Greg Cox is a Research Scientist for the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and serves as the K-12 Education Coordinator for the Institute for Global Change Research and Education at the new Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC) in Huntsville, Alabama. He earned his bachelors and masters degrees in Biology (environmental focus) at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Greg develops environmental education curriculum activities and coordinates teacher training within the GHCC, and is also the Director of Environmen-tal Studies for the UAH Division of Continuing Education. He manages education and research contracts for numerous federal and state agencies and is assisting the Russian Ministry of Education in creating an environmental education network in the Rostov region of southern Russia. He serves as science advisor for ECO-BRIDGE, an environmental research and cultural exchange program between high school students in the Tennessee River valley and the Don River watershed in southern Russia, and has pioneered the use of packet radio as a means of reliable electronic communication between these groups.

Susan Sorlie is the DAAC User Services Specialist at NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia. She earned her undergraduate degree in Physical Geography from San Diego State University and her masters in Climatology from the University of Delaware. Sue then worked at the George Washington University Biostatistics Center as a research analyst programmer in the coordination of a national diabetes clinical trial. Upon joining NASA, she served as science support for the EOSDIS Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), where she updated and wrote descriptive catalogs of data sets archived there. Sue's current duties at the Langley DAAC include responding to user requests for data and information; facilitating the First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) data ingest process; serving as science support to researchers and data producers; and coordinating CD-ROM development, production, and distribution activities.

ECOlogic Corporation is a consulting and production company specializing in multimedia systems integration and application development. Their mission is to enable organizations to learn and develop for success. ECOlogic has established the Earth System Science Community Curriculum (ESSCC) Testbed, with support from Gonzaga College High School (Washington, D.C.), NASA, and NASA Science Internet, The ESSCC Testbed is a three-year project to train teachers and build a widely-distributed multimedia application delivered over the Internet using the World Wide Web. The ESSCC is designed to support teachers and students in their investigations of Earth system using NASA data and public domain software tools. The principals include:

• Michael Keeler–Principal Investigator, ECOlogic Corporation. He earned a B.S. in Development Economics from Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service; and an M.P.S. in Interactive Telecommunication from New York University where his areas of concentration included distributed network applications, human-network interface design, and digital video. He teaches Earth System Science at Gonzaga College High School. As Program Director, he is responsible for the overall management and oversight of the ESSCC Testbed.
• Dr. Farzad Mahootian–Co-Investigator, ECOlogic Corporation. He earned his M.S. Chemistry from Georgetown University, and his Ph.D in Philosophy from Fordham University. His research has encompassed a diverse range of topics from the role of metaphor in scientific concept-formation to experimentation with coupled chemical oscillators. Farzad has twelve years of teaching experience in philosophy at Fordham, Georgetown, and George Mason Universities. He teaches Earth System Science at Gonzaga. As the Science Education Director, Farzad leads teacher training and the development of Earth system science curriculum.
• Greg Crist–Executive Producer, ECOlogic Corporation. Greg earned a B.A. in English at Georgetown Univer-sity. Prior to ECOlogic, Greg consulted in the areas of commercial information systems and software development. He now leads a team of programmers, systems integrators, and graphic designers to produce multimedia educational applications delivered via Internet and on CD-ROM. At Gonzaga, he has directed the graphic and technical production of Earth System Science Community Curriculum (ESSCC).