Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Carbon Networks","Pacific Science Center","2013: ELG for Building Capacity of Informal and Formal Educators",2014,NA14SEC0080003,"$88,478","Keni Sturgeon",Washington,Seattle,King,WA07,"47.61944, -122.35137","2014-09-01T00:00:00 - 2017-08-31T00:00:00","Carbon Networks is a three-year collaborative project that aims to improve public understanding of the impacts of ocean acidification and atmospheric carbon dioxide on the environment. It involves three informal education partners - the Exploratorium in San Francisco, the Waikiki Aquarium in Hawaii, and the Pacific Science Center in Seattle - working together to provide professional development for staff and local educators, as well as create educational programs and activities for museum visitors using authentic ocean and atmospheric data. The project aims to address the disconnect between scientific evidence and the public's understanding of these impacts by developing and implementing professional development workshops and training programs that connect local ocean and atmospheric data with regional, Pacific, and global systems. The goal is to create meaningful place-based education narratives and activities that help people better understand the evolving narrative and impact of ocean acidification and climate change.","Exploratorium, Seattle Aquarium, U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System / NANOOS, University of California at Santa Barbara, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) / West Coast, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) / Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Sanctuary (NMS) / Channel Islands, National Marine Sanctuary (NMS) / Greater Farallones, National Marine Sanctuary (NMS) / Cordell Bank, National Marine Sanctuary (NMS) / Olympic Coast, U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System / CeNCOOS, University of California—Berkeley, National Marine Sanctuary (NMS) / Monterey Bay, University of Hawaii System / Waikiki Aquarium, National Sea Grant College Program / University of Washington (UW), U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System / PacIOOS, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) / Alaska Fisheries Science Center" "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)"