Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Interpreting Global, Half-hourly Cloud Observations to Promote Weather and Climate Literacy","American Museum of Natural History","2006: Environmental Literacy",2006,NA06SEC4690003,"$580,665","Rosamond Kinzler Ph.D","New York","New York","New York",NY12,"40.77994, -73.97102","2006-09-01T00:00:00 - 2010-08-31T00:00:00","AMNH will use NOAA weather satellite data to annotate 72 high definition (HD) video time-series global cloud cover visualizations using thermal infrared brightness temperature data acquired by five geostationary satellites and joined into global mosaics at half-hourly intervals. The HD visualizations will be used in informal and formal education activities and will be made available on the Web. These media pieces will be used for informal education activities at AMNH and 28 other informal science institutions (ISI) around the United States . The target population of visitors to subscribing ISIs is currently ten million and is projected to be over 15 million by the end of the grant. The HD visualizations will be used in formal settings, as well. Fifteen schools throughout New York City with large numbers of new English Language Learners will be targeted and professional development for teachers of ELL students will be provided through programs at AMNH as well. AMNH's effort focuses on weather and climate patterns that will be visible in the cloud-data visualizations. All viewers of the media will learn about general circulation patterns and changes in phase of water associated with the hydrologic cycle.","NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, U.S. Geological Survey Headquarters, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution" "CoCoRaHS: The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network","Colorado State University","2006: Environmental Literacy",2006,NA06SEC4690004,"$585,005","Nolan Doesken",Colorado,"Fort Collins",Larimer,CO02,"40.56877, -105.07922","2006-10-01T00:00:00 - 2010-09-30T00:00:00","The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) involves thousands of people of all ages in the observation and study of weather, climate and water resources. In CoCoRaHS, citizens of all ages help measure and report rain, hail and snow from their own homes, schools and businesses. These data are then efficiently collected via the internet, archived in a national database, and made immediately available to participants, scientists and the general public showing the fascinating patterns of precipitation from each passing storm (see http://www.cocorahs.org). The measurement of precipitation and the patterns, variations and impacts that result, open the door to creative study of our environment. It is the ""lowest common denominator"" of hydroclimatic exploration. In this project, data from the CoCoRaHS citizen science network will be shared with and utilized by NOAA partners to help monitor drought, to help detect local severe storms, to alert local authorities to developing flash flood situations, to provide ""ground truth"" for NOAA and NASA remote sensing technologies, and to provide verification for both local and national weather and climate forecast products.","American Meteorological Society (AMS)"