The Consortium supports and promotes Bay-Delta education outreach for diverse audiences and all age groups. Please visit our Virtual Interpretive Center and browse the following recommended links:

New Professional Development Series in Wetlands Science

San Francisco State's Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies (RTC) is pleased to offer a series of new short courses to provide professional training on a range of topics related to wetlands science and management. With first courses offered in spring 2005, we intend to develop this course series into a certificate program in the near future.

The first year's offerings will allow students to gain expertise in wetlands delineation, restoration ecology policy, GIS, remote sensing, plant identification, experimental design, and statistical analysis. These courses can be used to meet the training requirements of the Society of Wetland Scientists' Professional Wetlands Scientist Certification program.

To find out more & to register see our website:
http://online.sfsu.edu/~wetlands
Email: wetlands@sfsu.edu
Phone (415) 819-2073

Spring 2005 Course Offerings:

Statistics Refresher: Applications to Wetlands Science
Instructor: Steve Obrebski
Dates: Feb 4, 5, 11, 12, Two Consecutive Friday/Saturdays, 8:30am-5:00pm
32 class hours=3.2 CEUs
Fees: $840

Experimental Design for Wetland Habitats
Instructor: Steve Obrebski
Dates: Feb 25, 26, Friday & Saturday 8:30am-5:00pm
16 class hours=1.6 CEUs
Fees: $430

Wetland Delineation
Instructor: Mike Josselyn
Dates: March 21-25, Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:00pm
40 class hours = 4 CEUs
Fees: $980

GIS for Wetlands
Instructor: Tim Reed
Dates: Apr 15, 16, Friday & Saturday 8:30am-5:00pm
16 class hours = 1.6 CEUs
Fees: $430

Wetlands Restoration Ecology
Instructor: Katharyn Boyer
Dates: May 13-14, Friday & Saturday 8:30am-5:00pm
16 class hours = 1.6 CEUs
Fees: $430

K-12 Education Resources

• CA Dept of Fish and Game Just 4 Kids: Includes helpful information for school reports, including the history of California fish and wildlife, habitat conservation resources, and endangered species education materials.



• EPA's Kid's Explorer's Club: Includes lots of interesting things to read and fun activities to do. Topics include "Plants & Animals," "Air," "Water," "Garbage & Recycling," and "You & Your Environment."



• California Academy of Sciences: Featuring online information about the Steinhart Aquarium, planetarium, and exhibits including "African Safari," "Wild California," "Life Through Time," "Earth Sciences," and "Diversity of Life," and more!



• CA Dept of Water Resources: Provides water education services and materials and to schools throughout California. To see a listing of school materials currently available, including a summary of the contents of these publications, browse through DWR Office of Water Education Water Facts and Fun Catalog.

• The Ecology Center: The Ecology Center has an Environmental Resource Center, which includes an ecology library, information hotline, and classes.
  
  
• Monterey Bay Aquarium: The Nation's Largest Marine Sanctuary



• PUMAS: Practical Uses of Math and Science



• San Francisco Exploratorium: A Hands On, Eyes On, and Be On Experience



• Science Learning Network: Check out Water Works



• Tech Museum of Innovation: Exciting, hands-on museum of technology



• United States Geological Survey Links: Featuring earth science resources for K-12 students, teachers, and parents.
  
  
  • Ask-A-Geologist
  • Biology Educational Resources
  • Earthquakes for Kids and Grownups
  • Educational Materials: Teaching Packets & more
  • Frog Web
  • Geography Educational Resources
  • Geology Educational Resources
  • Putting Down Roots in Shaky Country
  • TerraWeb for Kids
  • The Learning Web
  • This Dynamic Earth: Plate Tectonics
  • Water Education Posters
  • Water Educational Resources
  • Water Science for Schools

ASK A SCIENTIST: Provides K-12 science, math and computer teachers (and their students) a place to practice telecommunications, to retrieve useful information in a wide variety of subjects, to contact research scientists from all over the world and to open communications between classroom teachers. Students can submit questions to researchers, read the "Question of the Week," and search the full index of questions and outreach program materials operated by the NEWTON BBS program, Division of Educational Programs of Argonne National Laboratory.

University Links and College Education Resources

• UC Davis Ecology Graduate Group
• UC Davis Geology Department
• UC Davis Watershed Center
• CSUS Geology Department, Programs & Courses
• CSUS Library Geology Guide
• Sierra Community College Natural History Museum
• UC Berkeley Dept. of Geology and Geophysics
• UC Berkeley GIS Center
• Water Resources Center Archives (UC Berkeley)

General Public Outreach and Educational Links

• Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG): Earthquake Maps and Information Including stories & animation
• About Water Quality: News and current issues