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: Bringing the Oceans to You","North Carolina Aquarium Society / North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island","2008: ELG for Spherical Display Systems for Earth Systems Science-Installations & Content",2008,NA08SEC4690031,"$200,000","Andrea Hitt","North Carolina",Manteo,Dare,NC03,"35.91781, -75.70441","2008-09-01T00:00:00 - 2009-08-31T00:00:00","Through this award, the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island (NCARI) has installed NOAA's Science on a Sphere (SOS) to enhance and expand their existing Storms exhibit. NCARI's location on the Outer Banks makes understanding ocean systems critically important. Installing SOS increases environmental literacy by exposing NCARI's 300,000 annual visitors to NOAA datasets and information. Additionally, through educational programming students, teachers, and visitors obtain current and accurate information to help them make better-informed decisions. Workshops hosted at NCARI have provided valuable professional development opportunities for both informal educators and NOAA staff.", "Science On a Sphere in the Forces of Nature Exhibition","Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts","2008: ELG for Spherical Display Systems for Earth Systems Science-Installations & Content",2008,NA08SEC4690034,"$198,744","L. Bishop",Pennsylvania,Harrisburg,Dauphin,PA10,"40.26078, -76.88139","2008-09-01T00:00:00 - 2009-12-30T23:00:00","Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is developing a new permanent public exhibition gallery focusing on environmental and earth systems science to be called Forces of Nature. With NOAA support, Science On a Sphere will be the centerpiece for this new gallery. A collaboration is planned between Whitaker Center and the Department of Meteorology at The Pennsylvania State University in which existing datasets provided by Penn State researchers with NOAA data and meteorological models will be prepared for presentation on spherical display systems.","Pennsylvania State University (PSU) / Department of Meteorology"