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NOAA brings thousands of K-12 teachers and students around the country outside for hands-on environmental education opportunities as part of Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) projects. In fiscal year 2018, one hundred and fifty-nine new and continuing projects benefitted from a total of over $7 million in funding from the NOAA Office of Education’s B-WET program.
Michigan teachers experience fisheries science during two-day Lake Huron Place-Based Education Summer Teacher Institute in Alcona County, MI. (Michigan Sea Grant)
In 2018, funded projects include: students and teachers engaging with community partners to learn about Great Lakes fisheries and watershed stewardship opportunities aligned with their school improvement and learning goals; students at four Title 1 schools directly contributing to a statewide effort to monitor rocky intertidal and sandy beach habitats of California’s national marine sanctuaries through LiMPETS; and 4th grade students being taught the basics of salmon and stream ecology and restoring critical salmon habitat in Whatcom County to help improve the health of the Salish Sea.
B-WET currently serves seven areas of the country: California, Chesapeake Bay, Great Lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, Hawaii, New England, and the Pacific Northwest. Grantees were selected through a rigorous peer review process administered by a NOAA program office in their region. All B-WET applicants are encouraged to partner with local NOAA offices, and/or utilize local NOAA field sites and data where appropriate. Awards in the Great Lakes region are made possible by funds from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
2018 B-WET awards, by region, are:
California
Recipient
Project
State
Amount
Coastal Watershed Council
Watershed Rangers
Santa Cruz, CA
$37,486
Earth Team
Aqua Team - Sustainable Youth Watershed Internships
Richmond, CA
$41,872
Girl Scouts of Northern California
Green By Nature
Alameda, CA
$49,997
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
Expanding the Impact of Project WISE (Watersheds Inspiring Student Education)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
Greater Farallones Association
LiMPETS Climate Literacy Project
San Francisco, CA
$38,261
Marin County Office of Education
Connecting NGSS To Marin's Bay and Ocean Backyard
San Rafael, CA
$59,970
Monterey Bay Salmon and Trout
Salmon and Trout Education Program (STEP) to the Sea
Davenport, CA
$35,968
MERITO Foundation
Energy Efficiency to Mitigate Climate Change and Ocean Acidification
Ventura, CA
$59,930
Santa Barbara Unified School District
Connecting the NGSS to the Natural Laboratory of the Santa Barbara Channel and its Watershed
Santa Barbara, CA
$51,074
Save the Whales
From Soledad to the Ocean: Teaching Coastal Stewardship to South County Title 1 School Children
Seaside, CA
$36,097
Treasure Island Sailing Center
Sailing to Save the Sea Program
San Francisco, CA
$43,226
Chesapeake Bay
Recipient
Project
State
Amount
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Systemic Solutions: Advancing Environmental Literacy & Supporting Clean Water Initiatives in the Susquehanna Watershed
Annapolis, MD
$329,813
Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District
Environmental Literacy in the Piedmont
Culpeper, VA
$247,661
Earth Force
Alexandria Youth Action for the Bay (AYAB)
Denver, CO
$329,162
Friends of Rappahannock
Rappahannock MWEE Expansion Program: Creating A Model for a Sustainable MWEE
Fredericksburg, VA
$329,926
Gettysburg College
What's in the water? Investigating and controlling runoff in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed of Pennsylvania
Gettysburg, PA
$444,952
Maymont Foundation
Bay Watershed in Science Education (BWISE)
Richmond, VA
$449,224
National Aquarium
What Lives in the Harbor?
