• Arizona State Climatologist
• Geographic Alliance Network
• NASA Education Resources
• State Geological Survey
• 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.

Russell S. Vose
Office of Climatology / Department of Geography
Arizona State University
Box 871508
Tempe, Arizona 85287-1508
Phone: (602) 965-0750
Fax: (602) 965-1473
Email: rvose@asu.edu

The National Geographic Society's 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.

Arizona Geographic Alliance
http://saguaro.la .asu.edu/geography/alliance/

Ron Dorn
Malcolm Comeaux
Department of Geography
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-0104
Phone: (602) 965-7533
Fax: (602) 965-8313

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.

Almost all of the 50 states (and Puerto Rico) have an agency that deals with geological hazards and resources within its bounds. Some have more than one (e.g., one for petroleum resources, one for general geology, and one for water resources), and some have delegated the responsibilities to a unit within a state university. Most, but not all of these institutions are connected to the Internet. For all of these agencies, we've included snail mail addresses as well as known email and Internet links.

Arizona Geological Survey
416 West Congress, #100
Tucson, AZ 85701
Phone:  (520) 770-3500
Fax:  (520) 770-3505
http://www.azgs.state.az.us/

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 Arizona State Representative
dc_az@usgs.gov
U.S. Geological Survey
Water Resources Division
520 N. Park Avenue, Suite 221
Tucson, AZ 85719
Phone: (520) 670-6671, ext. 221
Fax: (520) 670-5592
Office hours: 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Mountain Time

USGS Programs in Arizona
U.S. Geological Survey Programs in Arizona
http://water.usgs.gov/ pubs/FS/FS-003-96/

Use of Microgravity to Assess the Effects of El Niño on Ground-Water Storage in Southern Arizona
http://water.usgs.gov/ pubs/FS/FS-060-98/
 

• Western Water Resource Issues
• The Adventure of Echo the Bat:  Interactive Web Site

Western Water Resource Issues
http://www.hwr. arizona.edu/globe/h2oissues.html

Links to water resource issues of particular interest to Western States residents and students. Includes these links: Dams, Floods, Drought, Acid Rain, Unsaturated Zone, Super Fund, Water Quality, Rangeland

Regions:  AZ Cities, San Pedro, Mexican Border, Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado River Basin, Mississippi River Basin

Organizations: Water Resource Centers, Press, Federal, Environmental, Monitoring

The Adventure of Echo the Bat introduces students to remote sensing and biodiversity from a constructivist approach through an interactive adventure.  Echo migrates through Arizona, and students learn to track him using satellite imagery.  Three thematic units are Understanding Light, Remote Sensing, and Biodiversity. Within each unit are lesson plans, classroom activities (including reproducible worksheets), and links to useful resources.

Contact:

Ginger Butcher
S.G.T., Inc.
Email:  ginger@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov

Site maintained by the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics
Earth Sciences Directorate (Code 900)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD  20771

Earth System Science Education (ESSE) Program
http://www.usra.edu/esse/es sonline/

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

University of Arizona
Jonathan Overpeck, Director
Institute for the Study of Planet Earth
The University of Arizona
715 N. Park Avenue, 2nd floor
Tucson, AZ  85721
Phone:  (520) 622-9062
Fax: (520) 792-8795
Email:  jto@u.arizona.edu

Columbia University's Biosphere 2 Center
The western campus of Columbia Universityís Earth Institute:
Biosphere 2 Center
32540 S. Biosphere Road
Oracle, AZ  USA 85623
Phone: (520) 896-6400
Fax: (520) 896-6471
http://www.bio2.edu/
 

• American Meteorological Society -- Project Atmosphere AERAs
• American Meteorological Society -- Maury Project Peer Trainers
• The GLOBE Program
• NASA Education Resources

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Project Atmosphere AERAs
http://www.ametsoc .org/AMS/amsedu/index.html

The American Meteorological Society's Project Atmosphere includes the operation of a national network of AMS Atmospheric Education Resource Agents (AERAs), who act as regional points of contact for teachers who are seeking information on atmospheric science topics.  Each AERA presents several general atmospheric sciences information sessions each year to teacher groups. AERAs also conduct teacher-training sessions on single meteorological topics about which they have been specially trained. These sessions often take place at local and state teacher association meetings. Others are held at the school district level on staff development days or included in college courses, with AERAs compensated through local or state funds.

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 Arizona

Allen Kelley
6301 N Caravan Ln
Tucson, AZ 85704
Phone: (520) 877-3888
Email: allenk@azstarnet.com

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 Northern Arizona University
Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Ms. Joelle Clark, Instructor
Science and Mathematics Learning Center Northern
Arizona University
PO Box 5697
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
Phone: (520) 523-8797
Fax: (520) 523-7953
Email: Joelle.Clark@nau.edu
Franchise Homepage:
http://www.nau.edu/smlc/

GLOBE at Biosphere 2 Center of Columbia University
Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Ms. Alexis Faust
K-12 Coordinator
Biosphere 2 Center of Columbia
University Highway 77
P.O. Box 689
Oracle, AZ 85623
Phone: (520) 896-6392
Fax: (520) 896-6361
Email: afaust@bio2.edu
Franchise Homepage:
http://www.hwr .arizona.edu/globe/train/bio2.html

SW Teacher Support:
http://w ww.hwr.arizona.edu/globe/support/news0897.html

GLOBE at Scientists Organized to Integrate Learning
Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Ms. Cyndy Henzel, President
Scientists Organized to Integrate Learning, Inc. (S.O.I.L.)
4920 S. Browning Lane
Tucson, AZ 85746
Phone: (520) 883-1560
Fax: (520) 883-4191
Email: chenzel@gci-net.com
Franchise Homepage:  http://www.henzel.org/SOIL

GLOBE at University of Arizona
Franchise Coordinator:
Dr. Jack Elliot
Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural Education
University of Arizona
224 Forbes
P.O. Box 210036
Tucson, AZ 85721-0036
Phone: (520) 621-7173
Fax: (520) 621-9889
Email: elliot@ag.arizona.edu

Training Point-of-Contact:
Ms. Cyndy Henzel
Environmental Education Consultant
Precipice Development
University of Arizona
4920 S. Browning Lane
Tucson, AZ 85746
Phone: (520) 883-1560
Fax: (520) 883-4191
Email: chenzel@gci-net.com
Franchise Homepage:
http://www.hwr.a rizona.edu/globe/train/ua.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.  NASA Educator Resource Centers (ERCs) and Space Grant Colleges offer teacher workshops and other education programs in their state.