Education Highlights

NASA Headquarters has approved the Goddard DAAC's unsolicited educational proposal "NASA Goddard DAAC, Earth Science Educational Series." The series will focus on global environmental changes of Earth's atmosphere and biosphere and global climate phenomena. Each of the series will contain scientific information with diagrams, data, and freeware image processing software to display and analyze the data. Contact Carla Evans: evans@daac.gsfc.nasa.gov.

Dixon Butler has joined the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program as Assistant Director for Science. In this capacity, he functions as the chief scientist for GLOBE and manages the science investigations of the Program. Butler is also working to ensure the validity of GLOBE student data.

Announcing: "The Practical Uses of Math and Science (PUMAS)" Web Site, an on-line "Journal of Math and Science Examples For Pre-College Education." Scientists are invited to help K-12 teachers enrich their presentation of math and science topics by contributing one-page examples based on their interests and experience. All examples are peer-reviewed; once accepted, they are citable references in a referred journal of science education. Examples are currently being collected. It is anticipated that the Site will be open to geneal users in Spring or Summer 1997, once the collection contains a number of entries.

K-12 teachers are also needed now, as well as scientists, to serve in the pool of PUMAS reviewers. The on-line "Participant Volunteer/Update Form" can be found on the Navigation portion of the Help page, or from the hyperlink at the top of the PUMAS examples Search page.

The PUMAS Web Site is at: http://pumas.jpl.nasa.gov. For additional information, contact: ralph.kahn@jpl. nasa.gov.