SITE/ INFO

BNZ

CAP

CWT

GCE

HBR

HFR

JRN KBS KNZ MCM

NTL

NWT

PAL

SGS

VCR

Run by

Elena Sparrow,
Affiliate Associate Professor and Coordinator of BNZ SLTER

Monica Elser, Charlene Saltz

Brian Kloeppel

Steven Pennings

Marianne Krasny

John O’Keefe, Edythe Ellin

Stephanie BestlemeyerExecutive Director: Chihuahuan Desert Nature Park

Phil Robertson (PI)
Mike Klug
(Professor)

Valerie Wright
Environmental Educator
W. Berry Lyons
MCM-
LTER PI

Robert Bohanan

Diane McKnight

Karen Baker

John Moore

Randy Carlson and Bruce Hayden

Complementary
Funding

GLOBE funding for shared SLTER/GLOBE projects

15K(98-01), CAPLTER ann support (97-01), AZ Community Foundation (00), Motorola (98-01)

15K (current), USDA Forest Service
(staff time donation), primary schools
(vehicles, computer service, and equipment

new LTER applying for supplemental SLTER funding

15K (current) NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 (GK-12)

15K (98-01)

Through a partnership between the Jornada Basin LTER, the Jornada Experimental Range, and the nonprofit Chihuahuan Desert Nature Park, we leverage the resources of all three groups for our Schoolyard LTER program. Matching, in-kind, and other support comes from participating scientists and Nature Park member contributions. Eisenhower Professional Development Grant

15k Supplement  year: Current

15k Supplement  year: Current

15k supplement + collaboration with Teachers Experiencing Antarctica program (NSF)

15k supplement + Funding has come from the following additional sources: 1) UNC Graduate School 1996-1998 2) NSF TE Grant 1997-1999 3) NSF GK-12 Grant 2000-2005

15k SLTER Supplement

# PI’s
98-99

5

8

2

0

0

1

2 3 9 1

2

2

3

2

4

99-00

5

7

2

0

0

1

3 3 9 1

3

2

3

2

4

00-01

5

4

2

0

0

1

5 4 10 1

2

2

3

2

7

# other personnel
98-99

2

5

7

0

1

2

1 2 2 3

2

2

2

1

0

99-00

2

7

7

0

2

3

1 2 3 2

3

2

2

1

1

00-01

2

2

7

0

1

3

0 2 4 2

2

2

2

1

1

# grad + undergrad 98-99

2

13

21

0

0

0

2 0 6 0

3

4

1

0

99-00

2

9

7

0

0

3

4 0 9 0

4

4

3

0

00-01

3

6?

29?

0

2

3

4 1 7 0

3

4

3

1

#K-12 students
98-99

50

767

22

0

30

0

1922 0 483 150

100

120

300

15

0

99-00

100

1494

23

0

0

3

2023 0 569 190

150

150

450

100

27

00-01

100

1720

26

0

0

130

3036 0 570 194

150

150

450

100

100+

#K-12 teachers
98-99

4

22

4

0

1

0

37 24 14 2

7

2

8

5

3

99-00

6

45

4

0

0

2

80 24 16 2

7

10

10

6

4

00-01

6

44

4

0

0

7

122 24 20 3

8

12

10

7

5

# parents
98-99

5

>10

5

0

0

0

>10 0 8 0

6

0

0

0

0

99-00

8

>10

5

0

0

1

>20 0 10 0

6

0

0

0

0

00-01

8

>10

5

0

0

20

>20 0 12 2

6

0

0

0

2

type & # others involved

?

Post-docs 4 (98-99)

Post-docs 4 (99-00)

Post-docs 2 (00-01)

college instructor 1

0

0

0

Postdocs: 99-00 - 1 00-01 - 1 / Technicians: 99-00 - 1 District curriculum directors - 4 (1 for each district in our partnership) Docents - about 50-60 /year

1 post-doc

3 technicians

0

Grade levels involved

all (?)

K-12

4-12

Community college group

k-12

10-12

k-12

k-12 (?) 4-9 k-12 4-12

k-9

10-12

10-12

4-12

Main components

Web-based protocols and curriculum

access to CAP-LTER data

teacher training

in-class visits

to Patty via e-mail

not funded yet

development of curriculum activities focusing on LTER network, web-based curriculum materials and web-site development this spring

will forward 1st week of Feb

See Annual Report SEE SUPPLEMENT REQUEST LETTER

http://limnosun.limnology
.wisc.edu/K_12.html

(this is where the supplement
letter is located

our program is intergrated with the summer course program of the Mountain Research Station and we maintain contact with the insrevice and preservice teachers that take the course. The extent to which they use the resources provided through the course depends greatly on the class they end up teaching in following years.

Palmer SLTER program involves: a) an education forum and reports; b) ad hoc pi collaboration w/existing education programs; c) ongoing collaboration with NSF Teacher Experiencing Antarctica program; d) collaboration with HS teachers and their classrooms; e) development of education products such as an education outreach trunk and an electronic archive of multimedia products;f) support of cross-site education activities; g)support of technology for education including metadata.

See program description:

Global Positioning System Applications (GPS) Geographical Information Systems Applications (GIS) Water Quality Sampling and Analysis Plant Taxonomy and a Herbarium Field trips to research sites and VCR/LTER Laboratory Classroom activities in GPS/GIS, Plant Taxonomy, Water hemistry SLTER Student Summer Program

Web-based Data available (Y/N)

Y

N

N

N

N

web-site

caplter.asu.edu/explorers

http://coweeta.ecology.uga.edu/
webdocs /school/home.html

N/A

N/A

http://lternet.edu/hfr

www.ksu.edu/konza/keep http://huey.colorado.edu/LTER/

http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/lter/education

http://sgs.cnr.colostate.edu/EdWeb/EdWebHomepage.htm

http://www.vcrlter.virginia.edu/slter

Comments

will work with other LTER’s to provide network-wide data for student use

not funded yet