Geographic Alliance Network

Hawaii State Climatologist

NASA Education Resources

State Geological Survey

U.S. Geological Survey

The National Geographic Society's Geography Education Program has established a network of state geographic alliances-grassroots 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.

Hawaii Geographic Alliance
mfhiguch@hawaii.edu
http://www.hawaii.edu/hga

Pao-Shin Chu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Meteorology
University of Hawaii
Honolulu HI 96822
Phone:  (808) 956-2567
Fax:  (808) 956-2877
Email:  chu@soest.hawaii.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.

Division of Water and Land Development
P.O. Box 373
Honolulu, HI 96809
Phone:  (808) 548-7533

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_hi@usgs.gov
677 Ala Moana Blvd.
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone: (808) 522-8290
Fax: (808) 522-8298
Office hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Hawaii-Aleutian Time

USGS activities in Hawaii
http://water.usgs.gov/ pubs/FS/FS-011-96/

Curriculum Research & Development Group, University of Hawaii (CRDG)
http://www2.hawaii.edu/crdg

Creates, evaluates, disseminates, and supports quality educational programs for all students and teachers, preschool through grade 12.  Teacher workshop titles have included "Matter and Energy in the Biosphere," and "Change Over Time."

Curriculum Research & Development Group
University of Hawaii
1776 University Avenue
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: (800) 799-8111
Fax: (808) 956-6730
Email: crdg@hawaii.edu

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Project Atmosphere AERAs

American Meteorological Society (AMS) 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.

In Hawaii

Sophia Hu
McKinley High School
1039 South King St.
Honolulu, HI 96815
Phone: (808) 594-0455
Fax: (808) 594-0407
Email: shu@makani.k12.hi.us

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 Hawaii

Charlotte Okada
Office of Instructional Services
189 Lunalilo Hm. Rd. 2nd Floor
Honolulu, HI 96825
Phone:  (808) 396-2566
Fax:  (808) 548-5390
Email: charlotte_okada@notes.k12.hi.us

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 Hawaii State Department of Education
Franchise Coordinator :
Ms. Colleen Murakami
Environmental Education Specialist
Hawaii State Department of Education
Office of Accountability and School Instructional Support
189 Lunalilo Home Rd, 2nd Floor, Room D-25
Honolulu, HI 96825
Phone: (808) 396-2572
Fax: (808) 548-5390
Email: colleen_murakami@notes.k12.hi.us

Training Point-of-Contact :
Ms. Nanette Hiraoka
Hawaii State Department of Education
Office of Accountability and School Instructional Support
189 Lunalilo Home Rd, 2nd Floor, Room D-25
Honolulu, HI 96825
Phone: (808) 959-5996
Fax: (808) 933-4766
Email: nanh@hgea.org

GLOBE at Pacific Region Educational Laboratory, Honolulu
Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Mr. Paul Dumas, Director
Pacific Mathematics and Science Regional Consortium
Pacific Region Educational Laboratory
Ali'i Place, 25th Floor
1099 Alakea St.
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone: (808) 441-1300
Fax: (808) 441-1385
Email: dumasp@prel.hawaii.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.

• Curriculum Research & Development Group, University of Hawaii (CRDG)
• University of Hawaii, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST)

Creates, evaluates, disseminates, and supports quality educational programs for all students and teachers, preschool through grade 12.  Summer programs for students have included:

"Sky and Space: Explorations," for students entering grade 5.  Students become meteorologists and astronomers as they explore the mysteries of the sky from an Earth perspective.

"Mountains to the Sea," for students entering grade 9.  Students explore and analyze the interrelationships among the flora, fauna, land, water, and humans in a Hawaiian watershed.

Curriculum Research & Development Group
University of Hawaii
1776 University Avenue
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: (800) 799-8111
Fax: (808) 956-6730
Email: crdg@hawaii.edu

SOEST is a multi-disciplinary school within the University of Hawaii, consisting of a variety of institutes, departments, and other units conducting research and teaching about Earth and the other planets, in the areas of geology and geophysics, meteorology, and oceanography of the Pacific Ocean, the Earth, and the other worlds of the Solar System. SOEST researchers, ships, and submersibles go all over the planet to study the oceans and geology of the world. SOEST offers both MS and PhD graduate degree programs.

Contact:
Office of the Dean
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
University of Hawaii
1680 East-West Road, POST 802
Honolulu, HI, USA 96822