Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Learn, Prepare, Act – Resilient Citizens Make Resilient Communities","Science Museum of Virginia","2015: ELG for Community Resilience to Extreme Weather Events and Environmental Changes",2015,NA15SEC0080009,"$477,052","Jeremy Hoffman",Virginia,Richmond,"Richmond City",VA04,"37.56145, -77.46565","2015-12-31T23:00:00 - 2018-12-30T23:00:00","The Science Museum of Virginia’s three-year informal climate change resilience education project, “Your Actions Matter: Resilient Citizens Make Resilient Communities,” yielded three overarching lessons learned: 1) understand and use organizational strengths and limitations to advance resilience education, 2) Arts and Humanities are critical for resilience education, and 3) localize the story of climate change and its solutions. Our programming relied on planning and executing two, 5-week “Climate Connections” Lecture Series featuring national climate science researchers, three annual “Prepareathon” events to connect communities with emergency management personnel and services (as well as local meteorologists and climate scientists), two community-focused workshops to engage guests in building resilience to extreme precipitation and urban heat, producing dozens of radio and video programs for public dissemination of climate science concepts, hosting several “Extreme Event Challenge” facilitations for guests to assume manager roles in a crisis, designed numerous scripts and dataset playlists for daily SOS presentations, production of a large format film about cosmic perspectives on climate change, performed theatrical scripts of human sides of climate impacts, leveraged artistic expression and sonification of climate science datasets in public events and exhibits, and undertook the first citizen science climate change campaign in the Museum’s history. Our audiences regularly stretched from preschool learners to retirement-aged individuals, served many thousands from formal education and professional organizations, and that our programming regularly attracted audiences from government agencies, policymakers, fine arts institutions, and urban planners. Our audience reach easily surpassed 1.2 million people locally, nationally, and internationally, with most from metro-Richmond, Virginia. Based on formative evaluation, our substantial restructuring of our initially proposed programming model yielded high-impact educational outcomes. “Ready Row Homes: Preparing for a Hotter, Wetter Virginia” experience achieved highest educational impact of communicating both climate change science and individual resilience behaviors. Our SOS facilitations and Large Format Film, Cosmic Climate Cookbook, performed highly in communicating climate science, but relatively limited in resilience behavior. Extreme Event Challenge has high impact for communicating resilience strategies, but not as well in communicating climate science. Our informative climate science Lecture Series were comparatively limited in communicating resilience. This array of programming successes was greatly improved by collaborations with project partners: WCVE disseminated audio and video programs; George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication guided our storytelling techniques for SOS; NOAA assets (i.e., NWS, Chesapeake Bay Office, SOS Network) contributed information and speakers; Randi Korn & Associates provided evaluation; Resilient Virginia marketed programs and designed workshops; and Virginia Institute of Marine Science provided significant expertise through speakers and datasets. New, substantial project partners included Groundwork RVA (co-developed “Throwing Shade in RVA” teen program and participated in urban heat island citizen science projects); Alliance for Chesapeake Bay (provided free rain barrels and workshop educational content); Richmond City’s Department of Planning Review and Sustainability Office coordinated dissemination of outreach materials and executed urban heat island citizen science project; and Franklin Institute (helped guide development of a Virginia-specific facilitation of Ready Row Home hands-on experiences).","University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Center for Science Education, George Mason University / Center for Climate Change Communication (4C), Franklin Institute, Nature Conservancy Headquarters, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) / Marine Advisory Services, NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO), Resilient Virginia, Community Idea Stations, NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office, NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Wakefield, VA Forecast Office, National Sea Grant College Program / Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), Virginia Environmental Endowment, Virginia Commonwealth University / Center for Environmental Studies, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, University of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University / School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University / School of Engineering, Richmond City Sustainability, Portland State University / Sustaining Urban Places Research (SUPR) Lab, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VDEQ), Virginia Department of Health, Sierra Club / Virginia Chapter, Virginia Academy of Science, Groundwork RVA, City of Richmond / Planning and Development Review, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden / Beautiful RVA, Maryland Department of Health, Department of Energy and Environment, Enrichmond Foundation"