• Geographic Alliance Network
• NASA Education Resources
• New Jersey 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.

New Jersey Geographic Alliance
http://www.eirc.org/alliance.html

Paul Cohen
Social Studies Supervisor
East Brunswick School District
760 Route 18
East Brunswick, NJ 08816
Phone: (908) 613-6766
Fax: (908) 390-9307
Email: pbcsocst@aol.com
http://www.eirc.org/alliance.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.

State Climatologists are individuals who have been identifiedby a state entity as the state's climatologist and who are also recognizedby the Director of the National Climatic Data Center of the National Oceanicand Atmospheric Administration as the state climatologist of a particularstate.

Dr. David A. Robinson
New Jersey State Climatologist
Department of Geography
Rutgers University
54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue
Piscataway NJ 08854-8054
Phone: (732) 445-4741
Fax: (732) 445-0006
Email: drobins@rci.rutgers.edu
http://climate.rutgers.edu/stateclim/

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.

New Jersey Geological Survey
P.O. Box 427
29 Arctic Parkway
Trenton, NJ 08625-0427
Phone:  (609) 292-1185
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/

The U.S. Geological Survey provides the Nation with reliable,impartial information to describe and understand the Earth.  Sciencetopics are Biology, Geology, Mapping, and Water. The U.S. Geological Surveyhas offices in every state, thus providing a local presence and facilitatingrelations with the public and private sectors, academia, and federal, state,and local agencies. This widely distributed network of scientific personnelis a resource that provides a valuable and nationally consistent, long-termearth science information base.

USGS State Representative

dc_nj@usgs.gov
810 Bear Tavern Rd., Suite 206
West Trenton, NJ 08628
Phone: (609) 771-3900
Fax: (609) 771-3915
Office hours: 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Eastern Time

USGS Programs in New Jersey
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 USGSactivities in New Jersey: http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/FS/FS-030-96/

Sponsored by NASA through the Universities Space ResearchAssociation,ESSE supports the development of undergraduate curricula in Earth SystemScience and Global Change at forty-four participating colleges anduniversities.

Princeton University
Dr. Henry Horn
Princeton University
205 Eno Hall
Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: (609) 258-3835
Fax: (609) 258-1334
Email: hshorn@princeton.edu

Rutgers University
Dr. James Miller
Dept. of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Cook College
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: (908) 932-6555 x545
Fax: (908) 932-1821
Email: miller@arctic.rutgers.edu
 

A presentation focusing on two curricular initiatives, both contributing to global change education and a systems approach to understanding the Earth.  First is the development of a series of non-credit, co-curricular modules illustrative of global change and the earth system.  The final module will be a capstone during which the student creates a classroom ready activity.  Upon completion the student receives an achievement award for their portfolio.  The target audience for this module and award approach includes both pre-service and in-service teachers.  The second initiative involves the development of a multidisciplinary, issue oriented academic major focused on global environmental change.

Paul Rockman
Center for Earth Systems Education
Kean University
Union, New Jersey 07083
Phone: (908) 527-2894
Fax: (908) 629-7011
Email: prockman@turbo.kean.edu

• American Meteorological Society (AMS) Project AtmosphereAERAs
• American Meteorological Society (AMS) Maury ProjectPeer Trainers
• The GLOBE Program
• NASA Education Resources

The American Meteorological Society's Project Atmosphere includesthe operation of a national network of AMS Atmospheric Education ResourceAgents (AERAs), who act as regional points of contact for teachers whoare seeking information on atmospheric science topics.  Each AERApresents several general atmospheric sciences information sessions eachyear to teacher groups. AERAs also conduct teacher-training sessions onsingle meteorological topics about which they have been specially trained.These sessions often take place at local and state teacher associationmeetings. Others are held at the school district level on staff developmentdays or included in college courses, with AERAs compensated through localor state funds.

In New Jersey

Rich Lees
19 St. James Place
Clifton, NJ 07013
Phone: (201) 473-2957
Fax: (201) 473-2957
Email: rlees@ix.netcom.com

John Moore
2 Stonegate Court
Blackwood, NJ 08012
Phone: (609) 346-0282
Fax: (609) 346-0282
Email: moore_johnd@msn.com

Michael Rosenthal
6 Hemlock Ct.
Hackettstown, NJ 07840-4149
Phone: (908) 852-5133
Fax: (908) 852-3351
Email: mirosen@yahoo.com

Maury Project Peer Trainers are Master precollege teacherstrained in one of the AMS Summer training workshops held at the UnitedStates Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, who have demonstrated an exceptionalcompetency and commitment to the process of guiding fellow teachers inthe field of precollege physical oceanographic education. These teachersconduct seminar/workshops on an on-going basis for their peers, withintheir respective teaching districts, using primarily single-topic teachingmaterials developed by AMS specifically for this purpose.

In New Jersey

William Blanchard
203 Overlook Drive
Neptune, NJ 07753
Phone:  (732) 988-1472

Margaret Holzer
266 Edgeware Ct.
Somerset, NJ 08873
Phone: (732) 868-0901
Email: mholzer@monmouth.com

Dr. Michael Passow
296 Central Ave.
Englewood, NJ 07631-1658
Phone: (201) 871-0846
Fax: (201) 541-9702
Email: mjpassow@worldnet.att.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 Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken
Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Dr. Edward A. Friedman, Director
Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Phone: (201) 216-5375
Fax: (201) 216-8069
Email: friedman@stevens-tech.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.

Environmental Studies Program, Burlington County Institute of Technology, Medford NJ

This is a four year course of study preparing students for careers and/or further education in the environmental field, with an emphasis on Earth Systems. Students work with direct read-out data having access to both geostationary and polar-orbiting satellite images from satellite receivers. Using a project/problem based learning approach, supported by NASA's Classroom of the Future, students design independent and/or collaborative research problems, or projects that monitor our changing planet using a wide variety of resources.

Students spend 3 hours per day, five days a week, for four years in the program, graduating with not only a High School diploma, but a headstart towards their future gaining significant experiences from unique learning opportunities.

Contact:
John D. Moore
Teacher of Environmental Studies
Burlington County Institute of Technology
10 Hawkins Road
Medford NJ   08055
Phone: (609) 654-0200
Email:  moore_johnd@hotmail.com