PLANS OF THE EES

Priority for 2004-8:

• Proposed NSF project entitled Geo-TASK
  
  

The vision of Geo-TASK is to provide NSDL stewardship of educational content and services related to geographic tools and applications for sustainable development throughout our society. We seek to make NSDL the gateway of choice for global networking on STEM Education in arenas of GIS, GPS, RS, location-based services and spatial data infrastructure. We propose to develop and serve a targeted community of committed NSDL users and contributors by creating pathways toward those resources through the Geo-TASK partnership of public, private, and academic institutions. The content areas will reflect and inform the global discourse on sustainable development according to the five organizing themes of WEHAB, with special emphasis on the cross-cutting topic of Health.

• Loma Linda University (Robert Ford) proposed 15 CASES as part of a Global health Toolkit

Priority for 1999-2000:

Web adaptation of the AAG (Commission on College Geography) active learning modules on HDGC (Human Dimensions of Global Change). Produced and coordinated by Susan Hanson, Clark University, Graduate School of Geography.

The following specific active-learning modules were adapted for the web by the EES group (authors are indicated in parenthesis):
 

• The Geography of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (author: Michael Solem, University of Colorado. "Webizing" by Michael Solem, e-mail: solem@colorado.edu)
• Living in the Biosphere (author: Dwight Brown, University of Minnesota).
• Think Locally, Act Globally! Linking Local and Global Communities Though Democracy and the the Environment. Author: Lorraine Dowler, Pennsylvania State University.. Webbizing by Lorraine Dowler and Jodi Vender of Pennsylvania State University.
• and others......
   

 
• Ethics and Environmental Justice by Paul Roebuck, University of Minnesota
• Biomes of the World, by Susan L. Woodward, Radford University