• Geographic Alliance Network
• NASA Education Resources
• The National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA)
• New York 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 York Geographic Alliance
http://everest.hunter. cuny.edu/a lliance/

Jose F. Betancourt
Department of Geography
SUNY College at Oneonta
Oneonta, NY 13820
Phone: (607) 436-3378
Fax: (607) 436-2656
Email: BETANCJF@snyoneva.cc.on eonta.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.

The National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) is engaged in research with computer technologies that enable scientists and policy makers to visualize geographic problems through maps, images, and data.  Integral parts of the NCGIA's functions include educational outreach to the academic and professional worlds and collaboration with partners from education, government, and the private sector.

NCGIA-Buffalo
http://www.geog.b uffalo.edu/ncgia/

NCGIA-Buffalo currently offers intensive, non-credit training programs in GIS software applications, and may in the future extend the program to include instruction in other software packages. These three- to five-day courses are designed for participants from both the public and the private sectors of the community.

NCGIA
State University of New York at Buffalo
301 Wilkeson Quad
Box 610023
Buffalo, New York 14261-0023
Phone: (716) 645-2545
Fax: (716) 645-5957
Email: ncgia@acsu.buffalo.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.

Mr. Keith L. Eggleston
1117 Bradfield Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
Phone: (607) 255-1749
Fax:  (607) 255-2106
Email: KLE1@cornell.edu

Northeast Regional Climate Center
http://met-www.ci t.cornell. edu/nrcc_home.html

Dr. Warren Knapp, Director
1107 Bradfield Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-1901
Phone:  (607) 255-1751
Fax:  (607) 255-2106
Email: nrcc@cornell.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 email and Internet links.

Contact:
Robert H. Fakundiny
3140 Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230
Email: rfakundi@mail.nysed.gov

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_ny@usgs.gov
425 Jordan Rd.
Troy, NY 12180-8349
Phone: (518) 285-5600
Fax: (518) 285-5601
Office hours: 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time

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

A Fact Sheet at the following WWW site describes several of the USGS activities in New York:  http://water.usgs.gov/ pubs/FS/FS -032-96/

New York Curriculum Support

Using the NY State Network of Earth Science, Physics, and Math Mentors, GREAT helps teachers find and use NASA Global Change materials on the Internet and the various ways images rather than data can improve their instruction.  GREAT and the mentors also use an open list serve to inform teachers of web locations with and/or data for instruction.

Contact:
Don Scoma
Lockport Schools
Email:  scoma@aol.com
Phone:  (713) 632-9652
 

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.

 

Cornell University
Dr. Bryan Isacks
INSTOC, Sne e Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14850
Phone: (607) 255-2307
Fax: (607) 254-4780
Email: bli1@cornell.edu
Kerry Cook
Phone:  (607) 255-9716
Fax:  (607) 255-2106
Email:  khc6@cornell.edu
 

New York University
Dr. Michael Rampino
Earth and Environmental Sciences Program
New York University
26 Stuyvesant St.
New York, NY 10003
Phone:  (212) 998-3743
Fax:  (212) 995-3820
Email: rampin@is3.nyu.edu
 

New York Professional Development

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Project Atmosphere AERAs

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Maury Project Peer Trainers

The GLOBE Program

NASA Education Resources

National Center for Geolgraphic Information and Analysis (NCGIA)

NOVA

 

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Project Atmosphere AERAs
http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/amsedu/index.html

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 New York

Geoffrey Briggs
5864 Torrey Road
Stafford, NY 14143
Phone:  (716) 344-0834
Fax:  (716) 344-0834
Email: gbriggs450@aol.com

Rose Marie Camarda
142 Mather St.
Syracuse, NY 13203
Phone:  (315) 479-8692
Fax:  (315) 479-8692
Email: rmcamard@freeside.scsd. k12.ny.us

Carol Hildreth
711 Broadway
Mechanicville, NY 12118
Phone:  (518) 664-5340
Fax:  (518) 664-7226
Email: hildr711@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 New York

Mary Bishop
151 Albany Ave.
Kingston, NY 12401
Phone:  (914) 338-0399
Email: mbishop148@aol.com

Edward Crawford
145 High Street
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
Phone:  (914) 478-3488

Keri-Jene Degnan
1319 Lakeside Drive
Wantagh, NY 11793
Phone:  (516) 221-6103
Email:  schlopper@aol.com

Dr. Vivian Pokrzyk
610 Tuscarora Street
Lewiston, NY 14092
Phone:  (716) 754-8394
Email: viv942@aol.com

Lisa Stanley
29 W. 14th Road
Broad Channel, NY 11693
Phone:  (718) 634-0498
Email: nych2o@hotmail.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 Capital Region Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Albany
Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Ms. Laura J. Lehtonen, Science Coordinator
Capital Region Board of Cooperative Educational Services
6 British American Blvd., Ste. G
Latham, NY 12110
Phone: (518) 786-3277
Fax: (518) 786-3245
Email: llehtone@mum.neric.org
Franchise Homepage :
http://www.neric.org/

GLOBE at Broome-Tioga Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Binghamton
Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Mr. Harry T. Barnes, Instructional Coordinator
Environmental Studies
Broome-Tioga Board of Cooperative Educational Services
435 Glenwood Rd.
Binghamton, NY 13905
Phone: (607) 763-3392
Fax: (607) 763-3336
Email: hbarnes@btboces.stier.org

GLOBE at Mountain Top Arboretum, Hunter
Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Ms. Cyndi LaPierre
Mountain Top Arboretum
P.O. Box 401
Hunter, NY 12442
Phone: (518) 263-4442
Fax: (518) 263-5321
Email: p.lapierre@mci2000.com

