Grade 6
Ask an Expert!

Unit: A; B; C; D; E; F

Unit A: Cells and Microbes

Howard Hughes Medical Institute—Ask a Scientist
4000 Jones Bridge Road
Chevy Chase, MD 20815-6789
E-mail: webmaster@hhmi.org
http://www.hhmi.org/askascientist/

Scientific American—Ask the Experts
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_directory.cfm

Unit B: The Changing Earth

Ask-An-Earth-Scientist
Dr. Ken Rubin, Project Coordinator
Department of Geology and Geophysics
University of Hawaii at Manoa
1680 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
USA
E-mail: krubin@soest.hawaii.edu
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/ASK/askanerd.html

Ask a Volcanologist
Volcano World
University of North Dakota
P.O. Box 9008
5th Floor, Clifford Hall
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9008
E-mail: scott@baby.pgd.hawaii.edu
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/ask_a.html

Unit C: The Nature of Matter

National Science Foundation
Science and Technology Center for Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials (ALCOM)
Kent State University
Library and Media Services
Kent, Ohio 44242
Dr. John L. West
Tel: (330) 672-2654
Fax: (330) 672-2796
E-mail:johnwest@lci.kent.edu

Scientific American
415 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Tel: (800) 777-0444
Fax: (212) 355-0408
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_directory.cfm

Unit D: Continuity of Life

Wildlife Preservation Trust International
The Wild Ones
A Children's Education Project of Wildlife Preservation Trust International
1520 Locust Street, Suite 704
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Tel: (215) 731-9770
Fax: (215) 731-9766
http://www.thewildones.org/scientists.html

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis: Ask an Ecologist
735 State Street, Suite 300
Santa Barbara, CA 93101-3351
Tel: (805) 892-2500
Fax: (805) 892-2510
E-mail: webcontact@nceas.ucsb.edu

Scientific American
Ask the Experts
415 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Tel: (800) 777-0444
Fax: (212) 355-0408
E-mail: experts@sciam.com
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_directory.cfm

MAD Scientist Network
Submission Form
Washington University School of Medicine
660 S. Euclid Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63110
E-mail: webadmin@www.madsci.org
http://www.madsci.org/submit.html

Unit E: Oceanography

WhaleTimes: Ask Jake, the SeaDog
Jake the SeaDog
WhaleTimes
4550 Coffee Road, Ste. A, #205
Bakersfield, CA 93308
E-mail: seamail@whaletimes.org
http://www.whaletimes.org/whaques.htm

Ocean Link:
An Interactive Information Page for the Marine Sciences
Bamfield Marine Station
Bamfield, B.C.
V0R 1B0
Canada
E-mail: olink@bms.ca
http://oceanlink.island.net/

Ask Dr. Bob
Dr. Robert Stewart, Professor of Oceanography
Texas A & M University
TOPEX/Poseidon Education Project
E-mail: bporter@ocean.tamu.edu
http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/home/ask_dr_bob.htm

Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (CNMOC)
Public Affairs Office
1020 Balch Boulevard
Stennis Space Center, MS 39529
Tel: (601) 688-4188
Neptune's Web: Mysteries of the Deep

Unit F: Forces and Motion

How Things Work
The University of Virginia
Louis A. Bloomfield, Professor of Physics
Charlottesville, VA 22903
http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/HTW//ask_question.html

Scientific American:
Ask the Experts
415 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Tel.: (212)-451-8546
Fax: (212) 980-3062
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_directory.cfm

How Stuff Works
P.O. Box 40492
Raleigh, NC 27629
Tel: (919) 269-5880
Fax: (954) 301-2719
http://www.howstuffworks.com/