• Geographic Alliance Network
• NASA Education Resources
• North Dakota 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.
NGS Geographic Education Program:

North Dakota Geographic Alliance
http://www.mas u.nodak.edu/instruct/balachan/ndga

Eric Clausen, Director
North Dakota Geographic Alliance
Minot State University
P.O. Box 62
Minot, ND 58707
Phone: (701) 858-3063
Fax: (701) 858-3165
Email: clausen@misu.nodak.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.

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.

John W. Enz
Agricultural Climatology
State Climatologist for North Dakota
Dept of Soil Science, Box 5638
North Dakota State University
Fargo ND 58105
Phone: (701) 231-8576
Fax: (701) 231-7861
Email: jenz@badlands.nodak.edu
http://www.soilsci.ndsu.nodak .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.

North Dakota Geological Survey
University Station
Grand Forks, ND 58202-8156
Phone:  (701) 777-2231
http://www.state.nd.us/ndgs/
 

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_nd@usgs.gov
821 E. Interstate Ave.
Bismarck, ND 58501-1199
Phone: (701) 250-7401
Fax: (701) 250-7492
Office hours: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time

USGS Programs in North Dakota
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 North Dakota: http://water.usgs.gov/ pubs/FS/FS-034-96/

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Project Atmosphere AERAs

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Maury Project Peer Trainers

The GLOBE Program

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 North Dakota

Mike Burton
340 Prairiewood Circle
Fargo, ND 58103
Phone:  (701) 241-9818
Fax:  (70) 241-9818
Email: mburton@sendit.nodak.edu

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 North Dakota

David Bartz
116 East Owens Ave.
Bismarck, ND 58501
Phone:  (701) 255-4010
Email: dbartz@educator.mci.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 The University of Mary, Bismarck
Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Dr. Krystyna Gorzelska
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Division of Mathematics/Natural Science
University of Mary
7500 University Drive
Bismarck, ND 58504-9652
Phone: (701) 255-7500
Fax: (701) 255-7687
Email: kgorzel@umary.edu

NASAís 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.