Andrea Maestas, ACRF Education and Outreach Coordinator, was part of a team awarded National Science Foundation funding to engage Native Alaskans in the geosciences through the WGBH Teachers' Domain website.

In July 2007, the National Science Foundation awarded funding to a proposal developed by ACRF Education and Outreach and WGBH Boston—public television’s pre-eminent production house. The winning project, titled “Engaging Alaska Natives with the Geosciences,” will add digital media and teacher professional development resources related to the Arctic geoscience to the WGBH Teachers’ Domain website and use them to engage Native Alaskans in the geosciences.

Andrea Maestas, ACRF Education and Outreach Coordinator, will serve on the project’s management team. ARM will offer ongoing access to researchers and scientists engaged in atmospheric sciences, especially those involved with the program’s North Slope of Alaska research site. ACRF Education and Outreach will also assist with the development of a series of live training and support sessions led by project partners in collaboration with local Native service providers.

Many of the multi-media resources collected by ACRF Education and Outreach for the development of its interactive kiosk series called “Climate Change: Science and Traditional Knowledge” will be used throughout the project. For more information, see the complete article on the Education news page.