NESTA Professional Development Opportunities

NESTA offers an assortment of professional development opportunities through the year. Many of these events occur in conjunction with NSTA National and Regional Conferences. In addition, NESTA occasionally co-sponsors events such as Field Trips and Field Conferences (add a link) with other organizations. For professional development opportunities offered by other organizations, click here

If you have a professional development opportunity that you would like to have listed here, please post the opportunity.

NESTA Field Trip 2010

NESTA Field Trip - Introduction to Philadelphia Geology

NESTA Advances in Earth and Space Science Lecture 3

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NESTA Advances in Earth and Space Science Lecture 3: Environmental Earth System Science for Education in Urban Areas

Professor Alexander Gates, Rutgers University

NESTA Advances in Earth and Space Science Lecture 2

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NESTA Advances in Earth and Space Science Lecture 2: Changing Seas, Changing Life: Paleontological Research with Student Participation

Dr. Robert Ross, Paleontological Research institution

NESTA Rock and Mineral Raffle

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NESTA Earth Science Share-a-thon

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NESTA Space Science Share-a-thon

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NESTA Oceans and Atmosphere Share-a-thon

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NESTA Geology Share-a-thon

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NESTA Advances in Earth and Space Science Lecture 1

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NESTA Advances in Earth and Space Science Lecture 1: Meteorology drives everything: the sensitivity of pollution episodes to atmospheric conditions in the mid-Atlantic region

Professor Richard Clark, Millersville University of Pennsylvania

Upcoming events

NESTA Field Trip 2010

03/17/2010 - 8:00am - 4:30pm

NESTA Geology Share-a-thon

03/19/2010 - 9:30am - 10:30am

NESTA Oceans and Atmosphere Share-a-thon

03/19/2010 - 11:00am - 12:00pm

NESTA Space Science Share-a-thon

03/19/2010 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm

American Geophysical Union Lecture

03/19/2010 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm

NESTA Friends of Earth Science Reception

03/19/2010 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm

56th Annual Louisiana Region 5 Science & Engineering Fair

03/20/2010 - 7:00am - 5:30pm

NESTA Resource Day Breakfast

03/20/2010 - 7:00am - 8:30am

NESTA Earth Science Share-a-thon

03/20/2010 - 9:30am - 10:30am

NESTA Advances in Earth and Space Science Lecture 1

03/20/2010 - 11:00am - 12:00pm

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For California Earth Science educators

Below you will find a petition to the Academic Council of the University of California. At this time, the "d" requirements for a lab science specifies only biology, chemistry and physics. If you are in favor of petitioning the UC Academic council to include Earth, Environmental, and Space Sciences as a choice for a "d" lab science, please "sign" the following petition.

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