Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Worldviews Network: Ecological Literacy Programming for Digital Planetariums and Beyond","Denver Museum of Nature and Science","2010: ELG for Informal/Nonformal Education",2010,NA10SEC0080011,"$850,314","Ka Chun Yu",Colorado,Denver,Denver,CO01,"39.74752, -104.94087","2010-10-01T00:00:00 - 2014-09-30T00:00:00","The Worldviews Network - a collaboration of institutions that have pioneered Earth systems research, education and evaluation methods - is creating innovative approaches for engaging the American public in dialogues about human-induced global changes. Leveraging the power of immersive scientific visualization environments at informal science centers across the US, we are developing transformative educational processes that integrate the benefits of visual thinking, systems thinking, and design thinking. This ""seeing, knowing, doing"" approach empowers educators with tools and techniques that help audiences to visualize, comprehend, and address complex issues from a whole-systems perspective. The Worldviews Network will make explicit the interconnections of Earth’s life support systems across time and space as well as inspire community participation in design processes by providing real-world examples of successful projects that are increasing the healthy functioning of regional and global ecosystems","American Museum of Natural History, California Academy of Sciences, Institute for Learning Innovation, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, NASA Ames Exploration Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Bell Museum, Elumenati, Journey Museum & Learning Center, University of Michigan / Museum of Natural History, University of North Carolina at Asheville, WGBH Educational Foundation, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) National Center for Atmospheric Research, Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, Colorado State University / Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)" "Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS)","Colorado State University","2010: ELG for Informal/Nonformal Education",2010,NA10SEC0080012,"$1,252,392","Chris Kummerow",Colorado,"Fort Collins",Larimer,CO02,"40.56877, -105.07922","2010-10-01T00:00:00 - 2015-09-30T00:00:00","The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) is a citizen science program where thousands of volunteers across the country measure and report the amount of precipitation that falls each day in their own neighborhood. In the next three years CoCoRaHS will use strategies from the “Citizen Science Toolkit” and align activities to the “Essential Principles to Climate Science” to engage thousands more participants in collecting, reporting and exploring precipitation. Evapotranspiration measurements will be added to teach and demonstrate the hydrologic cycle in action. Through strong NOAA partnerships with the National Weather Service, the National Climatic Data Center, the Earth Systems Research Lab and the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center, precipitation data quality and accessibility for professional users will be enhanced. The CoCoRaHS network will be constructing training, data entry and visualization tools utilizing Web 2.0 concepts, cyberlearning tools and hand-held device applications with a goal of increasing participation and expanding the volunteer network into broader, younger, more diverse audiences.","Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Birch Aquarium at Scripps, Cornell University / Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Oregon State University / PRISM Climate Group, Colorado Division of Water Resources, State Engineers Office, University of South Carolina (USC) / Department of Geography, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), NOAA National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center, NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) / National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Avalanche Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture Headquarters, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA)"