SITE/ INFO

CONTACT
Name/LTER-site relationship

LIST EDUC PROGRAMS and PI (SLTER, REU, GK-12, ETC)

COMPLEMENTARY
FUNDING

HOW are PI'S INVOLVED in SLTER ?

HOW are GRADS/ UNDERGRADS/POST-DOCS INVOLVED in SLTER ?

MAIN COMPONENTS OF SLTER Program

LINK TO EDUCATION WEBSITE

AND

Art McKee (Site Director, H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest)

 SLTER (McKee) REU (Harmon)

  Teachers in the Woods – NSF

NCSR – NSF

SMILE – Or State Univ

  Info providers via short courses

  As interns for teacher enhancements

1)SMILE (Science and Math Investigative Learning Experiences), 2)"Scientific Inquiry" Workshop for K-12 Teachers

$15k goes to supplies, materials, travel, participant support

http://www.fsl.orst.edu/lter/about/opportun.htm

ARC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BES

Alan Berkowitz (Head of Education,
Institute of Ecosystem Studies)
Other?

 REU

Supplements – some from IES, UMEB,

  NSF – to BES and to IES, NSF-through Towson, NSF through Cornell Univ.

  Help produce materials, teach workshops, work with teachers, work with students

  Some (limited) work with teachers

  1.Investigatin urban ecoystems course for educators, 2. seed funds, for schoolyard studies for educators

http://www.ecostudies.org/bes/

BNZ

Elena Sparrow (Associate
Professor and
Coordinator
BNZ SLTER)

 

GLOBE (supported by NSF), NSF – EHR-TE, NSF-EPSCoR, NAU/EPA, NASA/Ak dept of Natl Resources

  Mentors, lecturers, science fair judges

  Mentors, science fair judges

PROVIDE TEACHER TRAINING FOR GLOBE and other science programs, mentoring teachers and students

http://www.lter.uaf.develop web site. edu/SYLTER/schoolyard.htm

CAP

Monica Elser (Environmental Education Liaison, Center for Environmental Studies),
Charlene Saltz

Gk-12

IGERT

AZ Community Foundation (00), Motorola (98-01),

NSF - G-K 12 (2001-04)

 

  Instructors during summer internships and workshops, content support, classroom visits, field trips

1)Web-based protocols
and curriculum,
2) access to CAP-LTER data, 3) teacher training, in-class visits, data entry and retrieval

$15k goes to teacher support materials, teacher stipends, teacher workshops

http://caplter.asu.edu/explorers/

CDR

Peter Reich (LTER PI; Professor, Department of Forest Resources, UMN)

 

 

 

 

Long-term Prairie research plots set up on schoolgrounds

 

CWT

Brian Kloeppel (PI, COWEETA LTER),
Susan Steiner (TECHNICIAN, COWEETA HYDROLOGIC LAB)

 SLTER – Kloeppel

REU - Kloeppel

USDA Forest
Service
(staff time donation), primary schools
(vehicles, computer service, and equipment)

 Leading some SLTER presentations

 Not involved

GUIDE LTER-RELATED FIELD ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

$15K goes to teacher stipends, supplies, travel to educ workshops

http://sparc.ecology.uga.edu/webdocs/school/

FCE

Dan Childers (PI, FCE LTER PROF, DEPT OF BIOLOGY, FIU)

 3 REU and SLTER

 UMEB (NSF+) w/ close FCE ties

 3-6

 Through in-lab mentoring of hs teachers

 $15k is given as a subcontract to Miami museum of science

 

GCE

Carolyn Ruppel (LTER PI, PROF, GA TECH UNIV)

 

 

 

 

GUIDE LTER-RELATED FIELD ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHERS

http://gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/lter/education/education.htm

HFR

John O'Keefe (MUSEUM COORDINATOR)

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.lternet.edu/hfr/education/schoolyard/school.html

HBR

Kathy Fallon-Lambert (EXEC DIRECTOR, HBRF), Marianne Krasny (CORNELL UNIV)

 

NSF Graduate
Teaching Fellows in
K-12 ("GK-12") (need dates)

 

 

prducing Web-based Curriculum
activities focusing on LTER

http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/ext/lter/HBTest/HubbardBrook
Website/HBEducationHomepage.htm

JRN

Stephanie Bestelmeyer (DIRECTOR, CDNP)

NSF-REU (PI Laura Huenneke)

NSF – SLTER – PI – Laura Huenneke

Comp funding – USDA-ARS JRN Exp Range: saff time, logistical support, Chihuahuan Desert Nature Prk – nonprofit org that partners w/SLTER – EPA Env Educ grant to CDNP

  Help lead field trips and teacher workshiops, provide scientific backgrond for classroom programs, help students collect and analyze data

  Help lead field trips, help w/annual educ events, help students collect data

GUIDE LTER-RELATED FIELD ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

-SLTER Plots at schools, field trips, classroom presentations, teacher workshops

$15k goes to equipment for schools such as weather stations, stipends for teachers to attend workshops, supplies for teacher wkshops

http://www.cdnp.org/

KBS

Mike Klug (KBS LTER CO-PI, PROF, MSU)

 SLTER (DEB) andEHR

NSF-EHR three-year project was funded in June of 2001

  Involved in teacher workshops

 

$15k goes to minigrants and support of SLTER activities

http://www.kbs.msu.edu/K12_Partnership/Index.htm

KNZ

Valerie Wright (Environmental Educator/Naturalist
Konza Prairie)

 

Eisenhower Professional
Development Grant (dates) Private Foundation

 

 

$15k goes to teachers, stipends, salary (partial) for assistant and some supplies and equipment

http://www.ksu.edu/konza/keep/

LUQ

Ariel Lugo (co-pi, luq LTER)

 

UPR Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies and the USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry (NEED DATES)

 

 

A special issue of Acta Cientifica published by the Asociacion de Maestros de Ciencia de Puerto Rico, features SLTER-SUPPORTED research FROM PR HIGH SCHOOLS

http://outreach.ecology.uga.edu/wfl/home.htm ???

