• Geographic Alliance Network
• Maryland State Climatologist
• NASA Education Resources
• Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
• State Geological Survey
• U.S. Geological Survey

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.

Maryland Geographic Alliance

Sari Bennett
Department of Geography
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Social Science Room 211
100 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Phone: (410) 455-3148
Fax: (410) 455-1056
Email:  sbennett@umbc.edu

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. Kenneth E. Pickering
Acting State Climatologist
Department of Meteorology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: (301) 405-7223
Fax:  (301) 314-9482
Email: climate@atmos.umd.edu
http://meto.umd.edu/SC/sc.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.

Located on the shore of Chesapeake Bay, the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) uses the geographic features of the nation's largest estuary to investigate interconnections of aquatic, terrestrial and atmospheric components of complex landscapes. These studies are then compared on regional, continental and global scales. SERC scientists measure environmental change in four ecological levels: global change; landscape ecology; ecology of coastal ecosystems; and population and community ecology. Professional education at SERC provides research experience to undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students.  SERC scientists also teach courses in environmental science for teachers, resource managers, and other professionals.

P.O. Box 28
647 Contees Wharf Road
Edgewater, Maryland 21037
From Annapolis:  (410) 798-4424
From Washington, D.C.:  (301) 261-4190
From Baltimore:  (410) 269-1412
Fax: (301) 261-7954

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.

Maryland Geological Survey
2300 St. Paul Street
Baltimore, MD  21218
Phone:  (410) 554-5500
http://www.mgs.md.gov

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_md@usgs.gov
U.S. Geological Survey
8987 Yellow Brick Road
Baltimore, MD 21237
Phone: (410) 238-4200
Fax: (410) 238-4210
Office hours: 8:00a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time

USGS Programs in Maryland
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 Maryland: http://water.usgs.gov/ pubs/FS/FS-020-96/

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.

The University of Maryland at College Park
Dr. Owen E. Thompson
Department of Meteorology
University of Maryland at College Park
College Park, MD 20742-5141
Phone: (301) 405-5383
Fax: (301) 314-9482
Email: owen@atmos.umd.edu

Johns Hopkins University
Dr. George W. Fisher
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
John Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone:  (410) 516-7237
Fax:  (410) 516-7933
Email: gfisher@jhu.edu

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Project Atmosphere AERAs

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Maury Project Peer Trainers

The GLOBE Program

NASA Education Resources

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

The American Meteorological Societyís 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 Maryland

Tony Thomas
6506 Cedar Street
Cheverly, MD 20785
Voice: 301-773-3288
Fax: 301-773-0881
Email: SLOWESCIT@AOL.COM

William Krayer
24219 Preakness Dr.
Damascus, MD 20872
Phone:  (301) 253-4022
Fax:  (301) 253-4022
Email: william_krayer@fc.mcps.k12.md.us

Barbara Palko
P.O. Box 2211
La Plata, MD 20646
Phone:  (301) 934-2777
Fax:  (301) 934-4280
Email: palkob@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 Maryland

A. Marie Carter
1218 Carroll Drive
Waldorf, MD 20601-2606
Phone:  (301) 645-7237
Email: carterm@olg.com

Sharon Clavell
304 Stonecastle Avenue
Reisterstown, MD 21136-3512
Phone:  (410) 833-7023
Email: scam@ea.net

Doug Dillner
2020 Bay Ridge Ave.
Annapolis, MD 21403
Phone:  (410) 280-3906
Email: dillner2@brass.nadn.navy.mil

Chew Eleanor
924 Jay Court
Glen Burnie, MD 21061
Phone:  (410) 760-8366

Ward Fleissner
3115 63rd Place
Cheverly, MD 20785-3117
Phone:  (301) 386-4898
Email: wfleissner@hotmail.com

Timothy Price
2230 Alice Avenue Apt. 101
Oxon Hill, MD 20745
Email: timprice@mailexcite.com

M. Michele Rowland
6104 41st Avenue
Hyattsville, MD 20782
Phone:  (301) 277-6671
Email: rowlandlawfirm@erols.com

Allen Ruby
6 W Lake Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21210
Phone:  (410) 323-4767
Email: aruby@csos.jhu.edu

Sallie Smith
5007 53rd Place
Hyattsville, MD 20781
Phone:  (301) 927-6178
Email: sallies@pgcps.pg.k12.md.us

Tony Thomas
6506 Cedar Street
Cheverly, MD 20785
Phone:  (301) 773-3288
Email: SLOWESCIT@AOL.COM

Wallace White
101 Meadow Road
Owings Mills, MD 21117
Phone:  (410) 363-4690
Email: wrwhite@erols.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 Gallaudet University, Washington, DC
Franchise Coordinator:
Dr. H. David Snyder
Gallaudet University
Kendall Green
800 Florida Avenue, N.E.
Washington, DC 20002-3695
Phone: (202) 651-5385
Fax: (202) 651-5521
Email: hdsnyder@gallux.gallaudet.edu

Training Point-of-Contact:
Ms. Mary Ellsworth
Pre-College National Mission Programs
Gallaudet University
Kendall Green
800 Florida Avenue, N.E.
Washington, DC 20002-3695
Phone: (202) 651-5883
Fax: (202) 651-5901
Email: mary.ellsworth@gallaudet.edu

Franchise Homepage:
http://www.gallaudet.edu/~globeweb/

GLOBE at NASA GSFC:
Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Dr. Robert E. Gabrys
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Goddard Space Flight Center --Mail Code 130.3
Greenbelt Road
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Phone: (301) 286-7205
Fax: (301) 286-1655
Email:  Robert.E.Gabrys.1@gsfc.nasa.gov

GLOBE at Prince Georgeís County Public Schools:
Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Mr. James M. Strandquist
Science Supervisor, K-12
Prince George's County Public Schools
Instructional Services and Supply Center
9201 East Hampton Dr.
Capitol Heights, MD 20743
Phone: (301) 808-8254
Fax: (301) 808-8291
Email: strand@pgcps.pg.k12.md.us
Franchise Homepage:
http://www.pgcps.pg.k12.md.us/

GLOBE at University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
Franchise Coordinator:
Dr. Susan M. Blunck
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
University of Maryland Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Phone:  (410) 455-6579 or 2869
Fax:  (410) 455-3986
Email: blunck@umbc.edu

Training Point-of-Contact :
Mr. Patrick T. Campbell, Co-Director
Egyptian Teacher-Scholar Program for Mathematics & Science
University of Maryland Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Phone:  (410) 455-6579 or 2869
Fax:  (410) 455-3986
Email:  pcampbel@umbc.edu
Franchise Homepage:
http://www.umbc.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.

Located on the shore of Chesapeake Bay, the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) uses the geographic features of the nation's largest estuary to investigate interconnections of aquatic, terrestrial and atmospheric components of complex landscapes. These studies are then compared on regional, continental and global scales. SERC scientists measure environmental change in four ecological levels: global change; landscape ecology; ecology of coastal ecosystems; and population and community ecology.
Professional education at SERC provides research experience to undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students.  SERC scientists also teach courses in environmental science for teachers, resource managers, and other professionals.

P.O. Box 28
647 Contees Wharf Road
Edgewater, Maryland 21037
Phone:
From Annapolis:  (410) 798-4424
From Washington, D.C.:  (301) 261-4190
From Baltimore:  (410) 269-1412
Fax: (301) 261-7954