Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Hurricanes and Climate Change: Local Impacts and Global Systems","Miami Museum of Science / Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science","2010: ELG for Informal/Nonformal Education",2010,NA10SEC0080024,"$500,921","Jennifer Santer",Florida,Miami,Miami-Dade,FL27,"25.78533, -80.19013","2010-10-01T00:00:00 - 2012-12-30T23:00:00","The Miami Science Museum, in collaboration with Ideum and the Institute for Learning Innovation, is designing and developing an interactive multi-user exhibit that allows visitors to explore the global dimensions and local impacts of climate change. The exhibit will raise public understanding about the underlying science, the human causes, and the potential impacts of climate change by combining the attraction of a 4-foot spherical display with a user-controlled interface that lets visitors control the sphere and choose from a range of global and local content they wish to explore. A particular focus is on climate-related impacts on coastal communities, including the dangers posed by rising sea level and the possibility of more intense hurricanes. The project emphasizes engagement of diverse, multigenerational audiences through development of an interface that is fully bilingual and that promotes social interaction. The open-source learning module will be adaptable by other museums, to explore climate impacts specific to their region.","Institute for Learning Innovation, Ideum, University of Miami / Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS)" "Planet Earth Decision Theater","Science Museum of Minnesota","2010: ELG for Informal/Nonformal Education",2010,NA10SEC0080021,"$504,386","Patrick Hamilton",Minnesota,"Saint Paul",Ramsey,MN04,"44.94354, -93.09868","2010-10-01T00:00:00 - 2014-09-30T00:00:00","Through the Planet Earth Decision Theater project, the Science Museum of Minnesota and its partners will upgrade the museum's current SOS exhibit with new SOS learning experiences, produce for the SOS community a new SOS film about the role of humans as the dominant agents of global change and two new presenter-led SOS programs based on the film with one version utilizing an audience feedback mechanism called iClickers. SMM also will complement its Planet Earth Decision Theater and the Maryland Science Center's SOS exhibit with the addition of Rain Table (a new interactive scientific visualization platform) at both locations to further reinforce the Anthropocene messages of the new SOS film and programs. SMM will conduct extensive evaluations of the new SOS film, programs and Rain Tables. SMM's partners on this project include the NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab, University of Minnesota's National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, University of Minnesota's Antarctic Geospatial Information Center, University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment, Maryland Science Center, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Institute for Learning Innovation, George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication, and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at University of Illinois-Chicago.","Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, Institute for Learning Innovation, Maryland Science Center, Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) Chicago, Lawrence Hall of Science, University of Colorado Boulder / Fiske Planetarium, Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, George Mason University / Center for Climate Change Communication (4C), University of Minnesota / Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota / National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED)"