger installed at Norfork Village WR Hydrology Site on 5 May 2002 - 24 April 2004. Relocated Norfork Villiage HOBO site (ATM-XX), proj. Dec 2005.
Soil Temperature datalogger installed School Nature Trail - Forest site (ATM-05), 1 August 2004. Rodents chewed through sensor leads July 2005, sensors partially replaced August 2005 pending complete replacement with new sensors. New HOBO datalogger installed August 2006. Forest cleared in vicinity of proposed septic ststem Jun - Jul 2007.
Air and Soil, Max-Min Digital Thermometer installed at Norfork Rebels 4-H meeting site (ATM-07) 20 Oct 2004
Soil Temperature datalogger installed at Norfork Rebels 4-H Club meeting site (ATM-05), 7 Nov 2004
Soil Temperature datalogger installed at Matney Knob (ATM-07), 8 April 2005 following approval of a Special Use Permit from the US Forest Service Office in Mountain View, AR.
Norfork Passive Irrigation Experiment (PIE) Max-Min Digital Thermometer Installed September 2005 (ATM-01) replaced due to defective soil lead on 1 May 2006. HOBO datalogger (ATM-02) installed Feb 2006, HOBO datalogger installed at Tallgrass field site (ATM-03) September 2006. Grazing cattle "ate" 50 cm depth soil temperature sensor lead 12 April 2007. Same fate destroyed all 4 soil moisture sensor leads during installation of Davis Weather station co-located with Tallgrass field site

Early "Easter" spring freeze in 2007 destroyed many species new leaves. Borings of select species made in May 2007 as a baseline for annual ring analysis by next year's students. Anecdotal evidence suggests that such a freeze has not happened here since the 1974 era. For a graph of the freezes diurnal datalogger records of several various local (map) site recordings, select the underlined link.

Phenology Sites . Bermuda Grass - Hickory - Post Oak - White Oak - Cherry - Silver Maple - Winged Sumac

Hydrology Sites
Jordan Dock at Lake Norfork , approximately 2 million acre-feet reservoir on the North Fork of the White River*
Jordan Marina water temperature 2 channel HOBO installed 1 March 2004
Mouth of the North Fork of the White River, Public Access Landing at the confluence of the two rivers
White River, Ferry Ramp across the river from the public access ramp
Big Creek, immediately upstream of the Arkansas Highway 201 Bridge*
Morton Creek, immediately upstream of the Arkansas Highway 201/341 Bridge*

Soil Characterization Sites
White River Bottomland, 1st floodplain out of bankfull on left descending bank ~5 km North of Norfork*
DZ's Upper Bottomland, 1st floodplain out of bankfull on left descending bank ~6 km North of Norfork
School Location, graded and levelled playground area east of elementary school adjacent to weather station
North Fork River Bottomland, 1st floodplain on the right descending bank upstream of confluence along Hwy 5
Grandma's Orchard in the Rio Grande Valley near Alamo, Texas
Nature Trail Soil Characterization Site (SCS) in the forest adjacent to school.

GLOBE is an educational program that enhances kids learning about their environment using scientific processes, measurements, experiments, and real-life examples from within our community and its locale. The students collect data on the environment and enter it into a global database over the Internet. From it they can access other student's data from around the world and compare it to their own.

Although primarily started as a scientific program, one can readily see opportunities to expand participation into such fields as mathematics and geography. Specific scientific protocols, focused upon the age and abilities of our students, allow them to examine our atmosphere, land cover, soils, hydrology, biology, and botany. The program includes an elementary introduction to Remote Sensing using Landsat satellite data from a photograph of a15x15 kilometer (9x9 mile) area centered on our school. From it students can perform ground-truth validation of pixel data and get a macro scale view of how Norfork fits into the rest of our earth's ecology. The opportunity also exists for high school students to manipulate the computer image of the Landsat data file using multi-spectral software to observe land use changes, the spread of urbanization, and other large-scale, man-made, adaptations of nature.

Teachers from both Norfork Elementary and High School have attended a methodology workshop and have been certified in the GLOBE scientific protocols. A large amount of scientific equipment was presented to the school so that standardized scientific data could be collected by our students. Finally, several sets of scientific software were donated for our student's use.

For more information on the GLOBE Program contact the school or their principals. Click here for a listing of GLOBE schools in Arkansas. Click here for a local map of participating schools

Practical Exercise 1 (Using a GPS Receiver to find Site Coordinates)

Practical Exercise 2 (Testing for Dissolved Oxygen in water)

Practical Exercise 3 (Testing for Total Alkalinity in water)

Practical Exercise 4 (Using a Max - Min Thermometer) Requires Shockwave Plug-in

Practical Exercise 5 (Land Cover Classification using excerpts of the GLOBE MUC Table) Norfork MUC

 

Student Access Steps	North Arrow and GLOBE Benchmark

Suggested modifications to soil thermometer to enhance reliability of measurements, prevent accidental injury, and protect the thermometer from misuse. Drawing measurements may vary according to the thermometer being used.

To allow for an exact drilling of a hole in the center of the mop handle, one might fabricate a drill press jig similar to this if no machinist vice or centering clamp is available.

Last modified - 15 May 2011