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Bald Head Island Conservancy Summer 2012 Internships
No full textThe Bald Head Island Conservancy Intern Program is open to rising juniors, seniors or recent graduates from any accredited college or university, with majors in biology, marine biology, environmental science, education, or a related course of study. We offer four specific internships: Wildlife Patrol, Sea Turtle Patrol, Environmental Educator, and Kayak Guide/Environmental Educator positions. The term of the environmental education intern is for a period of three months: from mid-May to mid-August, subject to undergraduate academic schedules. The stipend to be paid for the recipients of the Bald Head Island Conservancy internship shall be $1,200 per summer, paid monthly; this amount is pre-tax. Applications are due by February 10, 2012.
Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators
Full text linkThis program recognizes outstanding K-12 teachers who employ innovative approaches to environmental education and use the environment as a context for learning for their students. Two teachers from each EPA Region will be selected to receive this award. The awardee teacher will receive an award of $2,000, to be used to further the awardee’s professional development in environmental education, as well as a commemorative plaque. Applications must be submitted by December 30, 2011, 11:59:59 pm Eastern Time. Electronic and hard copies must be received within 10 days of the submission deadline to be eligible.
USGS: Free GPS, Map, Compass Classes
No full textThe United States Geological Survey's (USGS) Central Region office sponsors free navigation classes open to the public every second Friday of the month every month, January through November (no class in December). Each class is taught in two sessions. Topics include how to take a compass bearing and adjust for magnetic declination, how to triangulate a position on a map using compass bearings, Global Positioning System (GPS) waypoints, datums, how to plot coordinates on a map, and how to set up a GPS reciever. Reservations are required!
Seismologists See Earth's Dynamic Interior as Interplay of Temperature, Pressure, Chemistry
No full textNew research conducted by Nicholas Schmerr and Edward Garnero of Arizona State University suggests that scientists must recast their understanding of the inner workings of Earth from a relatively homogeneous environment to one that is highly dynamic and chemically diverse. Schmerr and Garnero used data from the USArray, which is part of the NSF-funded EarthScope project. They examined reflection data from the 410-kilometer phase boundary, in the mantle beneath South America, which was expected to be upwarped due to relatively cold mantle temperatures in this area of subduction. Instead, they observed that the phase boundary significantly deepened, an effect that they attribute to differences in chemistry, perhaps hydrogen or iron concentrations, rather than to temperature.
NASA Wavelength
No full textNASA Wavelength description goes here Educational levels: General public, High school, Informal education, Intermediate elementary, Middle school, Primary elementary, Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division