Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education Scale-up Initiative","National Geographic Society","2012: NOAA Broad Agency Announcement for FY 2012—2013",2012,NA12SEC0080021,"$1,921,378","Kathleen Schwille","District of Columbia",Washington,"District of Columbia",DC00,"38.90514, -77.0381","2012-07-01T00:00:00 - 2014-09-30T00:00:00","The Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education Scale-up Initiative is a project-based educational program that engages students in 21st century investigations of watershed concepts using real-time geospatial technology. The project's goal is to provide as many as 20,000 students across eight states with a dynamic, geographic learning experience that combines classroom learning activities with outdoor field experiences and technology-supported inquiry. To achieve this goal, the project will provide professional development for 400 educators across the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. This project builds on an existing educational citizen science project launched by the National Geographic Society in 2009 to study water quality in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and has been designed to serve as a national model for the implementation of classroom and field-based learning.","Delaware Department of Education, Longwood University, Rowan University, Spotsylvania County Public Schools, Sultana Education Foundation, Concord University, Monroe Community College in Rochester, Mountain Institute, Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Renfrew Institute, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, Social Studies Coalition of Delaware (SSCD), South Jersey Land and Water Trust, State University of New York at Buffalo, University of Delaware, University of Maryland / Center for Environmental Science / Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland (UMD) Baltimore County" "Families by the Seaside: Building Community-based Outdoor Ocean Science Learning Experiences","Seacoast Science Center","2010: ELG for Informal/Nonformal Education",2010,NA10SEC0080026,"$489,574","Wendy Lull","New Hampshire",Rye,Rockingham,NH01,"43.04527, -70.71414","2010-11-01T00:00:00 - 2014-09-30T00:00:00","This 2-year program will advance the way informal ocean science education institutions reach underserved/underrepresented families by facilitating and formalizing relationships between informal science education centers and community based organizations. Project teams in five New England communities will collaborate to create a practicable, outdoor ocean-science learning experience specifically designed for families in their shared service area. Building on a needs assessment produced through target-audience focus groups, the program will combine coastal field experiences with web-based interactive and participatory learning activities developed and tested by the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL; www.eol.org/) and the Northeast Regional Association for Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS) to support in-field and ongoing learning. Science content will be informed and vetted by NOAA research scientists and work between the science centers and community organizations will be professionally facilitated. Formats and effectiveness will be evaluated by external evaluators and revised throughout the project.","New England Aquarium Corporation / New England Aquarium (NEAq), Sea Research Foundation / Mystic Aquarium, BOAT CAMP, Inc., Girls Incorporated of Lynn, JumpStart Youth Connection, U.S. Navy / Naval Submarine Base / New London, Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS), Portsmouth Housing Authority, Center for Teen Empowerment, Harvard University / Encyclopedia of Life, Northeastern University (NU) / Marine Science Center (MSC)"