Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Raindrop: An Innovative Educational Tool for River Awareness","Butler University","2010: ELG for Informal/Nonformal Education",2010,NA10SEC0080027,"$259,770","Timothy Carter",Indiana,Indianapolis,Marion,IN07,"39.83954, -86.16901","2010-10-01T00:00:00 - 2013-09-30T00:00:00","This project will create a new educational tool for river awareness in the United States through a mobile device application called Raindrop. Raindrop traces the flow of water from the user's home location to a downstream watershed location. Raindrop is part of a larger installation named FLOW (Can You See the River?), which joins the cognitive power of science with the affective power of the arts by creating virtual and physical spaces for river awareness in the White River watershed in Indianapolis, IN. In addition to the flow path, Raindrop functionality includes watershed context and physical marker mapping, flow path water quality indicators, utilization of NOAA weather feeds and alerts, weather and climate comparisons, storm event size implications, and guidance on watershed restoration actions. Artist-designed physical markers are strategically located in the watershed to direct the virtual user to physical areas of interest.","Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), IUPUI's Center for Earth & Environmental Science (CEES), IUPUI's Indianapolis Mapping and Geographic Infrastructure System (IMAGIS), Marian University, City as a Living Laboratory, Office of the Mayor of Indianapolis, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Purdue University / Indiana State Climate Office (Iclimate), Project School, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) / Indiana Water Science Center, White River Alliance, Williams Creek Consulting" "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)"