• Association of American Geographers
• Geographic Alliance Network
• Kansas Collaborative Research Network (KanCRN)
• Kansas State Climatologist
• NASA Education Resources
• Southern Great Plains Educational Outreach
• State Geological Survey
• U.S. Geological Survey

AAG has initiated the NASA funded "Global Change in Local Places" (GCLP) project, which links integrated studies of local places with global models of climate and ecosystem change to enhance scientific understanding of:
 
• The nature of anthropogenic environmental change
• The forces driving human-induced changes
• Opportunities to mitigate or adapt to such changes
• The theory and methods of integrated assessment

This first phase will analyze three particular study areas, one of which is the the Highlands/Ogallala area of Kansas.

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.

Kansas Geographic Alliance
http://www.fhsu.edu/kga

John Heinrichs
Fort Hays State University
Department of Geosciences
600 Park Street
Hays KS 67601-4099
Phone:  (785) 628 4536
Fax:  (785) 628 4096
Email: jheinric@fhsu.edu

KanCRN is an open community made up of students, researchers, and teachers interested in conducting Internet-based, collaborative research.  The web site listed below includes projects, discussion groups, contacts, and other resources, including some in the areas of atmospherics and hydrospherics.

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.

Ms. Mary Knapp
Department of Communications
Weather Data Library
211 Umberger Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan KS 66506-3402
Phone:  (785) 532-7019
Fax:  (785) 532-6487
Email: mknapp@oz.oznet.ksu.edu
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/wdl/

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.

Southern Great Plains Educational Outreach:  Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM)
http://outreach.ocs.ou.edu/ARM/

ARM Education Center Home Page:
http://www.arm.gov/docs/education/index.html

The U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program was created in 1989 as part of the U. S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) to improve the treatment of atmospheric radiative and cloud processes in large-scale computer models used to predict climate change.  The educational outreach portion of the ARM Program seeks to provide schools with the materials necessary to use environmental data in the  classroom. (KS and OK)

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.

Kansas Geological Survey
The University of Kansas
1930 Constant Avenue
West Campus
Lawrence, KS  66046-2598
Phone:  (913) 864-3965
http://www.kgs.ukans.edu/kgs. html

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_ks@usgs.gov
4821 Quail Crest Place
Lawrence, KS 66049
Phone: (785) 832-3505
Fax: (785) 832-3500
Office hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Central Time

USGS Programs in Kansas
USGS Fact Sheets listed by state can be found at this WWW site:
http://water.usgs.gov/public/wid/index-state.html

A Fact Sheet at the following WWW site describes several of the USGS activities in Kansas: http://water.usgs.gov/ pubs/FS/FS-017-96/

Earthshots is an "ebook" of before-and-after Landsat images (1972-present), showing recent environmental events and introducing remote sensing. Earthshots comes from the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls S.D., the world's largest archive of earth science data and the official National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive. Satellite images with some interpretation, links to other data, references.

Kansas Professional Development

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Project Atmosphere AERAs

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Maury Project Peer Trainers

The GLOBE Program

NASA Education Resources

NOVA

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 Kansas

Phyllis Kay Neill
824 E. 2nd Circle
Douglass, KS 67039
Phone:  (316) 747-2092
Fax:  (316) 747-2092
Email: kneill@mail.derby.k12.ks.us

Samuel Wine
Eureka High School
815 N. Jefferson/USD 389
Eureka, KS 67045
Phone:  (316) 583-7428
Fax:  (316) 583-8222
Email: thewines@midusa.net

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 Kansas

Wayne Goates
540 N. Mt. Carmel
Wichita, KS 67203
Phone:  (316) 942-6206
Email: booger@wichita.infi.net

Carol Williamson
2619 W. 131st. Street
Olathe, KS 66061
Phone:  (913) 764-6036
Email: cwilliam@sound.net

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 Kansas State University, Manhattan
Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Training Point-of-Contact :
Dr. Emmett L. Wright
Professor and Director
ARIOS - Kansas
Kansas State University
1100 Mid-Campus Dr.
237 Bluemont Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
Phone: (785) 532-7838
Fax: (785) 532-7304
Email: birdhunt@ksu.edu
Franchise Homepage:
http://www2.educ.ksu.edu/organizations/ARIOS/ARIOSMenu.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.

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.

BAKER UNIVERSITY
P.O. Box 65
Baldwin City, KS  66006

John Johnson
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
Phone:  (785) 594-6451 ext. 384
Email:  johnson@harvey.bakeru.edu

Merrie Skaggs
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
Phone: (785) 594-8491
Fax: (785) 594-6721
Email: skaggs@harvey.bakeru.edu

EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY
Emporia, KS 66801

DeWayne Backhus
Professor and Chair
Division of Physical Science
Box 4030
Phone: (316) 341-5330
Fax: (316) 341-5073
Email: backhusd@esumail.emporia.edu

Scott Irwin
Professor of Science Education
Early Childhood/Elementary Education
Box 4037
Phone:  (316) 341-5752
Email:  irwinrsc@esumail.emporia.edu

Ron Keith
Assistant Professor of Physics
Division of Physical Sciences
Campus Box 4030
Phone:  (316) 341-5980
Email:  keithron@esumail.emporia.edu

Nancy Smith
Assistant Professor of Math Education
Early Childhood/Elementary Education
Campus Box 4030
Phone:  (316) 341-5754
Email:  smithnan@esumail.emporia.edu

FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY
600 Park Street
Hays, KS  67601

Paul E. Adams
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Phone: (785) 628-4500
Fax: (785) 628-4146
Email: padams@fhsu.edu

Ervin Eltze
Mathematics and Computer Science Dept.
Hays, KS 67601
Phone: (785) 628-5374
Email: eeltze@fhsu.edu

James Hohman
Chemistry Dept.
Phone: (785) 628-4504
Email: jhohman@fhsu.edu

Linda Kallam
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Phone:  (785) 628-5669
Email: lkallam@fhsu.edu

Germaine L. Taggart
Assistant Professor
Department of Teacher Education
Phone: (785) 628-5847
Email: gtaggart@fhsu.edu

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
3008 Wilson Drive
Manhattan, KS  66507

Monica Clement
Instructor
Department of Geology
Phone: (785) 532-2251
Email: mclement@ksu.edu

M. Jenice Goldston
Assistant Professor
Department of Science & Elem. Ed
Phone: (785) 532-7747
Fax: (785) 532-7304
Email: mfrench@ksu.edu

Charles Oviatt
Head
Department of Geology
Phone: (785) 532-2245
Emial: joviatt@ksu.edu

Jackie Spears
Director of Women Studies
College of Education.
Phone: (785) 532-
Email: jspears@ksu.edu