Baltimore, MD
$432,628
National Audubon Society
Audubon Chesapeake Exploration (ACE) with Wicomico County Public School Students and Teachers
New York, NY
$377,577
Nature Conservancy
Student and Teacher Experiential Environmental Learning (STEEL): Implementation of Systemic Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences on the Eastern Shore of Virginia
Arlington, VA
$326,300
Northbay Education, Inc
NorthBay and School District of Lancaster Systemic MWEE Program for Middle School Teachers and Students
North East, MD
$390,234
Saint Francis University
Headwaters to Estuaries: Enhancing Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences with Immersive Technology
Loretto, MD
$369,980
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Wave of Plastic: Student Inquiry of Plastic Waste and its Impacts on Marine Ecosystems
Watershed Stories: Learners Exploring their Place in the Ecosystem
Duluth, MN
$55,000
West Michigan Environmental Action Council Education Foundation
WAKE Zone: Watershed Advocates for Kids’ Engagement
Grand Rapids, MI
$70,000
Gulf of Mexico
Recipient
Project
State
Amount
Calcasieu Parish School System
Wetland Restoration Through Aquaponics
Lake Charles, AL
$99,293
Florida Aquarium
Our Tampa Bay Watershed: Spring to the Gulf
Tampa, FL
$99,978
Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation
Discovering the Secrets of Pontchartrain Beach: Revealing Mysteries Using STEM Methods
New Orleans, LA
$70,000
Mississippi State University
Old Fort Bayou Watershed Education and Civic Engagement
Mississippi State, MS
$68,954
Pinellas County School Board
Elementary Students and Teachers Exploring the Watershed
Largo, FL
$94,092
University of Southern Mississippi (Gulf Coast Research Laboratory)
A MWEE to Promote Community Resilience to Coastal Hazards
Hattiesburg, MS
$99,511
Hawaii
Recipient
Project
State
Amount
The Kohala Center
Ke Kumu Aina: Restoring the Kawaihae 1 and Kawaihae 2 Watersheds
Kamuela, HI
$71,000
Kupu
Kupu Hawaii Youth Conservation Corps Community Program
Honolulu, HI
$150,000
Malama Pupukea-Waimea
Ka Papa Kai: Expansion of Ocean Education & Service Learning at Pupukea MLCD
Haleiwa, HI
$35,898
Maui Economic Development Board
Healthy Watersheds -> Healthy Communities Project
Kihei, HI
$150,000
Pacific American Foundation
NALU Studies Kauai Phase II: Leadership and Mentoring Program
Kaneohe, HI
$150,000
Pacific American Foundation
WIRED Program, Phase III: Watershed Investigation, Research, Education, and Design
Kaneohe, HI
$150,000
School for Examining Essential Questions of Sustainability
Essential Questions of Sustainability (EQS): Learning from Our Ahupuaa - Clean Water, Ocean Energy and Sea-Level Rise
Honolulu, HI
$145,851
University of Hawaii (Manoa)
Our Project In Hawaii's Intertidal (OPIHI): Kilo Ae Kai - Observer of the Place Where the Sea and Land Meet
Honolulu, HI
$149,994
Pacific Northwest
Recipient
Project
State
Amount
Feiro Marine Life Center
North Olympic Watershed Science Program (NOW Science)
Port Angeles, WA
$46,298
Lummi Indian Business Council
Lummi Nation Youth: Importance of Water Quality and Healthy Watersheds to the Lummi Schelangen (“Way of Life”)
Bellingham, WA
$59,698
Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group
Watershed & Ocean Connections
White Salmon, WA
$58,562
Nisqually River Foundation
Climate Literacy, Action, and Monitoring in South Sound (CLAMSS)
Olympia, WA
$59,493
Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association
Students for Salmon (SFS) Program
Bellingham, WA
$59,283
Oregon State University
MWEEs by the Sea II: Expanding Opportunities for Oregon Coast Educators and Students to Engage in Project Based Learning
Corvallis, OR
$60,000
Port Townsend School District #50
Building Awareness and Understanding of Ocean Acidification in a Coastal Community
Port Townsend, WA
$47,296
RE Sources
Young Rural Water Stewards Project
Bellingham, WA
$48,949
Funding amounts listed above are full federal award amounts for all years of the award. In addition to the awards listed above, NOAA supported 106 continuing awards. For more details about B-WET awards, please visit the regional program websites.