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, Workshop Leader, Webinar Participant, 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

Activities (4), Courses (2), Essay (1), Conference Presentations (9), Other Contribution (1)

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: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 Contribution (1)

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
22 activities reviewed
Earth Educators Rendezvous 2015
July 2015 NAGT Webinar Series Interest
Imaging Active Tectonics Interest Group
Ice Mass and Sea Level Change Change interest Group
Earth Educators' Rendezvous Interest Group
Teaching Computation Interest Group
GPS, Strain, and Earthquakes
NAGT All
GETSI Community
Teach the Earth
NGSS Tagging Camp EER 2019
Analyzing High Resolution Topography with TLS and SfM

Workshop Leader

ITG webinar Addressing Water Resources and Sustainability in Upper-level Undergraduate Courses
October 2016GETSI February 2014 Authors
February 2014

Workshop Participant (8 workshops)

Project EDDIE Module Development Workshop 2019
October 2019 Online Data Sets 2015
May 2015 PresenterApplying Geodesy Data to Societally Important Questions in Undergraduate Education
January 2014 Presenter

Webinar Participant (11 webinars)

On-Ramps to more effective teaching: quick-start guides to strategies for actively engaging students to improve learning
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