established in 1962, the gobabeb training and research centre sits at the edge of the namib dunes sea on the banks of the kuiseb river. mary seely is a naturalized namibian and a member of the station's management committee who has been working here since 1967. >> global science is going on throughout the world, and gobabeb is, of course, a sought-after location because it's thought to be quite isolated and not being influenced by a lot of industry and other human activity. [wind whistling] >> local topnaar communities, namibian scientists, and researchers from around the globe come here to gather data on how to live sustainably with our environment. miya kabajani and american scientist christine grummon collect climate data here for noaa, the united states' national oceanic and atmospheric administration. >> they have these monitoring sites all over the world, and the namib desert is a site where their sampling is done for carbon dioxide. >> the air sample from this high pole is stored in these bottles and sent back to noaa in colorado for analysis. the data is used by scientists lik