• Alaska State Climatologist
• 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. Dwight D. Pollard
Alaska State Climate Center
ENRI University of Alaska-Anchorage
707 A Street
Anchorage AK 99501
Phone: (907) 257-2737
Fax: (907) 257-2707
Email: auclima@uaa.alaska.edu
http://www.uaa.ala ska.edu/enri/ascc_web/ascc_home.html

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 Alaska State Representative

dc_ak@usgs.gov
U.S. Geological Survey
4230 University Dr., Suite 201
Anchorage, AK 99508-4664
Phone: (907) 786-7111
Fax: (907) 786-7150
Office hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Alaska Time
 

Glacier Power
http://www.asf.alaska.edu:2222/

A curriculum supplement module on glaciers developed by the Alaska Synthetic Aperature Radar Facility at the University of Ålaska Fairbanks School of Education.  Includes information on glaciers and their importance to climate studies; lesson plans, student review/exercises and activities, and resources such as glacier imagery, illustrations, diagrams and more.  For grades 4-6.

General

Color Landform Atlas: Alaska
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/ak_0.html

Online atlas of color-keyed shaded relief maps for the United State, provided by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.  Each state link brings up a menu of links to maps and other online information about the state. The following maps are available for each state (with a few exceptions).

• Color and black and white topographic maps optimized to show the landforms. The same color shading is used across the country.
• A map showing counties in a state.
• Satellite images of the state from the NOAA weather satellites and use the AVHRR image data.
• An 1895 map of each state.

The GLOBE Program

NASA Education Resources

NOVA

The GLOBE Program
http://www.globe.gov/

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 Franchises provide training for teachers.

GLOBE at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Dr. Elena Sparrow
Co-coordinator
Alaska Global Change Education
University of Alaska Fairbanks
309 O'Neill Bldg.
P.O. Box 757200
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7200
Phone: (907) 474-7699
Fax: (907) 474-6184
Email: ffebs@aurora.alaska.edu
Franchise Homepage :
http://www.cgc.uaf.edu/

GLOBE at the University of Alaska Southeast
Juneau Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Ms. Sandi Pahlke
Alaska Global Change Education
University of Alaska Southeast
Floyd Dryden Middle School
10014 Crazy Horse Dr.
Juneau, AK 99801
Phone: (907) 463-1850
Fax: (907) 463-1828
Email: pahlkes@jsd.k12.ak.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.  NASA Educator Resource Centers (ERCs) and Space Grant Colleges offer teacher workshops and other education programs in their state.

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 (including 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.

ALASKA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
4101 University Drive
Anchorage, AK  99508

Ted R. Munsch
Department Chair
Department of Education
Phone: (907) 564-8258
Fax: (907) 564-8396
Email: edted@alaskapacific.edu