About Us

Globes, mapping and teaching are our passion!

Real World Globes is a team of professionals cumulatively bringing to the enterprise over 100 years of experience in mapping, teaching, remote sensing and business.

Our products are designed to facilitate fun and rewarding learning experiences by employing hands-on visual and spatial learning techniques. These techniques complement and augment typical classroom instruction and enable breakthroughs in understanding and learning.

We stand behind our products with knowledgeable customer service; please do not hesitate to contact us with questions about our visual and spatial learning products.

  • Charles Dichiera

    Charles Dichiera

    Charles “Chuck” Dichiera is an educator, mathematician, author, film maker, consultant, researcher and developer. For 34 years he taught math in the public school system, including 20 years…

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  • Doug Rogers

    Doug Rogers

    Great guy who keeps all of us organized and is the visionary brain behind Real World Globes.

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  • Joe Roubal

    Joe Roubal

    Joe is a professional GIS cartographer and self-taught globe maker who has been practicing this ancient art for over 30 years. After studying boat building, cartography and computer…

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  • Ryan Glaubke

    Ryan Glaubke

    Ryan Glaubke is an oceanographer from Virginia Beach who developed a passion for the ocean and climate science through firsthand experiences with coastal flooding in Norfolk, Virginia. He…

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  • Ryan Haupt

    Ryan Haupt

    Ryan is a paleontologist and podcaster currently working as a Executive Director for the National Youth Science Academy, an education non-profit focused on providing free afterschool, extracurricular, and…

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  • Sarah Bremmer

    Sarah Bremmer

    Sarah is a Geoscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension. Sarah is fascinated with Earth’s natural systems and processes, and how Geoscientists are able to tell…

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