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Geotimes February 2004 Edward C. Roy Jr.	Assessing Earth Science in Texas In Texas, a group of geoscientists is fighting to restore earth science to the core curriculum of the state's high schools.
Geotimes July 2003 M. Ray Thomasson	Cooperating to Lead The American Geological Institute gathered geoscience leaders in Washington, D.C., to find new opportunities for alliance.
Science News September 20, 2003	More Mars -- Better than Ever On Aug. 27, Mars and Earth were closer to each other than at any other time in the last 50,000 years. Even as Earth and Mars slowly draw apart, the Red Planet remains a dazzling sight in the night sky. There's still time to take in the view.
Geotimes November 2003 Naomi Lubick	Ed Roy: Thinking and teaching in Texas Throughout his academic career as professor of geology at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, Edward C. Roy Jr. has championed geology for elementary and high school students, as well as for undergraduates.
Geotimes September 2004 Harold McWilliams	Transforming Teachers into Designers Earth Science by Design promotes creating stronger, more professional earth science teachers, fully versed in the core ideas of their discipline and skilled in the curriculum design techniques that the best developers have used for years.
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Jennifer Bogo	NASA Mission Statement Q&A: Eyes on Earth Interview with a professor involved in a study to find out how Earth scientists view NASA's shifting priorities and how it may affect the study of the planet.
Science News August 19, 2000	Earth Views The "Global View of the Earth" Web site offers lesson plans and other material for middle school teachers interested in classroom use of images taken by NASA's Landsat-7 satellite.
Science News September 3, 2005	Changing Earth Developed by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, this Web site focuses on Earth's history.
Geotimes October 2005 Jon L. Rau	Teaching Urban Geology From the Bottom Up Middle- and High School-level textbooks do not contain sufficient geological data to illustrate interesting problems and natural hazards that are related to local geological urban settings, thus forcing teachers to do their own research.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2004 Bonita Wilson	Earth as Art The sample images downloaded from the collection that is at once a science site and a gallery of found art, demonstrate why the site has been a popular one: the images are stunningly beautiful.
Geotimes January 2007 Edward Derbyshire	International Collaboration in Global Science: Price or Prize? The UN triennium 2007 - 2009 International Year of Planet Earth aims to contribute to the improvement of everyday life, especially in less-developed countries, and by promoting the societal potential of the world's earth scientists.
T.H.E. Journal April 2005	JASON Expedition: Mysteries of Earth and Mars This program challenges students and teachers in grades 5-8 to learn about Earth and Mars by investigating comparisons between the two planets.
D-Lib May/Jun 2013 Sarah Ramdeen	Developing Cyberinfrastructure for Earth Science: an Opportunity for Collaboration There is increasing interest and research in how to create the infrastructure necessary to support science data and its use, and the field of Earth Science is joining the conversation.
Science News March 10, 2007	Science Safari: National Environmental Education Week This web site provides information on the annual National Environmental Education Week that will culminate with Earth Day.
Geotimes February 2007 Sally Adee	Escape From Snowball Earth Early Earth didn't do things half-way: It may or may not have ever been a solidly frozen "snowball" in the deep geological past, but it was never a half-frozen ball of slush, according to a new study.
Geotimes September 2004 Naomi Lubick	Broadening horizons for students Snee Hall is home to Cornell University's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Since broadening its subject base in 2002, the department has greatly increased its number of majors.
Geotimes October 2003 Naomi Lubick	Observing Earth The Earth Observation Summit held this summer inaugurated a collaborative research effort by more than 30 nations to do just that: observe Earth in order to study its global climate and how it changes, while learning more about how the planet's ocean, air and land systems interact.
Science News January 5, 2008	Science Safari: Focus on Our Planet The United Nations website to show communities how they can promote sustainable use of Earth's resources.
HHMI Bulletin Winter 2013 Nicole Kresge	The Past, Present, and Future Earth What does the 4.6 billion year history of Earth tell us about our modern planet? About 150 Washington, D.C., area high school students and 15 teachers from around the United States learned the answers to these questions at the 2012 HHMI Holiday Lectures on Science.
Geotimes March 2004 Naomi Lubick	Julie Jackson: The quiet public geologist Last fall, the Geological Society of America awarded Julie Jackson their 2003 public service award for her work in communicating geoscience to the public.
T.H.E. Journal October 2008	Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships A new essay competition asks secondary students to describe how schools can best use technology to preserve the environment... School Technology Resources has launched a program to provide free loaner microscope kits to science teachers... etc.
Geotimes September 2004 Rossbacher & Rhodes	Building Geology for the Future: Cui bono? Academic geology departments are under attack and have been for more than a decade. Now, Geology departments are facing increasing challenges to survive.
Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling	X-ray Eyes in the Sky Scientists are working on the next generation of low-orbiting satellites that they hope will see far past the Earth's surface and into its interior, to better understand the structure and composition of Earth's crust, mantle and core.
T.H.E. Journal December 18, 2009 David Nagel	NASA Funds Target 13 K-12 STEM Education Programs Thirteen K-12 STEM education initiatives will receive an infusion of more than $12 million through NASA's Nspires program. The programs to be funded incorporate a range of technologies, from online social networking to virtual learning to digital media.
