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" "Connecting Tennessee to the World Ocean","Tennessee Aquarium","2009: Ocean Education Grants for AZA Aquariums",2009,NA09SEC4690041,"$1,352,253","George Bartnik",Tennessee,Chattanooga,Hamilton,TN03,"35.05505, -85.31086","2009-10-01T00:00:00 - 2012-09-30T00:00:00","Connecting Tennessee to the World Ocean is a three-year capacity building project of the Tennessee Aquarium and its partners, the Hamilton County Department of Education, Calvin Donaldson Environmental Science Academy, and NOAA’s National Weather Service. Expanded capacity, in turn, allows the institution to reach a broader audience with a message connecting Tennessee’s waterways to the world ocean. Primary project outcomes are increased ocean literacy and expanded ocean stewardship ethics in targeted Aquarium audiences. A series of specific activities focused on ocean literacy and global change make this possible, including expanding Aquarium classroom capacity by 60% to serve more students, expanded videoconferencing opportunities in partnership with NWS, free admission and programming for underrepresented students from across the region, expanded educational opportunities on the Aquarium’s website, updated interpretive panels focusing on global change, installation of a NOAA WeatherBug station, a civic engagement series, and professional development for Aquarium educators.","Hamilton County Department of Education, Hamilton County School District / Calvin Donaldson Environmental Science Academy, NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Morristown, TN Weather Forecast Office, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Natural Encounters, National Marine Sanctuary (NMS) / Flower Garden Banks"