• Geographic Alliance Network
• NASA Education Resources
• Oregon 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.

Oregon Geographic Alliance
http://geog.pdx.edu/oga

Teresa L. Bulman
Portland State University
Department of Geography
1721 S.W. Broadway
Portland OR 97201
Phone:  (503) 725 3167
Fax:  (503) 725 3166
Email:  bulmant@pdx.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.

George H. Taylor
Oregon Climate Service
316 Strand Ag Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR 97331-2209
Phone: (541) 737-5705
Fax: (541) 737-5710
Email: taylor@oce.orst.edu
http://www.ocs.orst.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.

Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries 910 State Office Building
1400 SW Fifth Avenue
Portland, OR 97201
Phone: 503-229-5580
http://sarvis.dogami .state.or.us/homepage/

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_or@usgs.gov
10615 S.E. Cherry Blossom Dr.
Portland, OR 97216
Phone: (503) 251-3265
Fax: (503) 251-3470
Office hours: 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time

USGS Programs in Oregon
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 Oregon: http://water.usgs.gov/ pubs/FS/FS-037-96/

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Project Atmosphere AERAs

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Maury Project Peer Trainers

NASA Education Resources

NOVA

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 Oregon

Steve Carlson
17575 Braden Ct.
Gladstone, OR 97027
Phone:  (503) 794-9249
Fax:  (503) 654-4341
Email: carlson@hermiston.k12.or.us< /a>

Roy Chambers
4410 NE 36 th Ave.
Portland, OR 97211
Phone:  (503) 288-3216
Fax:  (503) 288-3216
Email: bscience@teleport.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 Oregon

Warren Austin
902 Normandy Avenue, South
Salem, OR 97302
Phone:  (503) 585-5379
Email: austin_ed@stmpgate. salkeiz.k12.or.us

Agga-Beth Berg
4630 Acacia Drive
Corvallis, OR 97330
Phone:  (541) 753-8710
Email: Betsy-Berg@corvallis.K12. OR.US

Michelle Dumas
3909 N. Winchell
Portland, OR 97217
Phone:  (503) 289-0861
Email: mdumas@pps.k12.or.us

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.

NOVA
http://www.eng.ua.edu/~nova

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

GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY
414 N. Meridian
Newberg, OR  97132

Kevin Carr
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
Phone:  (503) 554-2853
Email:  kcarr@georgefox.edu

Jonas Cox
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
Phone:  (503) 554-2853
Email:  jcox@georgefox.edu

Dwight Kimberly
Professor
Department of Science
Phone:  (503) 554-2708
Email:  dkimber@georgefox.edu