Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Public Libraries Advancing Community Engagement (PLACE)",Califa,"2015: ELG for Community Resilience to Extreme Weather Events and Environmental Changes",2015,NA15SEC0080008,"$499,919","Paula Mackinnon",California,"San Mateo","San Mateo",CA15,"37.54439, -122.30683","2015-10-01T00:00:00 - 2018-01-30T23:00:00","The Public Libraries Advancing Community Engagement (PLACE) project was built on the idea that librarians can play a significant role in increasing a community's climate resiliency — the ability to recover quickly from or plan for and anticipate weather impacts. PLACE paired about 50 librarians in rural and under-resourced urban communities across the U.S. with local NOAA/NWS scientists to engage over 1,500 youth and adults in a series of public library programs tailored to the local geography. The programs used popular books and human-interest videos to stimulate discussion and critical thinking about resilient responses to environmental changes and extreme weather events, as well as introducing relevant NOAA tools and resources for data access and resiliency planning. For both audience members and librarians, PLACE enhanced environmental literacy specific to their own region’s geography, vulnerabilities, and threats, toward the longer-term goal of helping them to build local resilience.","NOAA National Weather Service (NWS), NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO), NOAA Office of Education"