Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Climate Change Community Outreach Initiative","Florida Aquarium","2009: Ocean Education Grants for AZA Aquariums",2009,NA09SEC4690037,"$630,271","Debbi Stone",Florida,Tampa,Hillsborough,FL14,"27.94659, -82.44514","2009-12-31T23:00:00 - 2015-12-30T23:00:00","To promote ocean and climate change literacy that addresses the needs of our region, six aquariums based on the Gulf of Mexico will partner to educate our communities on both our risks and ways to contribute locally to sustainability. The aquariums will combine community outreach programs, stewardship promotion, social networking and workshops for non-formal educators to reach broad audiences throughout the Gulf in Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas and Mexico. Each partner will develop content that emphasizes local ecosystems and consequences of climate change, tailoring stewardship activities to address them. Over five years, the aquariums will reach out to diverse audiences in their communities, which have populations that total over five million people.","Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, Texas State Aquarium, Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL), Institute for Marine Mammal Studies (IMMS), Spectrum Communications" "Building Ocean Awareness Together (BOAT)","Florida Aquarium","2012: Ocean Education Partnership Grants",2012,NA12SEC0080024,"$232,790","Debbi Stone",Florida,Tampa,Hillsborough,FL14,"27.94659, -82.44514","2012-10-01T00:00:00 - 2015-03-31T00:00:00","A consortium of Alaska SeaLife Center, Florida Aquarium and Monterey Bay Aquarium with their partner National Association for Interpretation will increase the effectiveness of informal science educators (ISE) to promote public understanding of three complex topics that impact the ocean (oil spills, ocean acidification, and energy literacy) and encourage stewardship of ocean and coastal resources. This project will have a direct impact on 252 interpreters in and around Alaska, California, and Florida through 12 weeklong trainings. Groups of interpreters will develop, assemble and produce online training toolkits, all of which will be widely disseminated to the ISE community. Each toolkit will utilize NOAA multimedia content, data visualization products, expertise and other relevant resources. Project participants – who interact with a diverse mix of local, regional, national and international visitors (including underserved local populations) – will provide enhanced training content for their colleagues through professional trainings, presentations, and online networks.","California Academy of Sciences, Monterey Bay Aquarium, National Aquarium / National Aquarium In Baltimore (NAIB), New England Aquarium Corporation / New England Aquarium (NEAq), Seattle Aquarium, Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science / Alaska SeaLife Center, Association of Zoos and Aquariums, National Association for Interpretation (NAI), University of Alaska (UA-Fairbanks), NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) / Pacific Islands, NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO)"