Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Aquarium of the Pacific's Ocean Science Center (SOS): Ocean-Earth Stories Connecting People, the Ocean and Climate Change","Aquarium of the Pacific","2009: Ocean Education Grants for AZA Aquariums",2009,NA09SEC4690044,"$1,086,936","Jerry Schubel",California,"Long Beach","Los Angeles",CA42,"33.76359, -118.1946","2009-10-01T00:00:00 - 2012-09-30T00:00:00","The Aquarium of the Pacific is creating an immersive exhibit for exploring the role of the ocean in climate change and its responses under different scenarios. The center of the experience is NOAA's Science On a Sphere (SOS), a proven platform for displaying a rich variety of earth system datasets that reveal global and large scale region processes and phenomena that are easily grasped by the general public. Combining SOS with a system of linked plasma screens allows additional local and regional stories that bring global messages down to a more personal level. Two programs are being developed initially focusing on: (1) implications of sea level rise, and (2) marine ecosystems. Both explore how the vulnerability of systems can be reduced and their resiliency enhanced through mitigation and adaptation.","Discovery Cube Orange County (OC), Dangermond Keane Architecture, LLC, Google Headquarters, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, University of California at Irvine"