NAGT Needs Your Photos
Posted: May 17 2013
The NAGT Executive Director's Office is looking for members willing to share their geology-related photos. Generally, we are looking for images that can be used on the NAGT website as well as in publications. More specifically, we are looking for images from Colorado to use in the program for the Annual Meeting at GSA this fall in Denver.

If you have images to share with NAGT, just go to the upload form on the website and either upload your photo or give us the URL if it is already online (such as in a Flickr stream).
http://nagt.org/nagt/news/photo_upload.html

NAGT Robert Christman Award
Posted: May 17 2013
NAGT is soliciting nominations for the 2013 Robert Christman Distinguished Service Award. This award was established by the Executive Committee in April, 2008 to recognize individuals who have provided long, distinguished service to the Association at the national and/or section level. If you know of someone deserving of this kind of recognition for their work with NAGT, please nominate them.

More information about the award and the nomination/selection process is available on the award's webpage.
http://nagt.org/nagt/programs/christman.html

2013 AGU Heads and Chairs Workshop
Posted: May 17 2013
The 2013 AGU Heads and Chairs workshop at Fall Meeting will take place on Sunday 8 December 2013 from 8:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Save the date. This year's program will highlight topics such as improving workplace climate, using advisory boards, and effective time management. The program and registration form are now available. Please forward this note to others in your networks who might be interested. You don't have to be an AGU member to attend this workshop. The workshop itself is free!
Website - http://education.agu.org/professionals/heads-chairs/
Program - http://serc.carleton.edu/departments/heads-chairs13/index.html
Registration - http://serc.carleton.edu/departments/heads-chairs13/registration.html

Pranoti Asher , Ph.D.
Manager, Education and Public Outreach
American Geophysical Union

Exciting New Website Links Mount St. Helens Science to Classrooms around the World
Posted: May 17 2013
An interactive, multi-media website is being unveiled by the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and Mount St. Helens Institute in commemoration of the upcoming 33rd anniversary of the May 18, 1980 eruption (http://www.mshslc.org). The website combines photographs and scientist interviews to chronicle the story of 30 years of change and discovery in North America's most celebrated natural laboratory and classroom.

Invitation to apply for GIFT workshop at the 2013 AGU Fall Meeting
Posted: May 17 2013
Invitation to apply for GIFT workshop at the 2013 AGU Fall Meeting

Call for Proposals: 13th Annual STEM Education Conference
Posted: May 17 2013
Triangle Coalition for Science and Technology Education is now seeking speakers for the 13th Annual STEM Education Conference. The purpose of the conference is to identify and share novel ideas that advance STEM education in the U.S., as well as "best practices" that have raised the bar for STEM at the local, state, and national level.

Call for Proposals: The 11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences
Posted: May 17 2013
We are pleased to announce the call for proposals for the 11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. The conference will take place June 23-27, 2014 in Boulder, Colorado, USA. We want ...

The Water Cycle for Kids
Posted: May 17 2013
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have teamed up to create a water-cycle diagram for kids and elementary and middle schools. It is also available in Spanish and a number of other languages.

The diagram can be found at http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle-kids.html.

Competition Announcement: Connect4Climate's iChange Global Competition for the Best Public Service Announcement
Posted: May 17 2013
The World Bank and TVN Media Group, in partnership with leading media networks and communications-focused academic institutions, are launching iChange : a new global competition for the best Public Service Announcement (PSA) that addresses climate change issues and action. We are inviting all students from universities worldwide to participate by submitting an original, 30-second video ad on climate change.

Special issue in HESS on Education in Hydrology
Posted: May 17 2013
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is an interactive, open-access journal from the European Geosciences Union. In 2012 they published a special issue on Hydrology Education in a Changing World. All the abstracts and articles for this issue are available on the HESS website - http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/special_issue152.html. The 28 articles in the issue include:

• Hydrological education and training needs in sub-Saharan Africa: requirements, constraints and progress
  
• Moving university hydrology education forward with community-based geoinformatics, data and modeling resources
  
• Irrigania - a web-based game about sharing water resources
  
• Reframing hydrology education to solve coupled human and environmental problems