MCM

Barry Lyons (PI, MCM LTER)

 LTER, TEA, REU

 

  Provide information for teachers in class talks

  Some outreach to schools in form of talk and assist teachers in setting up program (w/I)

GUIDE LTER-RELATED FIELD ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

http://www.geo.ua.edu/lyonsden/schoolyard-LTER/

NTL

Robert Bohanon, Outreach Program Manager, Center for Biology Education, Uof Wisc

 Eisenhower professional development leadership, IGERT/GK-12

 Service learning

Center for Biology Education, Uof Wisc

Modeling In Nature (education Research)

NSF Educational Rsearch

REU

 REU

GK-12

Professional Development Seminars

 

 

$15K goes to salary of educ. coordinators

http://www.limnology.wisc.edu/K_12.html

NWT

Diane McKnight (NWT CO-PI and EDUC CONTACT, and Prof, dept of Civil, Environ. and Architectural Engineering, UC)

 

  none

  Peripherally very supportive

  Talking to kids

In-service and pre-service teachers take a course at the Mountain Research Station, learning ‘alpine ecology and experimental learning’ and children’s field trips during summer

$15k goes to stipends for teachers to take course, course support

http://culter.colorado.edu/Niwot/Niwot_Ridge_LTER_
outreach1.html

PAL

Karen Baker (PI, PAL-LTER, Educ Contact)

 REU, TEA

Teachers Experiencing Antarctica
program (NSF)

  Mentoring REU and TEA

  Field journalists

a) an education forum and reports; b) ad hoc pi collaborations and field journaling c) ongoing collaboration with NSF TEA, scouts and UCSD academic connections highschool summer program d)development of education materials;e) support of cross-site education activities; f)support of technology for education including metadata.

http://www.crseo.ucsb.edu/lter/education/

PIE

 Chuck Hopkinson (L-PI), MBL/Woods Hole MA

NSF-REU (PI?), MBL Semster in Science, K-12 HS Research, Middle school salt marsh science

 SLTER – and private foundation

  Program mentors

 

  $15K goes to HS Student research projects (Gov Dummer Academy) to support students. To Massachusetts Audubon to support teacher training and project coord.

 

SBC

Hunter Lenihan (Associate Investigator SBC LTER)

 SLTER and Jason project

 

 Lecturers and directing interns

 County watershed resource center (education center)

 

http://sbc.lternet.edu/outreach/index.html ??

SEV

Crawford Parmenter Eichorst

 UNM-biology Intership course

SLTER supported by Bosque School (ABQ), Bosque Initiative funds

 

GRAD STUDENT MANAGES DATA FORPROGRAM; UNDERGRADUATE 'INTERNSHIPS' LEADING LTER-RELATED FIELD ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

UNDERGRADS LEAD LTER-RELATED FIELD ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS, STUDENTS COLLECT AND PRESENT DATA, WHICH IS COMPARED TO ADULT-SCIENTIST'S DATA ON PROJECT. $15k goes to supplies for schools, drying ovens, bus money for transport to sites, balances, rain gauges, litterbags, etc.

http://sev.lternet.edu/research/outreach/school/

SGS

John Moore (University of Northern Colorado
Department of Biology)

NSF-Gk-12- (John Moore, PI)

REU – burke

RAMHSS – Moore

CLT - Moore

1) UNC Graduate School 1996-1998,
2) NSF TE Grant 1997-1999,
3) NSF GK-12 Grant
2000-2005

 

 Grad students assist SLTER students with sample processing and data analysis

 SLTER sites conduct research, teacher workshops in summer, field trips and classroom visits and web resources. $15k is spent on stipends for teacher, each school gets a budget for supplies and activities, meeting support, supplies for activities at field station

http://sgs.cnr.colostate.edu/EdWeb/EdSchoolyardLTER
/schoolyard_lter.htm

VCR

Randy Carlson (RESEARCH ASSISTANT, University of Virginia and PROJECT SITE MANAGER, VCR/LTER),
Dave Smith, Dpt of Env Sciences, UVA

 SLTER

REI – multiple PIs

  1)educational endowment dedicated to Eastern Shore Education

1)REU oversight

2) Teaching grad-level summer class for teachers 

  1)select graduate students involved in teacher enrichment activites

Teaching High School students to use (GPS),
(GIS), Water Quality Sampling and Analysis Plant Taxonomy and
a Herbarium Field trips to
research sites and VCR/LTER Laboratory Classroom activities
in GPS/GIS, Plant Taxonomy, Water chemistry SLTER Student Summer Program

Summer graduate class of math/science teachers

Supplement support ($15k) used to purchase high school and middle sch. Equip such as comptuers, GPS units, reference materials, water quality tet kits, Ntworked highschool to high-speed computer network, support two hs summer interns, support annual teacher participation in VCR-LTER all-scientist meeting, supported teacher graduate class during summer

http://www.vcrlter.virginia.edu/slter/