• Geographic Alliance Network
• NASA Education Resources
• Rhode Island State Climatologist
• State Geological Survey
• U.S. Geological Survey

The National Geographic Society's Geography Education Program has established a network of state geographic alliances-grassroots organizations composed mainly of K-12 teachers and university geographers-dedicated 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.

Rhode Island Geographic Alliance
http://www.ri.net/RIGeo/rigea/home.html

Anne K. Petry
Adams 122
Rhode Island College
600 Mt. Pleasant Ave.
Providence, RI 02908
Phone: (401) 456-8069
Fax: (401) 738-4284

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.

Mr. Carl D. Sawyer
Dept of Plant Sciences
9 East Alumni Avenue, Suite 7
University of Rhode Island
Kingston RI  02881-0804
Phone:  792-2937
Email: ltn101@uriacc.uri.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.

Rhode Island Geological Survey
Office of the State Geologist
Department of Geology
The University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881
Phone:  (401) 792-2265/2184
http://www.uri.edu/cels/gel/rigs.html

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_ri@usgs.gov
275 Promenade St., Suite 150
Providence, RI 02908
Phone: (401) 331-9050
Fax: (401) 331-9062
Office hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time

USGS Programs in Rhode Island
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 Rhode Island: http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/FS/FS-039-96/

• 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 localor state funds.

In Rhode Island

Brian Buck
66 Power St.
Portsmouth, RI 02871
Phone:  (401) 683-1723
Fax:  (401) 683-1723
Email: buckb@ride.ri.net

Maury Project Peer Trainers are Master precollege teachers trained in one of the AMS Summer training workshops held at the UnitedStates 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 Rhode Island

Barbara Walton-Faria
585 Aquidneck Ave.
Middletown, RI 02842
Phone:  (401) 848-7206
Email: sachuestpt@aol.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 Talcott Mountain Science Center, Avon, CT
Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Mr. Jonathan Craig
Talcott Mountain Science Center
Montevideo Rd.
Avon, CT 06001
Phone: (860) 677-8571
Fax: (860) 676-0421
Email: jcraig@g3.tmsc.org

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.