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

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.

Utah Geographic Alliance
http://www.usu.edu/~cliff/UGA.html

Cliff Craig
Department of Geography
Natural Resources Building, Room 213
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-5240
Phone: (801) 797-1372
Fax: (801) 797-4048
Email: CBCraig@cc.usu.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.

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.

Utah Geological Survey
1594 West North Temple
P.O. Box 146100
Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6100
Phone:  (801) 537-3300
Fax:  (801) 537-3400
http://www.ugs.state.ut.us/

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_ut@usgs.gov
1745 West 1700 South
Rm 1016 Administrative Building
Salt Lake City, UT 84104
Phone: (801) 975-3350
Fax: (801) 975-3424
Office hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mountain Time

USGS Programs in Utah
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 Utah:
http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/FS/FS-044-96/

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.

Dr. Don T. Jensen
Utah State Climatologist
Utah Climate Center
Utah State University
4825 University Blvd.
Logan UT 84322-4825
Phone: (435) 797-2190
Fax: (435) 797-2117
Email: djensen@cc.usu.edu

• Electronic High School's Earth Systems Science Class for Utah Students
• Internet Site for Western Water Resource Issues
• USGS Earth Shots:  Satellite Images of Environmental Change

Earth Systems combines a study of biologic, atmospheric, hydrologic, geologic, energy, and space systems for a comprehensive examination of Earth's dynamic networks.  The Earth Systems class looks at the Earth as a synergistic entity by focusing on matter cycles, energy flows, and life webs within the various systems.

Links to water resource issues of particular interest to Western States residents and students. Includes these links:

Issues:  Dams, Floods, Drought, Acid Rain, Unsaturated Zone, Super Fund,
Water Quality, Rangeland

Regions:  AZ Cities, San Pedro, Mexican Border, Arizona, California,
Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado River Basin, Mississippi River Basin

Organizations: Water Resource Centers, Press, Federal, Environmental,
Monitoring

Earthshots is an "ebook" of before-and-after Landsat images (1972-present), showing recent environmental events and introducing remote sensing. Earthshots comes from the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls S.D., the world's largest archive of earth science data and the official National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive. Satellite images with some interpretation, links to other data, references.

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

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.

Utah State University
Dr. Jim Evans
Department of Geology
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-5215
Phone:  (801) 797-1267
Fax:  (801) 797-1588
Email: jpevans@cc.usu.edu
 

• American Meteorological Society (AMS) Maury Project Peer Trainers
• The GLOBE Program
• NASA Education Resources

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 Utah

James Lindsay
121 N. 400 W.
Clearfield, UT 84015
Phone:  (801) 776-2396
Email: jlindsay@admin.lhs.davis.k12.ut.us

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 Rocky Mountain NASA Space Grant Consortium, Logan
Franchise Coordinator:
Dr. John Vanderford
Outreach Coordinator
Rocky Mountain NASA Space Grant Consortium
Engineering Building -- Room EL-302
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-4140
Phone: (435) 797-3568
Fax: (435) 797-3382
Email: rmc@sdl.usu.edu

Training Point-of-Contact :
Dr. Donald Jensen, Director
Utah Climate Center
Rocky Mountain NASA Space Grant Consortium
Ag. Sci. Bldg, room 132
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-4825
Phone: (435) 797-2190
Fax: (435) 797-2117
Email: djensen@cc.usu.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.

Department of Geography and Earth Resources, Utah State University

Areas of Concentration at the Department of Geography and Earth Resources are: Climatology; Environmental Education; Geography Education; GIS/Remote Sensing & Automated Cartography; Physical/Ecology; River Processes/Fluvial Geomorphology; and Rural Development/International Rural Development/Land Use Planning/Land Use Analysis.

Department of Geography and Earth Resources
College of Natural Resources
Utah State University
Logan, Utah 84322-5240
Phone:  (435) 797-1790
Fax:  (435) 797-4048

Contact for Graduate Program:
Derrick J. Thom
Professor and Associate Dean
Department of Geography and Earth Resources
Phone:  (435) 797-1292
Fax (435) 797-4048
Email:   djthom@cc.usu.edu