• Geographic Alliance Network
• NASA Education Resources
• Nevada State Climatologist
• 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.

Geographic Alliance in Nevada
http://www.geography.unr.edu/GAIN/gain.html

Gary Hausladen
University of Nevada, Reno
Department of Geography/154
Reno, NV 89557-0048
Phone: (775) 784-6960
Fax: (775) 784-1058

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.

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.

Professor John W. James
Department of Geography
College of Ats & Sciences
University of Nevada/Reno
Reno NV 89557-0048
Phone: (702) 784-6921

Western Regional Climate Center
P.O. Box 60220
Reno, NV 89506-0220
Phone: (775) 674-7010
Fax: (702) 674-7016
Email: wrcc@dri.edu
http://www.wrcc.sage.dri.edu/

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.

Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
University of Nevada-Reno
Reno, NV  89557-0088
Phone:  (702) 784-6691
http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/

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_nv@usgs.gov
333 West Nye Lane, Rm 203
Carson City, NV 89706
Phone: (702) 887-7600
Fax: (702) 887-7629
Office hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time

USGS Programs in Nevada
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 Nevada: http://water.usgs.gov/ pubs/FS/FS-028-96/
 

• Internet Site for Western Water Resource Issues
• USGS Earth Shots:  Satellite Images of Environmental Change

Links to water resource issues of particular interest to Western States residents and students. Includes these links:

Issues:  Dams, Floods, Drought, Acid Rain, Unsaturated Zone, Super Fund, Water Quality, Rangeland

Regions:  AZ Cities, San Pedro, Mexican Border, Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado River Basin, Mississippi River Basin

Organizations: Water Resource Centers, Press, Federal, Environmental, Monitoring

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.

Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Earth Science Education Outreach Program
http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/

The Earth Science Outreach Program offers earth science and minerals related program/lesson plan guides for classroom instruction, science speakers for Nevada's schools, road guides and leaders for geology field trips, and other resources, and works closely with state, federal and county school districts to upgrade science education. Home page on the Internet.

Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Mail Stop 178
University of Nevada
Reno, NV 89557-0088
Phone:  (775) 784-6691
Fax:  (775) 784-1709
 

• 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 Nevada

Freida Blink
8436 Apple Hill Ct.
Las Vegas, NV 89128
Phone:  (702) 254-7597
Fax:  (702) 254-5935
Email: nvturtle@vegas.infi.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 Nevada

Don Curry
8207 Burnt Sienna
Las Vegas, NV 89123
Phone:  (702) 897-4784
Email: vegascurry@aol.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.  NASA Educator Resource Centers (ERCs) and Space Grant Colleges offer teacher workshops and other education programs in their state.