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Three-Day Workshops on the Delaware Estuary Watershed

The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary announces two workshop opportunities for K-12 educators teaching in the Delaware Estuary Watershed.

Are We Alone?

Dr. Jill Tarter, Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI, will share the story of how the SETI community defines life, their strategies for searching for life, and the technology being used to continue the quest. As astronomers continue to find new planets around other stars and search for another Earth, Dr. Tarter points out that all of us will want to know if anybody lives on those planets, and the techniques of SETI are our only method for finding the answer to that question.

Popular Astronomy Lectures Can Now Be Seen on YouTube

The Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures, featuring noted scientists giving nontechnical illustrated lectures on recent developments in astronomy, are now available on their own YouTube Channel, at: http://www.youtube.com/SVAstronomyLectures/

The talks include:

Earth Science Lecture

Spitz, Inc. is hosting a free lecture on Earth Science research and teaching, along with demonstrations of The Layered Earth and Starry Night, on Saturday, April 27, in Chadds Ford, PA.  The talk will be given by Dr. Ellen Prager, marine scientist and author of Chasing Science at Sea: Racing hurricanes, stalking sharks, and living undersea with ocean experts. Please RSVP to reserve a seat for the lecture (see attached file for details).

Date: 
Saturday, April 27, 2013 - 2:00pm

Earth Science lecture for teachers - Chadds Ford, PA

Spitz, Inc. is hosting a free lecture on Earth Science research and teaching, along with demonstrations of The Layered Earth and Starry Night, on Saturday, April 27, in Chadds Ford, PA.  The talk will be given by Dr. Ellen Prager, marine scientist and author of Chasing Science at Sea: Racing hurricanes, stalking sharks, and living undersea with ocean experts. Please RSVP to reserve a seat for the lecture (see attached file for details).

Arctic Sea Ice: The New Normal

Arctic Sea Ice: The New Normal

A Google Hangout to launch a new AMNH/NOAA Data Visualization

Tuesday, April 9 @ 4–5PM EDT

Last September, sea ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank to its smallest extent on record. This frozen cover is also dramatically younger and thinner than it used to be. How does the satellite record reveal these changes? And what are the effects of sea ice loss both near and far?

Regional Hurricane Webinars

Free hurricane webinars with the National Hurricane Center

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) and the Hurricanes: Science and Society (HSS) team continue to invite 5th grade classes to join them during their next session of hurricane webinars for southeast and northeast regions of the U.S.  

News and Notes from PAESTA - April 2013

The April 2013 News and Notes from PAESTA has been sent out. You can view it online via this link.

Lunar Workshops for Educators

Attention Grade 6-9 Science Teachers!

NASA is now accepting applications for the Lunar Workshops for Educators, two teacher professional development workshops held at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.  Workshops will be offered twice during the summer,  June 24-28 and July  8-12, 2013.

For more information on these workshops, visit: http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/lwe/index.html

Space is limited, so apply soon!

Agnes Irwin School - MS Earth Science Teacher

The Agnes Irwin School, a Philadelphia-area private girls school located in Rosemont, PA, is looking for an 8th grade science teacher to begin August 2013.  The position will be primarily Earth Science but with one to two sections of another middle school science.

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