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 Programming: Presenting NOAA Science at the Maryland Science Center, the Science Museum of Minnesota, and in the National Traveling Exhibition ""Water Planet""","Science Museum of Minnesota","2005: Environmental Literacy",2005,NA05SEC4691009,"$219,999","Patrick Hamilton",Minnesota,"Saint Paul",Ramsey,MN04,"44.94354, -93.09868","2005-10-01T00:00:00 - 2007-09-30T00:00:00","Using the relative strengths of each museum, the Science On a Sphere® Partnership between the Maryland Science Center and the Science Museum of Minnesota has developed two complementary exhibit approaches to Science On a Sphere® (SOS). Audiences interacting with SOS are able to observe global connections in geophysical phenomena not possible with any two dimensional representation of the Earth. The goal of the project is for museum visitors, particularly underserved audiences, to comprehend how human activities are influencing global processes now and might do so in the future. The project also tests new partnership models for working with NOAA and other science research organizations to broaden the educational impact on all groups.","American Museum of Natural History, Maryland Science Center, Augsburg College, Macalester College, Field Museum of Natural History, Great Lakes Science Center, Johns Hopkins University, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), Morgan State University, San Diego Natural History Museum, University of Maryland / Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland (UMD) Baltimore County, University of Saint Catherine, University of Saint Thomas, WMAR-Television" "Science-on-a-Sphere Installation: Presenting NOAA Science at the Maryland Science Center, the Science Museum of Minnesota, and in the National Traveling Exhibition ""Water Planet""","Science Museum of Minnesota","2005: Environmental Literacy",2005,NA05SEC4691012,"$170,000","Patrick Hamilton",Minnesota,"Saint Paul",Ramsey,MN04,"44.94354, -93.09868","2005-10-01T00:00:00 - 2007-09-30T00:00:00","This award supports the installation of a Science On a Sphere® in two museums comprising the SOS Partnership®, a collaboration between the Maryland Science Center (Baltimore) and the Science Museum of Minnesota (Saint Paul). Each of the two museum installations will take advantage of the wide variety of NOAA data sets that Science On a Sphere® (SOS) projects onto a six-foot sphere, creating unique, animated, whole-planet views of real-time, past and forecasted, weather, climate and geophysical processes, and many other dramatic visualizations of the whole Earth.","American Museum of Natural History, Maryland Science Center, Maryland Science Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Great Lakes Science Center, San Diego Natural History Museum"