DLESE DATA SERVICES-FACILITATING THE DEVELOPMENT AND EFFECTIVE USE OF EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA IN EDUCATION

The mission of the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is:

“To improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth system, by developing, managing, and providing access to high quality educational resources and supporting services through a community-based, distributed digital library”

DLESE Data Services will work toward accomplishing this mission, in coordination with the other DLESE Core Service activities, by facilitating the development and effective use of educational materials that make use of Earth system science datasets and data access and analysis tools that have for the most part been developed for and by scientists. Major activities of DLESE Data Services will be

• To conduct a needs assessment for data and data analysis tools in the educational community

• To identify existing educational modules utilizing data and data access and analysis tools for cataloging in DLESE

• To organize and run DLESE Data Services Workshops in which we will bring together a wide range of Earth science data providers, developers of data access and analysis/exploration tools, with curriculum developers and educators to improve the use of Earth science data in education

Each of these activities and the benefits and opportunities they make available to the community will be described in more detail during the presentation.