Climate Stewards Education Project

Posted by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on February 16, 2015

The Climate Stewards Education Project (CSEP) of NOAA distributes information on resources, webinars, and book club announcements from CSEP. It also provides professional development opportunities in climate science.

There are two levels of involvement

Level I. If you are only interested professional development opportunities in climate science and have no interest in doing a stewardship project, contact Bruce.Moravchik@noaa.gov, subject line: “Join CSEP Education Community” to be put on the educator email list for announcements about resources, webinars and book club announcements.

Level II. If you are interested in professional development opportunities and:

• Mini-grant funding up to $2000.00 to develop and implement a climate stewardship project. (definition below)
• Travel stipends/reimbursements to attend and present at regional workshops &/or national conferences
• Special professional development opportunities
• CSEP contests with monetary and educational resource prizes

Then you will need to apply to the Stewardship Community of CSEP. You will be committing to:

• Develop and implement a climate stewardship action project
• Participate in monthly CSEP Web seminars during evening hours – typically the 1st Monday of every month.
• Participate in a Stewardship Project Peer Review Group – meetings during evening hours (~ once/month).
• Use a newly developed CSEP Wiki to post stewardship project plans, progress updates, results, share resources, and comments with other CSEP educators.
• Participate in CSEP evaluation efforts i.e. online surveys.

Read more to apply: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/climate-stewards/