• Alabama State Climatologist
• Geographic Alliance Network
• Geoscience Educational Resource Center, Alabama Geological Survey
• NASA Education Resources
• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

State Climatologists are individuals who have been identified by a state entity as the state's climatologist and who are also recognized by the Director of the National Climatic Data Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as the state climatologist of a particular state.

Dr. Richard McNider
Earth Systems Science Laboratory
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville AL 35899
Phone: (256) 922-5756
Fax: (256) 922-5755
Email: mcnider@atmos.uah.edu
Education outreach programs: http://www.atmos.uah.edu/essl/

The National Geographic Societyís Geography Education Program has established a network of state geographic alliancesógrassroots organizations composed mainly of K-12 teachers and university geographersódedicated to improving and promoting geography education. These alliances support professional development for teachers, development of classroom materials, and efforts to make geography a part of state and local curricula.

NGS Geographic Education Program:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/index.html

Alabama Geographic Alliance
http://www.jsu.edu/depart/geography/alliance/agahome.html

Howard G. Johnson
Department of Geography
Jacksonville State University
Jacksonville, AL 36265
Phone: (205) 782-5813
Fax: (205) 782-5293

William R. Strong
Department of Geography
University of North Alabama
Florence, AL 35632-0001
Phone: (205) 760-4218
Fax: (205) 760-4663

David Weaver
Department of Geography
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-1982
Phone: (205) 348-5047
Fax: (205) 348-2278

The Geological Survey of Alabama publishes educational materials and has recently established a resource center for educators. This center contains student and teacher activities, videos, slide sets, general information and resource guides on a wide range of geoscience related topics.

Contact:
Ms. Yvonne Massey
Alabama Geological Survey
P.O. Box O
420 Hackberry Lane
Tuscaloosa, AL 35486
Phone:  (205) 349-2852
Fax:  (205) 349-2861
Email: gsa@ogb.gsa.tuscaloosa.al.us

NASA's State-Based Electronic Notebook is the source for NASA and aerospace education in your state. Includes links to K-university level education contacts, resources, and information.

USGS provides the Nation with reliable, impartial information to describe and understand the Earth. Science topics are Biology, Geology, Mapping, and Water.  The Agency has offices in every state, thus providing a local presence and facilitating relations with the public and private sectors, academia, and federal, state, and local agencies. This widely distributed network of scientific personnel is a resource that provides a valuable and nationally consistent, long-term earth science information base.

USGS Alabama State Representative

dc_al@usgs.gov
2350 Fairlane Drive, Suite 120
Montgomery, AL 36116
Phone: (334) 213-2332
Fax: (334) 213-2348
Office hours: 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Central Time

USGS Programs in Alabama
http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/FS/FS -002-96/

Alabama Curriculum Support

The Cooperative University-based Program for Earth System Science (ESSE) Sponsored by NASA through the Universities Space Research Association, ESSE supports the development of undergraduate curricula in Earth System Science and Global Change at forty-four participating colleges and universities.

Participant:  University of Alabama - Huntsville
Contact: Dr. Richard T. McNider
Earth System Science Lab
Research Institute - Box 212
University of Alabama-Huntsville
Huntsville, AL 35899
Phone:  (205) 922-5756
Fax:  (205) 922-5723
Email: mcnider@atmos.uah.edu

Alabama Professional Development

American Meteorological Society -- Maury Project Peer Trainers

The GLOBE Program

NASA Education Resources

Project EarthSense: Hydrology and Remote Sensing Education Project for the K-12 Earth Science Education Community

NOVA

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Maury Project Peer Trainers
http://www.ametsoc.org/amsedu/maury/

Maury Project Peer Trainers are Master precollege teachers trained in one of the AMS Summer training workshops held at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, who have demonstrated an exceptional competency and commitment to the process of guiding fellow teachers in the field of precollege physical oceanographic education. These teachers conduct seminar/workshops on an on-going basis for their peers, within their respective teaching districts, using primarily single-topic teaching materials developed by AMS specifically for this purpose.

In Alabama

Sondra Abercrombie
3931 Seventh Ave. South
Birmingham, AL 35222
Phone: (205) 930-9015
Email: bunnyab@aol.com

Margaret Clark
3336 Sunniroc Road
Birmingham, AL 35210
Phone: (205) 414-3800
Email: clarkm@mtnbrook.k12.al.us

Sylvester Hackworth
2455 Oakleigh Drive
Mobile, AL 36617
Phone: (334) 452-4981

Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment. GLOBE students make environmental observations at or near their schools and report their data through the Internet.

GLOBE Franchise Coordinator and Training
Contact: Mr. Gregory N. Cox
Earth System Science Laboratory
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Global Hydrology and Climate Center
977 Explorer Blvd.
Huntsville, AL 35806
Phone: (256) 922-5738
Fax: (256) 922-5723
Email: cox@atmos.uah.edu
http://www.globe.uah.edu/

NASA's State-Based Electronic Notebook is the source for NASA and aerospace education in your state. Includes links to K-university level education contacts, resources, and information.  NASA Educator Resource Centers (ERCs) and Space Grant Colleges offer teacher workshops and other education programs in their state.

Project EarthSense is a K-12 environmental education program developed in response to the need to address math and science education reform. Two areas of science and technology form the basis of Project EarthSense, remote sensing and hydrology, which provide a more comprehensive, balanced approach to environmental education rely on lecture and hand's-on activities both in the classroom and in the field. Project EarthSense teacher training workshops consists of a 5 day series of lectures, and hand's-on activities and experiments that provide participating teacher with a well-rounded background in the use of data derived from satellites and other remote sensing platforms. These activities are performed by the teachers so that they can utilize the basic concepts with students in the classroom and on field trips. The activities are designed for completion in their geographic area to allow student participation during the academic year. Participating teachers are provided satellite and aerial remotely sensed images of their areas where the so that they may use them in future classroom and field trip activities.

NOVA
http://www.eng.ua.edu/~nova

NOVA was created to develop and disseminate a national framework for enhancing science, mathematics, and technology literacy for teachers in the 21st century.  This effort is accomplished through the demonstration of an undergraduate science/math/technology course framework, examples of successful course models, and a mentoring support system for faculty wishing to implement new courses or modify existing courses at their universities.  The framework uses interactive learning and integrates science, mathematics and technology as a means of developing a new paradigm for educating teachers.  NOVA invites the participation of science, mathematics, engineering, technology, and education faculty who are concerned with how universities prepare new teachers.  Using NASA missions (inlcuding the Earth sciences), facilities, and resources, NOVA provides faculty with enhanced knowledge and skills to implement change in university courses.  The NOVA team presents its framework for change primarily through three-day workshops to interdisciplinary university teams. These universities are then eligible to submit proposals for Implementation Planning Grants (up to $30,000 for a one-year period) to initiate change in science, mathematics, or engineering courses for preparing K-12 teachers.  The schedule of workshops is available at http://www.eng.ua.edu/~nova.

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
Tuscaloosa, AL  35487

Charles Karr
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
Box 870280
Phone: (205) 348-0066
Fax: (205) 348-2094
Email: ckarr@coe.eng.ua.edu