Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Multicultural students At Sea Together -3 (MAST-3)","Hampton University","2005: Environmental Literacy",2005,NA05SEC4691007,"$359,099","Benjamin Cuker",Virginia,Hampton,"Hampton City",VA03,"37.0217, -76.33661","2005-10-01T00:00:00 - 2009-09-30T00:00:00","The primary goal of MAST-3 is to increase the diversity of students, particularly those from underrepresented groups, electing careers in NOAA related marine sciences. This is done through a multidisciplinary program that engages students in NOAA-related marine research, and explores marine policy, the heritage of African Americans and Native Americans in the coastal environment, and seamanship. MAST students use the Chesapeake Bay to understand efforts to protect, restore and manage the use of coastal and ocean resources through an ecosystem approach to management. To do this, Hampton University has formed partnerships with various NOAA labs/sites, several university laboratories, the USEPA, various museums, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and the menhaden fishing industry.","National Aquarium / National Aquarium In Baltimore (NAIB), Old Dominion University (ODU), Banneker-Douglass Museum, Calvert Marine Museum, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Havre de Grace Maritime Museum, Reedville Fishermen's Museum, Smithsonian Institution / Environmental Research Center, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) / Chesapeake Bay Program Office, U.S. Naval Academy Museum, University of Maryland / Center for Environmental Science / Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland / Center for Environmental Science / Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland (UMD) Baltimore County, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) / Marine Advisory Services" "Educational Applications of the National Maritime Center Science on a Sphere","Hampton University","2005: Environmental Literacy",2005,NA05SEC4691014,"$201,866","John Andersen Ph.D.",Virginia,Hampton,"Hampton City",VA03,"37.0217, -76.33661","2005-10-01T00:00:00 - 2007-09-30T00:00:00","This project is developing and implementing a strong environmental literacy and science education program to accompany NOAA's Science on a Sphere® (SOS) at The National Maritime Center's Nauticus museum. The program will use the SOS as a focal point to support learning about global oceanic and atmospheric circulations and their effect on local environments. The team is creating real-time global displays of environmental phenomena for the SOS from the expansive University of Wisconsin environmental satellite database. Computer visualization systems and user-driven interactive displays will allow viewers to move from global scale to regional and local scale in order to explore specific features of the phenomena being visualized and to understand them in greater detail. The displays will be integrated with high quality education materials that are aligned with national standards and specifically address the NOAA Education Strategic Plan. The teaming of the University of Wisconsin, Hampton University, and the National Maritime Center offers the opportunity to expose students from ethnic minority groups to various NOAA career paths and help produce graduates with solid technical backgrounds.","Bishop Museum, University of Wisconsin–Madison / Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), National Maritime Center (TNMC) Nauticus Museum"