Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Shedd-NOAA Partnership for Student, Teacher and Public Engagement","John G. Shedd Aquarium / Shedd Aquarium","2009: Ocean Education Grants for AZA Aquariums",2009,NA09SEC4690042,"$1,100,000","Michelle Parker",Illinois,Chicago,Cook,IL07,"41.86508, -87.61619","2009-10-01T00:00:00 - 2012-09-30T00:00:00","Shedd Aquarium has launched a large-scale effort to address the long-standing need to better connect citizens in the Great Lakes region to their local Great Lakes watershed, to engage them in making positive changes to help the ecosystem, and to engage decision-makers and leaders to enact large scale change to improve the ecosystem over the long term. Through this award, Shedd is positioning itself strategically as the regional hub for Great Lakes education and behavior change by promoting Great Lakes civic engagement. Shedd Aquarium's Center for the Great Lakes is designed to bring scientists, business and government leaders, visionaries, and Great Lakes citizens together to formalize a strategic framework for increasing Great Lakes literacy and fostering Great Lakes stewardship. With the help of leading organizations: NOAA, COSEE Great Lakes, and members of the Healing Our Waters Great Lakes Coalition, a new vision for the Great Lakes region is being created. This civic engagement project is producing needed outcomes: increasing Great Lakes literacy while promoting policies of sustainability that ultimately will support the adoption of a stewardship ethic among our target audiences in the Midwest. Shedd's efforts empower citizens and civic entities to be critical thinkers who fully participate in the advancement of a sustainable society.","Consortium for Ocean Leadership, University of Wisconsin–Madison / Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), U.S. National Park Service, National Wildlife Federation (NWF) / Great Lakes Regional Center, National Park Conservation Association" "A National Coalition of Aquariums Educating About Climate Change","National Aquarium / National Aquarium In Baltimore (NAIB)","2009: Ocean Education Grants for AZA Aquariums",2009,NA09SEC4690046,"$484,751","Nancy Hotchkiss",Maryland,Baltimore,"Baltimore City",MD07,"39.28509, -76.60829","2009-10-01T00:00:00 - 2013-09-30T00:00:00","This collaboration led by three major national aquariums - National Aquarium in Baltimore, Monterey Bay Aquarium, and New England Aquarium - will develop 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. Over three years, the aquariums will increase 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 will 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, Monterey Bay Aquarium, 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)"