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

Washington Geographic Alliance
http://quest.vannet.k12.wa.us/~forweb/waga/waga.html

Rawhide Papritz
Green River Community College
Department of Geography
12401 S.E. 320th Street
Auburn, WA 98002-3699
Phone: (253) 833-9111 ext. 4378
Fax: (253) 931-6348
Email: rpapritz@grcc.ctc.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.

Division of Geology and Earth Resources
1111 Washington Street SE, Room 148
P.O. Box 47007
Olympia, WA 98504-7007
Phone:  (360) 902-1450
Email: geology@wadnr.gov
http://www.wa.gov/dnr/htdocs/ger/ger.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_wa@usgs.gov
1201 Pacific Ave., Suite 600
Tacoma, WA 98402
Phone: (253) 428-3600, ext. 2602
Fax: (253) 428-3614
Office hours: 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time

USGS Programs in Washington
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 Washington: http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/FS/FS-047-96/

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.

Mark Albright
Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
Box 351640
University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195
Phone: (206) 543-0448
Fax: (206) 543-0308
Email: marka@atmos.washington.edu

USGS Earth Shots:  Satellite Images of Environmental Change
Mount St. Helen's, WA
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/MtStHelens/MtStHelens

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.

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

• NOVA

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 Washington

Ann Babcock-Williamson
Carl Cozier Elementary School
1330 Lincoln
Bellingham, WA 98226
Phone: (360) 676-6410
Fax:  (360) 676-6578
Email: anwillia@coz.bham.wednet.edu

Guadalupe Barajas
141 Pansy Lane
Wapato, WA 98951
Phone:  (509) 877-1155

Marilyn Bridgan
4503 North 42nd Street, PO Box 7239
Tacoma, WA 98407-0239
Phone:  (253) 756-1672
Email: rickb@ix.netcom.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 Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:

GLOBE at the Institute of Marine Science, Seattle
Ms. Tedi H. Conway, Director
West Coast
Institute of Marine Science
1966 Westlake Avenue North, Suite 106
Seattle, WA 98109
Phone: (206) 283-8520
Fax: (206) 270-8537
Email: thconway@earthlink.net

Training Point-of-Contact :
Mr. Chris Burt
Institute of Marine Science
4320 South Walden Loop
Greenbank, WA 98253
Phone: (360) 331-5920
Fax: (206) 270-8537
Email: cburtims@whidbey.com
Franchise Homepage :
http://www.marinescience.org/

GLOBE at Heritage College, Toppenish
Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Dr. James W. Falco
Dean, Arts & Sciences
Heritage College
3240 Fort Rd.
Toppenish, WA 98948
Phone: (509) 865-2244
Fax: (509) 865-4469
Email: falco_j@heritage.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.

WHITWORTH COLLEGE
Spokane, WA  99251

Don Calbreath, Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
509 E Eaton
Phone:  (509) 466-1000 x 4506
Email:  dcalbreath@whitworth.edu

Lee Anne Chaney, Associate Professor
Department of Biology
N 10005 Andrew
Phone:   (509) 466-1000 x 4503
Email:  lachaney@whitworth.edu

Delbert Friesen, Associate Professor
Department of Physics
904 W. Westmont Way
Phone:  (509) 777- 4512
Email:  dfriesen@whitworth.edu

Lois Kieffaber, Professor
Department of Physics
520 E Silver Pines
Colbert, WA  99005
Phone:  (509) 777- 4207
Email:  lkieffaber@whitworth.edu

Barbara Sanders, Instructor
Department of Education
14514 S Sands Road
Valleyford, WA  99036
Phone: (509) 926-2682
Email: bsanders @whitworth.edu

Dennis Sterner
Associate Professor
   & Dean of the School of Education
Department of Biology
321 E Eaton
Phone: (509) 466-1000 x 4411
Email: dsterner@whitworth.edu
 
 

OUR Earth
http://www.waspacegrant.org/

Opportunities for Undergraduate Research in Earth System Science is an eight-week interdisciplinary summer research program for talented undergraduate students to the University of Washington to work with leading Earth science researchers. Students who have completed at least two years of college coursework toward a related science or engineering major are
eligible to apply. Faculty from the departments of Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Geological Sciences, Electrical Engineering and Polar Sciences work with the selected students to understand current earth science issues with an emphasis on the connections between traditional science disciplines.  Applications are due in early spring for each summer's program.