• Geographic Alliance Network
• NASA Education Resources
• State Geological Survey
• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

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.

Wisconsin Geographic Alliance
http://137.28.1.25/Academic/Geography/wga/wga.htm

Mark Bockenhauer
St. Norbert College
215 Boyle Hall, 100 Grant Street
DePere, WI 54115-2099
Phone: (920) 403-4086
Email:  Bockmh@mail.snc.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.

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.

Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
University of Wisconsin-Extension
3817 Mineral Point Road
Madison, WI 53705
Phone: (608) 262-1705
Fax: (608) 262-8086
http://www.uwex.edu/wgnhs/

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

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
8505 Research Way
Middleton, WI 53562-3581
Phone:  (608) 821-3801
Fax:  (608) 821-3817

USGS Programs in Wisconsin
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 Wisconsin:   http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/FS/FS-048-96/
 

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.

Participant:   University of Wisconsin
Contact:
Dr. Francis Bretherton
Space Science & Engineering Center
University of Wisconsin
1225 W. Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706
Email: fbretherton@ssec.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-7497
Fax: (608) 262-5974

• American Meteorological Society (AMS) Project Atmosphere AERAs
• American Meteorological Society (AMS) Maury Project Peer Trainers
• GLOBE
• 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 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 Wisconsin

Gerald Larson
369 Townsvalley Rd.
Hudson, WI 54016
Phone:  (715) 386-8957
Fax:  (715) 386-8957
Email: glarson@pressenter.com

Bruce Smith
4821 N. Brookshire Drive
Appleton, WI 54915
Phone:  (920) 733-0205
Fax:  (920) 733-6860
Email: bgsmi19@athenet.net

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 Wisconsin

Janet Langton
2010 Aspen Lane
Plover, WI 54467
Phone:  (715) 341-5264

Joe Moore
W. 1567 CTH-MM
Cleveland, WI 53015
Phone:  (414) 693-8506

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 Space Science Education, University of Wisconsin- Madison
Franchise Coordinator and Training Point-of-Contact:
Ms. Rosalyn A. Pertzborn
Research and Outreach Specialist
Office of Space Science Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Space Science and Engineering Center
1225 West Dayton St.
Madison, WI  53706
Phone:  (608) 265-4160
Fax:  (608) 262-5974
Email:  RoseP@ssec.wisc.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.

University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
La Crosse, WI  54601

Gubbi Sudhakaran
Chair and Professor
Department of Physics
2018 Cowley Hall
Phone: (608) 785-8431
Fax: (608) 785-8403
Email: sudhak@physics.uwlax.edu

University of Wisconsin - Superior
Superior, WI  54880

John Jay Rusch
Professor
Department of Education
MC104A
Phone: (715) 394-8309
Fax: (715) 394-8107
Email: jrusch@staff.uwsuper.edu