Smithsonian May 2005 Carl Zimmer	Life on Mars? It's hard enough to identify fossilized microbes on Earth. How would we ever recognize them on Mars?
Geotimes July 2007 Cathryn Manduca	On the Cutting Edge of Teaching About Early Earth The recent "On the Cutting Edge" workshop brought together experts in early Earth research and undergraduate geoscience education. They developed a variety of ideas to incorporate into the teaching of this challenging subject.
Geotimes April 2004 Charles Groat	A Celebration of 125 Years In the 125 years since its creation, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has provided the scientific information needed to make important decisions and safeguard society.
Geotimes June 2004 Sara Pratt	Why the Wobble? A new study says that the shifting of masses of water and ice around the globe's surface primarily drives the seasonal wobbleon its axis. The finding could lead to new ways to monitor global change.
Geotimes March 2004 E-an Zen	The Marriage of Geology and Philosophy This slim volume deals with the public role of earth science in contemporary society. What it has to say should concern not only public-minded earth scientists and those engaged in policy-making, but those who care about the relations between science and the humanities
Geotimes November 2004 Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr.	Geologic Mapping for the Future Current efforts to develop an integrated Global Earth Observation System of Systems are helping to launch a new voyage of scientific discovery.
Geotimes March 2007 Margaret Putney	OneGeology: A Site for All In partnership with the United Nations' International Year of Planet Earth, geologists around the world are coming together to form a world geological map, accessible to all on the Internet.
Geotimes March 2004	Earth science education in Texas The Texas State Board of Education voted last Friday to redesignate earth science courses from an elective status to a core credit option to satisfy a science requirement in the state's high schools.
Geotimes March 2003 Jan Childress	Early Impact: EarthComm Lands in Los Angeles The announcement in December of a partnership to support professional development and provide new classroom materials to the earth-science teachers in its public high schools was welcome news to the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Geotimes July 2004	Joining the Academy The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) elected six geoscientists to join its membership this year, one of the highest honors in the scientific community. From surface to core, the new members are a diverse group.
Science News June 5, 2004	Transit of Venus On June 8, Venus will pass across the face of the sun (as viewed from Earth).
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Sandra Upson	U.S. Earth-Sensing Satellites Left Out In the Cold The degree of precision needed to forecast hurricanes, and the future accuracy of climate modeling as well, may be in danger if recent trends in Earth-observing satellite programs persist.
InternetNews June 26, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Google Earth Does Good For Real One Google today announced Google Earth Outreach, a program to help the world's nonprofit organizations get a foothold in the virtual world so they can better communicate to Google Earth's 200 million users how to help the real one.
Geotimes July 2003	Highlights: Discoveries in the Earth Sciences Every year as we compile the Highlights issue, we aim to collect summaries about as many of the earth science disciplines as possible.
Geotimes April 2005	Geomedia Arctic Climate Change in Photos... Book review: Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages by Doug Macdougall... Mapping Sinkhole Risk in Maryland...
Smithsonian May 2005 Lawrence M. Small	From the Secretary - Science Matters The Institution decides to focus on four basic scientific questions.
Geotimes March 2007	Geomedia Movies: Footprints: Flexing the rules of filmmaking... Maps: Mineralogy 101: Photo-Atlas of Minerals 2.0... Earth, interactive: This Dynamic Planet...
Geotimes April 2003 Applegate & Baker	Geosciences Again Look to Congress to Restore Cuts And we're off! The fiscal year 2004 appropriations process is underway, with one bright spot and several large challenges ahead for geoscientists.
Science News March 14, 2009	Science Future For March 14, 2009 San Diego Science Festival... Earth Day... National Museum of Natural History...
Geotimes April 2005 Sara Pratt	Space Dust and Snowball Earth Within the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy are thousands of giant clouds of dust. Some researchers now say that these clouds collide with Earth every 140 million years, possibly explaining the causes of two distinct periods of widespread glaciation in the planet's geologic past.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Stephen Cass	Summer Reading Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface by David Standish... Kids to Space: A Space Traveler's Guide by Lonnie Jones Schorer... etc.
T.H.E. Journal January 2009 Jennifer Demski	STEM Picks Up Speed The use of authentic scenarios to teach abstract concepts such as constant velocity is helping educators spark student interest in math and science.
Geotimes November 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Airing Out an Early Atmosphere Scientists have generally thought that oxygen was scarce in Earth's atmosphere until about 2.4 billion years ago. Now a study based on new evidence suggests that oxygen may actually have been around longer than previously thought.
Geotimes October 2004	Pedaling D.C.'s monuments A bicycle tour of the Mall in Washington, D.C. highlights the geologic history of the region... Oct. 10 to Oct. 16 is Earth Science Week, organized by the American Geological Institute...
Geotimes June 2005 Sara Pratt	Revising the Asteroid Threat Scale Although scientists still assign Torino Impact Hazard Scale values via the same method, the language used to describe some levels has now changed to better inform the public -- and the media -- of the risk without unintentionally scaring people.
Science News April 11, 2009	Life In Space: Astrobiology For Everyone This book explains how the search for extraterrestrial life helps us understand Earth.