Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Aquarium-wide Climate Change and the Ocean Initiative: Public Engagement from Awareness to Action","Monterey Bay Aquarium","2009: Ocean Education Grants for AZA Aquariums",2009,NA09SEC4690040,"$915,885","Cynthia Vernon",California,Monterey,Monterey,CA19,"36.61813, -121.90212","2009-10-01T00:00:00 - 2013-09-30T00:00:00","As part of its on-going commitment to engage, inform, and inspire visitors around issues of critical importance to ocean conservation, the Monterey Bay Aquarium opened the nation's first live aquatic animal exhibition on climate change and the ocean. This award supports a comprehensive and integrated suite of associated informal educational activities, designed to extend the exhibit experience and allow visitors to explore this critically important topic in more depth during their visit and after leaving the Aquarium. These activities include: community engagement events, virtual reality auditorium programs using Google Earth, musical theater presentations, and exhibit interactives that allow audiences to discuss solutions to ocean issues. Over the course of three years, this initiative will reach more than 4.5 million people and: 1) raise public awareness about the connection between climate change and ocean health; 2) demonstrate that public actions do have an impact on climate change (and therefore ocean health); and 3) encourage meaningful action to address climate change.", "A National Coalition of Aquariums Educating About Climate Change","Monterey Bay Aquarium","2009: Ocean Education Grants for AZA Aquariums",2009,NA09SEC4690045,"$505,679","Cynthia Vernon",California,Monterey,Monterey,CA19,"36.61813, -121.90212","2009-10-01T00:00:00 - 2013-03-31T00:00:00","This collaboration led by three major national aquariums - Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBAq), National Aquarium in Baltimore (NAIB), and New England Aquarium (NEAq) - is developing a leadership initiative to build capacity within aquariums and related informal science education institutions nation-wide, enabling education staff to engage and inspire millions of visitors to take action about climate change and the ocean. The project increases climate literacy among informal science educators by: 1) creating a national network for training, resource sharing and support; 2) developing climate change activity carts to support exhibit interpretation; 3) providing training for youth interpreters; and 4) hosting regional and national summits to strengthen collaboration and showcase and disseminate model programs. Outcomes for educators include increased knowledge of climate change science; knowledge of strategies, tools and materials for educating about climate change; and confidence in their ability to communicate about climate change.","North Carolina Aquarium Society / North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island, California Academy of Sciences, National Aquarium / National Aquarium In Baltimore (NAIB), New England Aquarium Corporation / New England Aquarium (NEAq), Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science / Alaska SeaLife Center, Florida Aquarium, National Association for Interpretation (NAI)"