Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Conservation Solutions: Developing America's Zoos and Aquariums into Centers for Leadership and Innovation","Ocean Foundation / The Ocean Project","2012: NOAA Broad Agency Announcement for FY 2012—2013",2013,NA13SEC0080013,"$546,898","William Mott","District of Columbia",Washington,"District of Columbia",DC00,"38.90543, -77.04676","2013-10-01T00:00:00 - 2016-09-30T00:00:00","The Ocean Project will empower America's zoos, aquariums and science museums to become centers of innovation and effective leadership for healthy oceans and conservation in their communities, providing meaningful engagement opportunities for their 200 million annual visitors to become involved in helping with solutions. To help them do so, The Ocean Project is launching a competitive ""Innovative Solutions Grants Program"" that will provide financial resources for zoos, aquariums and science museums to develop innovative local and regional ocean conservation solutions and stewardship initiatives, with a special emphasis on engaging youth and minorities. To leverage and maximize the benefit of this small grants program, The Ocean Project will also provide the awardees with opportunities for capacity building in strategic communications and share the resulting new strategies and successes with our growing partner network of 2000 zoos, aquariums, science museums and other conservation and education organizations in all 50 States and worldwide.","National Aquarium / National Aquarium In Baltimore (NAIB), New England Aquarium Corporation / New England Aquarium (NEAq), Florida Aquarium, Oregon Coast Aquarium, North Carolina Aquarium Society, Philadelphia Zoo, Riverbanks Zoo and Garden, Woodland Park Zoo, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Saint Louis Zoological Park, NOAA Office of Education" "Continuing of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB) Competitions","Consortium for Ocean Leadership","2014: National Ocean Sciences Competition for High School Students",2014,NA14SEC0080006,"$154,934","Kristen Yarincik","District of Columbia",Washington,"District of Columbia",DC00,"38.90098, -77.02858","2014-09-01T00:00:00 - 2015-08-31T00:00:00","The National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB), initiated in 1998, is a nationally recognized high school academic competition through which talented students excel in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields and are introduced to ocean science as an interdisciplinary field of study and a possible career path. As the NOSB also engages high school teachers, schools, and local communities in the competition and other program elements, it results in broader awareness of the ocean sciences and environmental issues and increased attitudes toward stewardship of ocean resources within these audiences. The program operates with the involvement of the ocean science research and professional community. Support from NOAA is requested to support about 20% of NOSB national office staff time needed for total program implementation, subawards to the regional competitions, and site visits for planning the 2015 national finals.",