• Geographic Alliance Network
• NASA Education Resources
• South 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 alliances-grass roots 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.

South Dakota Geographic Alliance
http://www.geography.sdstate.edu/alliance/alliance.html

Charles "Fritz" Gritzner
South Dakota State University
Department of Geography
Brookings, SD 57007-0648
Phone: (605) 688-4613
Fax: (605) 688-4030
Email: Charles_Gritzner@sdstate.edu

NASA's State-Based Electronic Notebook is the source for NASAand aerospace education in your state.  Includes links to K-universitylevel education contacts, resources, and information.

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. Alan R. Bender
Agricultural Engineering Department
South Dakota State University
Brookings SD 57007
Phone:  (605) 688-5678
Fax:  (605) 688-4917
Email: bender.al@ces.sdstate.edu
http://www.abs.sdstate.edu/ae/weather/weather.htm

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.

South Dakota Geological Survey
Department of Water and Natural Resources
Science Center
University of South Dakota
Vermillion, SD 57069
Phone: 605-677-5227
http://www.sdgs.usd.edu/

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_sd@usgs.gov
1608 Mt. View Rd.
Rapid City, SD 57702
Phone: (605) 394-1780
Fax: (605) 394-5373
Office hours: 6:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mountain Time

USGS Programs in South 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 USGSactivities in South Dakota: http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/FS/FS-041-96/
 

The Cooperative University-based Program for Earth System Science (ESSE)
http://www.usra.edu/esse/essonline/

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.

Participant:  South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Contact:
Edward F. Duke
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
501 East Saint Joseph St.
Rapid City, South Dakota   57701-3995
Phone: (605) 394-2388
Fax: (605) 394-5360
Email: eduke@silver.sdsmt.edu

K-12 Professional Development Opportunities

• American Meteorological Society (AMS) Project Atmosphere AERAs
• American Meteorological Society (AMS) Maury Project Peer Trainers
• The GLOBE Program
• 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 eachyear 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 South Dakota

Sandy Dyson
Box 301
Kennebec, SD 57544
Phone:  (605) 869-2497
Fax:  (605) 869-2455
Email: sdyson@wcenet.com

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 South Dakota

Eugene Bormann
P.O. Box 68
Mission Hill, SD 57046
Phone:  (605) 665-3539
Email: ebormann@iw.net

Kenneth Graupmann
Box 111 101 Bayberry
Kadoka, SD 57543
Phone:  (605) 837-2814
Email: kengraupmann@mailexcite.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.

The University of Mary, Bismarck, ND,  has undertaken responsibility for recruiting GLOBE schools, training GLOBE teachers and mentoring GLOBE students in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming.

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

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.

BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY
1200 University Avenue
Spearfish, SD  57799

John Alsup, Assistant Professor
Department of Education/Mathematics
Phone:  (605) 642-6108
Email:  jalsup@mystic.bhsu.edu

Charles Lamb, Professor
College of Arts & Sciences
Phone:  (605) 642-6026
Email:  clamb@mystic.bhsu.edu

Derrick Lavoie, Associate Professor
College of Education
Phone:  (605) 642-6235
Fax:  (605) 642-6032
Email:  dlavoie@mystic.bhsu.edu