• Geographic Alliance Network
• NASA Education Resources
• State Geological Survey
• Virginia State Climatologist
• 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.

Virginia Geographic Alliance
http://www.runet.edu/~geog-web/alliance/vga.html

Joe Enedy
Department of Geography
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
Phone: (540) 568-6199
Fax: (540) 568-8741
Email: enedyjd@jmu.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.

Virginia Division of Mineral Resources
Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy
P.O. Box 3667
Charlottesville, VA 22903
http://www.mme.state.va.us/DMR/home.dmr.html

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. Patrick J. Michaels
Virginia State Climate Office
Clark Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville VA 22903
Phone: (804) 924-0549  or  7761

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_va@usgs.gov
1730 East Parham Road
Richmond, VA 23228
Phone: (804) 261-2600
Fax: (804) 261-2659
Office hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Eastern Time

USGS Programs in Virginia
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 Virginia: http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/FS/FS-046-96/
 

• American Meteorological Society (AMS) Project Atmosphere AERAs
• American Meteorological Society (AMS) Maury Project Peer Trainers
• The GLOBE Program
• NASA Education Resources
• Virginia Mathematics and Science Coalition

• 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 Virginia

Joseph Joyner
5101 Middlebrook Court
Virginia Beach, VA 23464
Phone: 757-495-1136
Fax:  757-495-1136
Email:  jjoyner@pinn.net

Dr. Juanita (Jo) Matkins
624 Yanceyville Rd.
Louisa, VA 23093
Phone:  (540) 894-4991
Fax:  (540) 894-4991
Email: jmatkins@mnsinc.com

JoAnn Mulvany
8357 Compass Dr.
Mechanicsville, VA 23116
Phone:  (804) 746-3858
Fax:  (804) 746-3858
Email: jmulvany@pen.k12.va.us

Walter Sanford
Carl Sandburg Middle School
Planetarium
8428 Fort Hunt Road
Alexandria, VA 22308
Phone:  (703) 799-6100
Email:  wsanford@wsanford.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.

Katherine Cummings
1246 Mill Lake Quarter
Chesapeake, VA 23320
Phone:  (757) 547-1955
Email:  sallykat98@yahoo.com

Dr. John Fornshell
6911 Quander Rd.
Alexandria, VA 22307
Phone:  (703) 768-6258
Email: jfornshe@lan.tjhsst.edu

Denise Hagood
44084 Saxony Terrace
Ashburn, VA 20147
Phone: (703) 723-1176
Email: doogahw@aol.com

Lynda Harris
12724 Sawdust Dr.
Glen Allen, VA 23060
Phone:  (804) 360-2127
Email: lhharris@pen.K12.va.us

Richard Humble
120 Songbird Trail
Yorktown, VA 23692
Phone:  (757) 898-9306
Email: chumble@mail.whro.org

Beth Jewel
6147 Strasburg Dr.
Centreville, VA 20121
Phone:  (703) 266-2059
Email: fin2fluke@hotmail.com

Patricia McKinstry
11671 Gilman Ln.
Herdon, VA 22070-2420
Phone:  (703) 450-0642
Email: tmckinst@pen.k12.va.us

Debra Mosher
2019 Fox's Lair Trail
Norfolk, VA 23518
Phone:  (804) 857-4754
Email: DDCMOSHER@msn.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 the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg
Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Ms. Nancy West
College of William and Mary
211 Matoaka Ct.
Williamsburg, VA 23187
Phone: (757) 221-6695
Fax: (757) 221-2988
Email: nancyww@mindspring.com

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.

The Virginia Mathematics and Science Coalition is an alliance of leaders of the education, corporate, and public policy sectors, working together to revitalize mathematics and science education, pre-kindergarten through graduate school.  At the website listed above, teachers can find out more about Coalition activities, access an index of professional development activities, and link to a variety of other quality mathematics and science sites.

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.
 
HAMPTON UNIVERSITY
Hampton, VA 23668

Kwesi Ewur
Associate Professor
School of Science
Queen and Tyler Streets
Phone:  (757) 727-5830

Dianne Q. Robinson
Director
Interdisciplinary Science Center
P. O. Box 6142
Phone: (757) 727-5869/5445
Fax:  (757) 728-6989
Email:  drobinso@infi.net

Donald Whitney
Assistant Dean
School of Science
Queen and Tyler Streets
Phone:  (757) 727-5795
Email:  whitney@cs.hamptonu.edu