Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "NOAA Earth System Science Courses: Building on the Earth System Science Education Alliance (ESSEA)","Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)","2008/2009: ELG for Formal K-12 Education",2009,NA09SEC4690011,"$645,815","Robert Myers",Virginia,Arlington,Arlington,VA08,"38.8943, -77.07719","2009-09-01T00:00:00 - 2012-08-31T00:00:00","The Earth System Science Education Alliance (ESSEA) is a successful teacher professional development program enhancing K-12 teachers' environmental literacy and ability to teach Earth System Science. The ESSEA 40+ educational institution consortium is supporting universities and other educational institutions in teacher preparation and professional development for pre-service and in-service K-12 teachers. This NOAA-funded project enhances and builds on this foundation by: 1) Using the ESSEA online courses as a model to introduce newly upgraded Earth system science undergraduate and graduate courses for teachers; 2) Introducing new Earth System Science data, analysis tools and educational resources to support the teacher courses; and 3) Disseminating model teaching practices and program success through annual conferences, continuing support, and presentations at geoscience and education conferences.","Birch Aquarium at Scripps, Texas A&M University at College Station, University of Maine / Ocean Systems Central Office School of Marine Sciences (COSEE)"