--Nahid Khazenie (nkhazeni@pop100.gsfc.nasa.gov), NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Enterprise, Washington, DC
Project ALERT is a cooperative California-based program with two main partners, the California State University (CSU) geoscience and education disciplines and NASA centers at Ames Research Center (ARC) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). It is a three-year initiative that began in the spring of 1998 with funding from NASA and nine CSU campuses; several additional campuses are being recruited for the coming year. The shared goals are to build strong bridges between NASA scientists, engineers, and science information technologists at ARC and JPL, and university educators and scientists at CSU. A primary emphasis of ALERT is to create, improve, and/or infuse interdisciplinary Earth science course materials into the core science curriculum of pre-service teachers.
ALERT projects include repackaging Earth science information generated by NASA missions for educational uses, effecting simpler transfers of NASA technology to education, and reassessing and augmenting university-level Earth science course content.
For more information, see the ALERT WWW site <http://www.projectalert. nasa.gov> or contact J. W. Skiles, SETI, NASA Ames Research Center, <jskiles@mail.arc.nasa.gov>, or Ellen Metzger, Geology, San Jose State University, <metzger@geosun1.sjsu.edu>.
Conference On Remote Sensing Education For The Next Millennium, July 6-9, 1999, University Of Colorado At Boulder
The Conference on Remote Sensing Education (CORSE) is sponsored by NASA, the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), the International Center for Remote Sensing of Environment (ICRSE), and the IEEE-Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (IGARSS). The objective of CORSE 1999 is to provide K-12 educators with a comprehensive overview and hands-on experience with Earth science applications. Information will be posted on the CORSE web site as it becomes available: http://www.asprs.org/CORSE.
Event-Based Science Project
Our Earth–Opportunities for Undergraduates
The Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium is offering a hands-on research opportunity for undergraduate students during the summer of 1999. Opportunities for Undergraduate Research in Earth System Science (OUR Earth) is an eight-week, NASA-funded program that matches talented undergraduates from around the country with University of Washington (UW) faculty and researchers engaged in cutting-edge, Summer 1999 projects including the following:
• probing remotely for life in icy environments,
• building virtual worlds that help people understand the environment,
• studying marine storms,
• analyzing the interaction of oceans, ice, and atmosphere; and
• predicting the effects of forest clearcutting on a large river basin.
Complete program information, including a downloadable application form, can be found at <http://weber.u. washington.edu/~nasauw/ourearth. html>.