Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Climate Change Community Outreach Initiative","Florida Aquarium","2009: Ocean Education Grants for AZA Aquariums",2009,NA09SEC4690037,"$630,271","Debbi Stone",Florida,Tampa,Hillsborough,FL14,"27.94659, -82.44514","2009-12-31T23:00:00 - 2015-12-30T23:00:00","To promote ocean and climate change literacy that addresses the needs of our region, six aquariums based on the Gulf of Mexico will partner to educate our communities on both our risks and ways to contribute locally to sustainability. The aquariums will combine community outreach programs, stewardship promotion, social networking and workshops for non-formal educators to reach broad audiences throughout the Gulf in Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas and Mexico. Each partner will develop content that emphasizes local ecosystems and consequences of climate change, tailoring stewardship activities to address them. Over five years, the aquariums will reach out to diverse audiences in their communities, which have populations that total over five million people.","Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, Texas State Aquarium, Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL), Institute for Marine Mammal Studies (IMMS), Spectrum Communications" "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"