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" "Connecting Tennessee to the World Ocean","Tennessee Aquarium","2009: Ocean Education Grants for AZA Aquariums",2009,NA09SEC4690041,"$1,352,253","George Bartnik",Tennessee,Chattanooga,Hamilton,TN03,"35.05505, -85.31086","2009-10-01T00:00:00 - 2012-09-30T00:00:00","Connecting Tennessee to the World Ocean is a three-year capacity building project of the Tennessee Aquarium and its partners, the Hamilton County Department of Education, Calvin Donaldson Environmental Science Academy, and NOAA’s National Weather Service. Expanded capacity, in turn, allows the institution to reach a broader audience with a message connecting Tennessee’s waterways to the world ocean. Primary project outcomes are increased ocean literacy and expanded ocean stewardship ethics in targeted Aquarium audiences. A series of specific activities focused on ocean literacy and global change make this possible, including expanding Aquarium classroom capacity by 60% to serve more students, expanded videoconferencing opportunities in partnership with NWS, free admission and programming for underrepresented students from across the region, expanded educational opportunities on the Aquarium’s website, updated interpretive panels focusing on global change, installation of a NOAA WeatherBug station, a civic engagement series, and professional development for Aquarium educators.","Hamilton County Department of Education, Hamilton County School District / Calvin Donaldson Environmental Science Academy, NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Morristown, TN Weather Forecast Office, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Natural Encounters, National Marine Sanctuary (NMS) / Flower Garden Banks"