Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Interpreting Global, Half-hourly Cloud Observations to Promote Weather and Climate Literacy","American Museum of Natural History","2006: Environmental Literacy",2006,NA06SEC4690003,"$580,665","Rosamond Kinzler Ph.D","New York","New York","New York",NY12,"40.77994, -73.97102","2006-09-01T00:00:00 - 2010-08-31T00:00:00","AMNH will use NOAA weather satellite data to annotate 72 high definition (HD) video time-series global cloud cover visualizations using thermal infrared brightness temperature data acquired by five geostationary satellites and joined into global mosaics at half-hourly intervals. The HD visualizations will be used in informal and formal education activities and will be made available on the Web. These media pieces will be used for informal education activities at AMNH and 28 other informal science institutions (ISI) around the United States . The target population of visitors to subscribing ISIs is currently ten million and is projected to be over 15 million by the end of the grant. The HD visualizations will be used in formal settings, as well. Fifteen schools throughout New York City with large numbers of new English Language Learners will be targeted and professional development for teachers of ELL students will be provided through programs at AMNH as well. AMNH's effort focuses on weather and climate patterns that will be visible in the cloud-data visualizations. All viewers of the media will learn about general circulation patterns and changes in phase of water associated with the hydrologic cycle.","NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, U.S. Geological Survey Headquarters, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution" "Signals of Spring - ACES [Animals in Curriculum-bases Ecosystem Studies]","U.S. Satellite Laboratory","2006: Environmental Literacy",2006,NA06SEC4690006,"$599,862","Glen Schuster","New York",Rye,Westchester,NY16,"40.98353, -73.68647","2006-10-01T00:00:00 - 2009-09-30T00:00:00","Signals of Spring ACES (Animals in Curriculum-based Ecosystem Studies), will use NOAA remote sensing data with curriculum-based activities for middle and high school students (see http://www.signalsofspring.net/aces/). Students use Earth imagery to explain the movement of animals that are tracked by satellite with NOAA's ARGOS monitoring system. The project addresses the issues surrounding the animals and environments of NOAA's National Marine Sanctuaries (NMS). Comprehensive teacher professional development will be delivered both onsite and online for 250 teachers. The project will impact 20,000 students and parents. Ten curriculum modules will be delivered to students, accompanied with an investigation of El Nino and animals, as well as ocean life and global climate change. ACES will provide classrooms with the curricular area of conservation and the ecological issues surrounding the ocean, using marine animals as the engaging component. Students will apply NOAA Earth data to animal migrations and the critical environmental issues that face these animals that are of depleting populations. Once teachers and students have the necessary skills to interpret data, students will perform the ACES investigations.","Eureka City Schools / Eureka High School, Oakland Unified School District / Oakland High School, Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge, Shoreline Unified School District / Tomales High School, Stanford University / Graduate School of Education, Sunnyvale School District (SSD) / Stanley B. Ellis Elementary School, Columbia University / Teachers College, Newark Public Schools District / Ann Street School, University of Washington (UW) / School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, Wheelock College (WhaleNet)"