GLOBE at Cayuga Nature Center, Ithaca
Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Dr. Janet Hawkes, Executive Director
Cayuga Nature Center
1420 Taughannock Blvd.
Ithaca, NY 14850
Phone: (607) 273-6260
Fax: (607) 273-1719
Email: jeh34@cornell.edu
Franchise Homepage:
http://www.fcinet.com/cnc/

GLOBE at Fulton-Montgomery Education Initiative Consortium, Johnstown
Franchise Coordinator:
Mr. Richard Prestopnik
Dean of Business and Technology
Fulton Montgomery Community College
2805 State Hwy 67
Johnstown, NY 12095
Phone: (518) 762-4651 x3603
Fax: (518) 762-4334
Email: rprestop@fmcc.suny.edu

Training Point-of-Contact :
Ms. Daryl Pierce
Boulevard Elementary School
East Boulevard
Gloversville, NY 12078
Phone: (518) 725-9212
Fax: (518) 725-9216
Email: darylbil@superior.net

GLOBE at Orleans/Niagara Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Lockport
Franchise Coordinator :
Dr. Douglas A. David
Supervisor of Instructional Services
Orleans/Niagara Board of Cooperative Educational Services
195 Beattie Ave.
Lockport, NY 14094
Phone: (716) 439-4334
Fax: (716) 439-4314
Email: ddavid@wzrd.com

Training Point-of-Contact :
Mr. Robert Hazen
Orleans/Niagara Teacher Center
Orleans/Niagara Board of Cooperative Educational Services
195 Beattie Ave.
Lockport, NY 14094
Phone: (716) 439-4313
Fax: (716) 439-4314
Email: rhazen@wzrd.com

GLOBE at Monroe #1 Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Penfield
Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Ms. Bonnie Garner, Project Director
Instructional Technology
Monroe #1 Board of Cooperative Educational Services
2596 Baird Road
Penfield, NY 14526
Phone: (716) 383-6602
Fax: (716) 381-9074
Email: bgarner@mail.monroe.edu
Franchise Homepage :
http://www.monroe.edu/

GLOBE at Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie
Franchise Coordinator :
Mr. Wayne R. Gilchrest
Director
DCC Norrie Point Environmental Site
Dutchess Community College
53 Pendell Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-1595
Phone: (914) 889-4830
Fax: (914) 889-4117
Email: wrgilchrest@hotmail.com

Training Point-of-Contact :
Mr. Patsy Cicala
DCC Norrie Point Environmental Site
Dutchess Community College
53 Pendell Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-1595
Phone: (914) 889-4830
Fax: (914) 889-4117

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.

The National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA)
http://www.ncgia.ucsb .edu/sb/sb ncgia.html

The National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) is engaged in research with computer technologies that enable scientists and policy makers to visualize geographic problems through maps, images, and data.  Integral parts of the NCGIA's functions include educational outreach to the academic and professional worlds and collaboration with partners from education, government, and the private sector.

NCGIA-Buffalo
http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/ ncgia/

NCGIA-Buffalo currently offers intensive, non-credit training programs in GIS software applications, and may in the future extend the program to include instruction in other software packages. These three- to five-day courses are designed for participants from both the public and the private sectors of the community.

NCGIA
State University of New York at Buffalo
301 Wilkeson Quad
Box 610023
Buffalo, New York 14261-0023
Phone: (716) 645-2545
Fax: (716) 645-5957
Email: ncgia@acsu.buffalo.edu

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

ST. JOHN FISHER COLLEGE
3690 East Avenue
Rochester, NY  14618

Allen Emerson, Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Phone:  (716) 385-8407
Email:  emerson@sjfc.edu

Carol Freeman, Associate Professor
Department of Math, Science & Technology Education
Phone: (716) 385-8132
Fax:  (716) 385-8129
Email: freeman@sjfc.edu

Larry Pound, Associate Professor
Department of Education
Phone: (716) 385-8366
Email: pound@sjfc.edu

Sheila Brady Root,Professor
Department  of Math, Science, and Technology Education
Phone: (716) 385-8452
Email:  sroot@sjfc.edu

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO
Route 104
Oswego, NY  13126

Alok Kumar, Associate Professor
Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences
Phone: (315) 341-2695
Email:  kumar@oswego.edu

Jack Narayan
Interim Dean of Graduate Studies
Department of Mathematics
Phone: (315) 341-3692
Fax:  (315) 341-3577 or 3177
Email:  narayan@oswego.edu

Carlton Salvagin, Professor
Department of Technology, School of Education
Phone: (315) 341-3363
Email:  salvagin@oswego.edu

New York Student Programs

Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Honorarium. Student Internship of the New York State Geological Survey, New York State Museum

Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
http://rainbow.ldeo.colum bia.edu/ees/

Columbia University offers three courses in The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, about the Earth and how the Earth system works: Climate System, Solid Earth, and Life.

Morningside Heights
560 Schermerhorn
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
Robi Simpson
Phone: (212) 854-4525
Fax: (212) 854-7975
Email: res2@columbia.edu

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
P.O. Box 1000
Palisades, NY 10964
Mia Leo, Department Administrator
Phone: (914) 365-8550
Fax: (914) 365-2312
Email: mia@ldeo.columbia.edu
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/

Graduate student cash awards for one year to support geologic research in New York State that emphasizes or uses field mapping. Content includes geophysics/remote sensing, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geologic hazards, and other subjects. Scholarship, Fellowship, Internship; Award: $1,000 maximum. Proposals may be sent to all Northeastern U.S. universities and colleges with graduate geology programs in the Spring of each year.

Contact:
Robert H. Fakundiny
3140 Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230
Phone:  (518) 474-5816
Fax:  (518) 473-8496
Email: rfakundi@mail.nysed.gov