Beth Pratt-Sitaula

Education and Community Engagement

UNAVCO

Beth Pratt-Sitaula is a Science Education Project Manager for UNAVCO, Research Associate at Central Washington University (CWU), and Academic Director for SIT’s Nepal: Geoscience in the Himalaya. She has extensive experience with geoscience and geohazard education. With UNAVCO she is the project manager for GEodesy Tools for Societal Issues project. With CWU, she has been a PI on Cascadia EarthScope Earthquake and Tsunami Education Program (CEETEP) and EarthScope Alaska Native Geoscience Learning Experience (ANGLE).

Project Leader, Webinar Leader, Workshop Leader, Website Contributor, Reviewer

Project Leader

EarthScope ANGLE part of EarthScope ANGLE
Through a grant from the EarthScope Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF), ANGLE offers educator professional development workshops and helps teach student academies for the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP). EarthScope ANGLE contributes to increasing Alaskan resilience to geohazards through education and the development of an action-oriented statewide learning community.

GETSI - GEodesy Tools for Societal Issues part of GETSI
The GETSI teaching materials feature geodetic data and quantitative skills applied to societally important issues (climate change, natural hazards, water resources, environmental management). These materials were ...

Website Content Contributions

Course Module (1), Activities (13), Courses (3), Essay (1), Conference Presentations (10), Other Contributions (3)

Course Module (1)

Measuring Water Resources part of Measuring Water Resources
Measuring water resources such as groundwater and snowpack is challenging, but the advent of satellite gravity measurements and hydrologic GPS applications can augment traditional methods. This module gives ...

GETSI Developed This material was developed and reviewed through the GETSI curricular materials development process.
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Activities (13)

Volcano Monitoring with GPS: Westdahl Volcano Alaska part of EarthScope ANGLE:Educational Materials:Activities
Learners use graphs of GPS position data to determine how the shape of Westdahl Volcano, Alaska is changing. If the flanks of a volcano swell or recede, it is a potential indication of magma movement and changing ...

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Courses (3)

Geoscience Field Issues Using High-Resolution Topography to Understand Earth Surface Processes part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Courses
The objective of the course is to train students in manual and remote sensing methods of topographic data collection, including 1) GPS/GNSS surveys, 2) structure from motion (SfM), and 3) ground-based (terrestrial ...

Global Issues in the Sciences--Living with our Earth: Earth science case studies from the Pacific NW and Himalaya part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:Structure, Geophysics, and Tectonics 2012:Courses
Seminar style course that explores basic geologic systems through the lens of better understanding natural and manmade catastrophes in the Pacific Northwest and the Himalaya and how we, personally and as societies, ...

Central Washington University - Pacific Northwest Geology part of Teacher Preparation:Resource Collections:Courses
The course has a duel role of providing future secondary earth science teaching majors with more detailed geologic content knowledge of the Pacific NW (where most of them end up teaching) and providing them ...

Essay (1)

From the hyper-local to global: UNAVCO's vision for sustainability in earth education part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Earth Education for Sustainable Societies:Essays
Beth Bartel, Beth Pratt-Situala, Donna Charlevoix, and Shelley Olds, UNAVCO UNAVCO, a non-profit university consortium, operates the NSF's Geodetic Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (GAGE). Beth ...

Conference Presentations (10)

Integrating geodesy technology into undergraduate field education courses part of Rendezvous 2015:Program:Abstracts
Fieldwork is an integral part of the geosciences and there is a longstanding tradition of teaching field methods as part of the undergraduate earth sciences curriculum. As new technology changes the ways in which ...

Other Contributions (3)

Teaching for a Changing World: Water resources and melting ice part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2020:Program:Morning Workshops:Teaching for a Changing World: Water resources and melting ice
Integrating cutting edge data and quantitative skills into introductory courses can be challenging. The GEodesy Tools for Societal Issues (GETSI) project has developed a suite of undergraduate teaching modules to ...

Exploring Geohazard Data Portals and Related Teaching Activities part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program:Afternoon Mini-Workshops
This workshop will give participants the chance to explore a range of simple data portals related to plate tectonics and geohazards, as well as associated teaching activities. Portals will includeUNAVCO GPS/GNSS ...

Theme Group 1: Earth Science for Secondary Teachers - Connection to Place part of Teacher Preparation:Workshops and Activities:Workshop 2007
Group Members Beth Pratt-Sitaula, Pacific Northwest Geology Gary Solar, Geology of New York State Amy Ellwein, Geobotany Joel Johnson, Earth System Science for Teachers Approach to Teaching the Course What ...

Communities

Member of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Southwest Section
On the Cutting Edge Activity Reviewer
43 activities reviewed
Earth Educators' Rendezvous 2022
July 2022 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2015
July 2015 Advocacy Interest Group
NGSS Tagging Camp EER 2019
Teach the Earth
UNAVCO Geodesy Materials
UNAVCO Page Editors
NAGT All
Compass Interest Group
Understanding Our Changing Climate Interest Group
Surface Process Hazards Interest Group
NAGT Webinar Series Interest
Planning for Failure: Landslide Analysis for a Safer Society Interest Group
Earth Educators' Rendezvous Interest Group
Geo2YC Community
EER 2020 Activity Reviewers
Teaching Computation Interest Group
Teaching Geoscience Online
Monitoring Volcanoes and Communicating Risks Interest Group
Measuring Water Resources Interest Group
Analyzing High Resolution Topography with TLS and SfM
Eyes on the Hydrosphere: Tracking Water Resources Interest Group
Flood Hazards Interest Group
Imaging Active Tectonics Interest Group
Measuring the Earth with GPS Interest Group
Ice Mass and Sea Level Change Change interest Group
High Precision Positioning with Static and Kinematic GPS Interest Group
GPS, Strain, and Earthquakes
GETSI Community

Workshop Leader

EER 2020 Teaching about Water Resources and Melting Ice Using GETSI
July 2020ITG webinar Addressing Water Resources and Sustainability in Upper-level Undergraduate Courses
October 2016GETSI February 2014 Authors
February 2014

Workshop Participant (32 workshops)

Earth Educators' Rendezvous 2021
July 2021 Project EDDIE Module Development Workshop 2019
October 2019 Online Data Sets 2015
May 2015 Presenter

Webinar Leader (4 webinars)

Teaching undergrads about floods: frequency, modeling, and mitigation
September 2020NAGT Webinar: Suddenly Teaching Geoscience Online
April 2020Webinar: Teaching Landslide Analysis to Undergraduates: Planning for Failure and a Safer Society
March 2020

Webinar Participant (26 webinars)

Towards a more inclusive geosciences: Teaching strategies and policies to support all students
May 2022 Inclusive communities of research and scholarly activities: some considerations for best practices
April 2022 Climate Survey of the Geosciences: Disproportionate impacts on historically excluded groups
February 2022