Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Measuring the Effectiveness of North American Environmental Education Programs with Respect to the Parameters of Environmental Literacy","North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE)","2008: National Environmental Literacy Assessment",2008,NA08SEC4690026,"$288,417","Darlene Dorsey","District of Columbia",Washington,"District of Columbia",DC00,"38.9094, -77.0452","2007-12-31T23:00:00 - 2010-12-30T23:00:00","The North American Association of Environmental Education (NAAEE) will assess environmental literacy levels of middle school students and compare the results to baseline data collected nationwide in 2007. In this study the research team will solicit and select a purposeful sample of schools and other program sites that represent the following categories: (1) Networks, e.g., Lieberman schools, Earth Force/Green Schools, Blue Ribbon School, etc.; (2) Programs, e.g. WET, WILD, PLT, IEEIA, etc.); (3) environmentally focused Charter and Magnet Schools; and (4) Independent Schools. By comparing 2008 programmatic assessments to the established 2007 base-line levels of environmental literacy (while investigating the variables that may contribute to school wide or classroom levels of literacy), the field of environmental education and NOAA may make future curricular and program decisions that are grounded in sound scientific data. The Research Team will review these results and generate a report to be submitted to NOAA and NAAEE (and other partners as needed). These results comprise a presentation at the annual NAAEE Conference and other venues. Articles will be submitted to professional newsletters and journals.","Florida Institute of Technology, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, University of Wisconsin–Platteville" "AMS/NOAA Cooperative Program for Earth System Education (CPESE)","American Meteorological Society (AMS)","2012: AMS Datastreme Program",2012,NA12SEC0080020,"$1,857,200","Wendy Abshire",Massachusetts,Boston,Suffolk,MA08,"42.35692, -71.06927","2012-10-01T00:00:00 - 2017-09-30T00:00:00","The Cooperative Program for Earth System Education (CPESE) – with assistance from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service and the State University of New York (SUNY) at Brockport – is a major collaboration between the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and NOAA that advances NOAA’s mission of Science, Service, and Stewardship by sharing knowledge and information about weather, climate, and the ocean. CPESE facilitates national offering of the DataStreme Atmosphere and DataStreme Ocean courses and supports Project ATMOSPHERE leadership training workshops at the National Weather Service Training Center (Kansas City) for in-service K-12 educators. Over five years, about 3,000 teacher participants will earn graduate credits through a partnership with SUNY at Brockport and become confident Earth science educators capable of implementing engaging, pedagogically appropriate activities in their classrooms. These educators are expected to impact more than 30,000 additional educators and one million K-12 students. In addition to the professional development for in-service K-12 educators, CPESE enables the AMS to design curricula for introductory college-level Earth science courses, which help prepare pre-service educators. CPESE is built on a shared vision that highly trained educators are key to an environmentally and geo-scientifically literate public.","State University of New York at Brockport, NOAA National Weather Service (NWS), NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO), NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), NOAA Office of Education, NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Mount Holly, NJ Weather Forecast Office, NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Grand Rapids, MI Forecast Office, Pennsylvania Western University (PennWest)"