Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "A NOAA Spherical Display System at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park","Smithsonian Institution / National Zoological Park","2008: ELG for Spherical Display Systems for Earth Systems Science-Installations & Content",2008,NA08SEC4690035,"$196,016","Miles Roberts","District of Columbia",Washington,"District of Columbia",DC00,"38.93193, -77.05244","2008-06-01T00:00:00 - 2011-05-31T00:00:00","The Smithsonian National Zoological Park (SNZP) in Washington, DC is integrating the NOAA Science on a Sphere(SOS) spherical display system into SNZP's Amazonia Science Gallery (ASG). The SOS system at ASG will be seen in person by tens of thousands of visitors each year and potentially by millions more through electronic outreach programs. The SOS system will become an integral part of the exhibit and will be used for both informal and formal science education programs at the National Zoo.",