Geographic Alliance Network

Georgia Environmental Monitoring Network

Georgia State Climatologist

NASA Education Resources

State Geological Survey

U.S. Geological Survey

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:

Georgia Geographic Alliance
http://www.gsu.edu/~gegtah/ alliance

Truman A. Hartshorn
Department of Geography
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone: (404) 651-1827
Fax: (404) 651-3235

The Georgia Automated Environmental Monitoring Network was established in 1991 by the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences of the University of Georgia. The objective of the AEMN is to collect reliable weather information for agricultural and        environmental applications.  Each station monitors air temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, solar radiation, wind speed, wind direction, and soil temperature at 2, 4, and 8 inch depths every 1 second. Data are summarized at 15 minute intervals and at midnight a daily summary is calculated. A microcomputer at the Georgia Experiment Station initiates telephone calls to each station periodically and downloads the recorded data.

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.

Georgia State Climate Office
Bioligical & Agricultural Engineering Dept.
Driftmier Engineering Center
University of Georgia
Athens, GA  30602-4435
Phone:  (706) 583-0156
Fax:  (706) 542-8806
Email: climate@bae.uga.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.

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 e-mail and Internet links.

Georgia Geologic Survey
19 Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr., S.W., Room 400
Atlanta, GA 30334
Phone:  (404) 656-3214
http://www.ganet.org/dnr/environ/branches/geosurv/gsnar.htm

The U.S. Geological Survey provides the Nation with reliable, impartial information to describe and understand the Earth.  Science topics are Biology, Geology, Mapping, and Water. The U.S. Geological Survey 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 State Representative

dc_ga@usgs.gov
3039 Amwiler Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30360-2824
Phone: (770) 903-9100
Fax: (770) 903-9199
Office hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Water Resources of Georgia
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/
 
 

The Cooperative University-based Program for Earth System Science (ESSE)
http://www.usra.edu/esse/es sonline/

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:  Georgia Institute of Technology
Philip Froelich
School of Earth & Atmos. Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
221 Bobby Dodd Way
Atlanta, GA   30332-0340
Phone:  (404) 894-3944
Fax:  (404) 894-5638 (fax)
Email:  philip.froelich@eas.gatech.edu
 

American Meteorological Society (AMS)  Project Atmosphere AERAs

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Maury Project Peer Trainers

The GLOBE Program

NASA Education Resources

• NOVA

K-12 Professional Development Opportunities

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.

In Georgia

Faye McCollum
6049 Charing Dr.
Columbus, GA 31909
Voice:  (706) 323-6251
Fax:  (706) 323-4894
Email: mccoll@mindspring.com

H. Patricia Warthan
1470 Stoneleigh Cir.
Stone Mountain, GA 30088
Voice:  (770) 498-9493
Fax:  (770) 469-3641
Email: pwart@aol.com

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 Georgia

Victoria Boone
504 Liberty Tree Rd.
St. Marys, GA 31558
Phone: (912) 729-5149
Email: vboone@eagnet.com

Patricia DuBose
907 Margaret Street
St. Marys, GA 31558
Phone: 912-882-5673
Email: pdubose1@gcedunet.gac.peachnet.edu

Mikie Emerson
2292 Wesley Chapel Road
Decatur, GA 30035
Phone: 404-289-3684
Email: knotmary@aol.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: at Dekalb County School System, Atlanta
Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Mr. Benjamin Ridgeway
Elementary Instruction
DeKalb County School System
3770 N. Decatur Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30032
Phone: (404) 297-7461
Fax: (404) 297-2380
Email: ridgewab@dcss.dekalb.k12.ga.us
Franchise Homepage :
http://www.dekalb.k12.ga.us/ ~globe

GLOBE at The Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
Franchise Coordinator:
Ms. Vicki H. Ainslie
Environmental Health Scientist
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Electro-Optics, Environment and Materials Laboratory
Georgia Tech
O'Keefe Building, Room 029
151 Sixth Street
Atlanta, GA 30332
Phone: (404) 894-3988
Fax: (404) 894-8275
Email: vicki.ainslie@gtri.gatech.edu

Training Point-of-Contact:
Ms. Ann Harbert
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Georgia Tech
OEML/SHETD
O'Keefe Building
Atlanta, GA 30332-0282
Phone: (404) 894-7431
Fax: (404) 894-2184
Email: ann.harbert@gtri.gatech.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.

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.

COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY
4225 University Avenue
Columbus, GA  31907-5645

Francis E. Gardner, Jr.
Director
Science Education Outreach Center
Phone: (706) 562-1471
FAX:  (706) 562-1477
Email:  gardner_francis@colstate.edu

David Shoemaker
Associate Professor and Chair
Curriculum and Instruction
Phone: (706) 568-2255
Email: shoemaker_david@colstate.edu

VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY
Valdosta, GA  31698

Donna Gosnell
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Phone:  (912) 249-4934
Email:   dgosnell@valdosta.edu

David Hedgepeth
Assistant Professor
Department of Middle Grade Education
College of Education
Phone: (912) 333-5611
Fax: (912) 333-7167
Email: dhedgepe@valdosta.edu

Gary Lynn Wood
Associate Professor
Chemistry Department
Phone:  (912) 333-5458
Email:  lwood@valdosta.edu