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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
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
Activities (4)
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 (2)
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 (9)
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 (2)
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 ...
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
22 activities reviewed
July 2015 Geo2YC Community
Earth Educators' Rendezvous Interest Group
Teaching Computation Interest Group
Teaching Geoscience Online
NAGT Webinar Series Interest
NAGT All
GETSI Community
NGSS Tagging Camp EER 2019
Analyzing High Resolution Topography with TLS and SfM
Ice Mass and Sea Level Change Change interest Group
GPS, Strain, and Earthquakes
Teach the Earth
Imaging Active Tectonics Interest Group
Workshop Leader
October 2016GETSI February 2014 Authors
February 2014
Workshop Participant (13 workshops)
October 2019 Online Data Sets 2015
May 2015 PresenterApplying Geodesy Data to Societally Important Questions in Undergraduate Education
January 2014 Presenter
Webinar Leader
April 2020Webinar: Teaching Landslide Analysis to Undergraduates: Planning for Failure and a Safer Society
March 2020Webinar: Teaching About the Water Cycle with Data-rich Water Resources Activities
February 2020
Webinar Participant (11 webinars)
February 2020 Teaching about Volcanoes with Monitoring Data and Risk Communication
January 2020 PresenterEngaging Undergraduates with the Data Behind Melting Ice and Changing Sea Levels
November 2019
