DLESE Community Services Center

Funding for DLESE Community Services has come to an end. These pages are provided for historical reference only.

Quarterly Reports of the DLESE Community Services Center:

K-12 Community

• First Quarter - 2005: http://www.dlese.org/documents/papers/KKST_StateofCollec_WP.pdf

Higher Education Community

Goals of DLESE Community Services:

The primary goals of the DLESE Community Service Center are:

1. increase the current resource user and contributor base to include greater numbers of K-12, informal, and college educators and students,
2. diversify the DLESE user and contributor base to include rich and robust representation of ethnic, cultural, and differently-abled groups,
3. improve the ability of users and contributors to easily find, adapt, and effectively use high quality digital resources in their classrooms, laboratories, and communities, and
4. demonstrate how DLESE can support community activity addressing issues in geoscience education.

Power Point presentation describing DLESE and the role of Community Services (PowerPoint 828kB Jul25 03)

Visit our websites:

• Integrating Research and Education
• Teaching Quantitative Skills in the Geosciences
• Using Data in the Classroom
• Preparing Teachers to Teach Earth Science
• DLESE Ambassador Program - Public Page: /comm/k12/K12_Amb_Public.html
• DLESE Ambassador Program - Ambassador Support Page: /comm/k12/dlesek12ambassadors.html

Community Services Team

K-12 Community Efforts will be lead by:

• *Bryan Aivazian, Project Manager, Natrona County School District, Casper, Wyoming
• Edward E. Geary, Senior Science Education Project Manager, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado

Higher Education Community Efforts will be lead by:

• *Cathy Manduca, Director of the Science Education Resource Center (SERC), at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
• Dave Mogk, Professor of Geology, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

(* denotes the primary contact person)