• Geographic Alliance Network
• Massachusetts 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 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.

Massachusetts Geographic Alliance
http://www.geocities.com/ Athens/3541/

Vernon Domingo
Department of Earth Science and Geography
Bridgewater State College
Bridgewater, MA 02325
Phone: (508) 697-1200, ext. 2101 or (508) 697 1390
Fax: (508) 697-1785

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.

Mr. David M. Taylor
Department of Water Resources
496 Park Street
North Reading, Mass 01864
Phone:  (275) 8860 ext. 138
Fax:  (617) 271-0178
Email: climat@wx.com

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.

Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
100 Cambridge Street, 20th Floor
Boston, MA 02202
Phone:  (617) 727-9800
http://www.magnet.state.ma.us/envir/eoea.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_ma@er.usgs.gov
28 Lord Rd., Suite 280
Marlborough, MA 01752
Phone: (508) 485-6360
Fax: (508) 490-5068
Office hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time

USGS Programs in Massachusetts
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 Massachusetts:  http://water.usgs.gov/ pubs/FS/FS-021-96/

Land and People: Finding a Balance
http://www.u sgs.gov/education/learnweb/LandPeople/
An environmental study project that engages high school students in studying ecosystems resource issues.  The project focuses on the interaction between people and the environment in three regions on the United States:  Cape Cod, Los Angeles, and the Everglades.

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.

University of Massachusetts
Dr. William McCoy
Department of Geosciences
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
Phone: (413) 545-1535
Fax: (413) 545-1200
Email: wdmccoy@geo.umass.edu

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Project Atmosphere AERAs

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Maury Project Peer Trainers

NASA Education Resources

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 Massachusetts

Chris Mastropieri
109 Valley View Drive
Westfield, MA 01085
Phone:  (413) 572-3980
Fax: (413) 562-6663
Email: cmastro@compuserve.com

Charlie Orloff
181 Thacher Shore Road
Yarmouth Port, MA 02675
Phone:  (508) 362-2191
Fax:  (508) 362-8592
Email: corloff@capecod.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 Massachusetts

Sherrill Caruana
59 Brainard Rd.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Phone:  (413) 599-1588
Email: SherrillC@aol.com

George Duane
330 Franklin St.
Framingham, MA 01701
Phone:  (508) 875-8128
Fax:  (508) 626-9167
Email: geoduane@ix.netcom.com

Catalina Moreno
90 Boston Avenue #4
Medford, MA 02155
Phone: 781-483-3146
Email:  cmoreno@massed.net

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.