Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Science on a Sphere – Earth Systems Display Center at Science Museum of Virginia","Science Museum of Virginia","2010: ELG for Informal/Nonformal Education",2010,NA10SEC0080023,"$297,396","Richard Conti",Virginia,Richmond,"Richmond City",VA04,"37.56145, -77.46565","2010-10-01T00:00:00 - 2012-09-30T00:00:00","The Science Museum of Virginia has assembled a unique team of federal, state, and private institutions to create The Earth System Display Center based on the Science on a Sphere (SOS) platform. The goal of the Center is to capture the visitor's attention and spur interest in climate change literacy and how impacts on a local scale can have an aggregate effect globally. Of particular significance are a docent training program to stimulate and facilitate visitor interaction with the Sphere through dialogue, and formative and summative evaluation of the impact of docent led Sphere experiences with the general public. SOS will anchor a new data display center for examining global impacts of energy consumption, stormwater management, agriculture practices, and climate change - tying together Earth system themes from four major projects now underway at the Science Museum in Richmond, Virginia. Use of NOAA data sets and the Sphere as a dynamic presentation tools coupled with flatscreens will enable the conveyance of local and statewide trends and issues into a compelling global context.","University of Wisconsin–Madison / Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), George Mason University / Center for Climate Change Communication (4C), James Madison University, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Virginia State University (VSU)"