Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "CREATE Resilience: Community Resilience through Education, Art, Technology, and Engagement","Nurture Nature Center","2018: ELG for Community Resilience to Extreme Weather Events and Environmental Hazards",2018,NA18SEC0080005,"$429,420","Rachel Carr",Pennsylvania,Easton,Northampton,PA07,"40.69063, -75.21378","2018-10-01T00:00:00 - 2023-09-30T00:00:00","CREATE Resilience: Community Resilience through Education, Art, Technology and Engagement, is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between youth and community to 1) improve environmental hazards literacy, and 2) increase engagement in resiliency actions by youth and adult residents in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. CREATE Resilience is designed to increase community knowledge about weather and climate science, risks from local hazards, and strategies for hazard mitigation, while co-creating a vision for community resilience. Developed by Nurture Nature Center (NNC) in Easton, PA, the four-year project will work with local, state and federal partners in three hazard-prone communities in the Lehigh Valley (Easton, Bangor and Wilson areas). Hazards, particularly weather-related hazards including flooding, have had major impacts in these communities historically and recently, causing extensive damage to property and disruption to community services. Damaging river flooding along the Delaware River in 2004, 2005 and 2006 highlighted major planning and safety challenges for many municipalities in the area with high flood risk, and a recently updated regional Hazard Mitigation plan highlighted other hazards – as well as the need for public education about hazards and mitigation. CREATE Resilience’s advisory board will work with NNC to bring education and engagement events to teach the science of these hazards, as well the household and community-level strategies and tools available for resilience. Partners include the National Weather Service (NWS) Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center and Mt. Holly, NJ Weather Forecast Office, and Weather Prediction Center, as well as LV Planning Commission, Northampton County Emergency Management Agency, LV Community Foundation, Lafayette College, and FEMA Region 3 Mitigation Division. In years 1 and 2, the project will form CREATE Youth Ambassador teams, in which student interns from area high schools will meet NWS meteorologists, engage in community storytelling events, develop local hazard and resilience tours, and learn from climate and other scientists about hazards and strategies for resilience. Ambassadors will also develop and lead programming for community residents. Simultaneously, residents will participate in active-learning education events, dialogue forums, arts-based activities, technology-based programs using NOAA assets, and hands-on preparedness activities. Each community will build a collective understanding of local hazards and mitigation strategies, and co-create a vision for resilience, represented in traveling visual artist-designed murals in the third year of the project. This education and shared vision will build community support for planning and resilience and help households in making better preparedness decisions. Dissemination through Science on a Sphere® and guidebooks will share the replicable model with other organizations and communities, extending the reach of the project. Close cooperation with NWS offices helps the project meet key goals of NOAA’s Education Strategic Plan, related to safety/preparedness and a science-informed society. Through public events and print materials, the project will showcase and interpret NOAA-related science and data with area residents, while creating collaborative learning opportunities for youth and community to interact with NOAA scientists. CREATE Resilience also engages youth and adults in preparing for hazards, and in multi-generational learning to improve community awareness and involvement in preparedness and mitigation.","NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, City University of New York (CUNY) / Hunter College, NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) / National Centers for Environmental Prediction, NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO), Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast (CCRUN), NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Mount Holly, NJ Weather Forecast Office, NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) State College, Pennsylvania Forecast Office, Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, Lafayette College / Civil and Environmental Engineering, Easton Area School District, Wilson Area School District, Northampton County Emergency Management Services, Lehigh Valley Planning Commission, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) / Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center (RFC), Bangor Area School District, American Society of Civil Engineers / Lehigh Valley Section, Northampton County Conservation District, Northampton County Parks & Recreation Division, City of Easton, Martins-Jacoby Watershed Association, Borough of Wilson, PAZA, Tree of Life, Williams Township Municipal Building" "Empowering Climate Change Resiliency through Education in an Underserved Community","Ocean Discovery Institute","2018: ELG for Community Resilience to Extreme Weather Events and Environmental Hazards",2018,NA18SEC0080004,"$500,000","Lindsay Goodwin",California,"San Diego","San Diego",CA52,"32.79619, -117.22447","2018-10-01T00:00:00 - 2024-09-30T00:00:00","Understanding climate change and its exacerbating effects on local environmental phenomena (e.g., increase in frequency and/or intensity of drought, ocean acidification, water shortages, degraded fisheries) and how to create resiliency is critical for underserved communities as they are disproportionately impacted by these hazards and yet, have the least capacity to actively respond. To address this issue, Ocean Discovery Institute and its partners will build understanding of climate change and impacts on local hazards, human-nature interactions, and individual and community capacity for resilience through place-based education in the underserved community of City Heights, San Diego, CA. This project, titled “Empowering Climate Change Resiliency through Education in an Underserved Community,” will involve a wide range of partners, including California Sea Grant, the California Nevada Climate Applications Program, NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego Canyonlands, RECON Environmental, Inc., and the San Diego Unified Port District. Project activities encompass the design, piloting, and implementation of multi-grade level, integrated curricula that incorporate hands-on student climate science research, innovative solution building, and teacher professional development. This project will serve 1,500 middle school students annually and is expected to increase students’ understanding of scientific concepts and processes and human-nature interactions, improve their ability to make science-informed decisions, and contribute to local resilience efforts.","Birch Aquarium at Scripps, San Diego Unified School District, NOAA Research Lab / Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Sea Grant College Program / University of California at San Diego / California Sea Grant, City of San Diego, U.S. National Park Service / Cabrillo National Monument, Port of San Diego, RECON Environmental, San Diego Canyonlands, California Nevada Applications Program (CNAP), San Diego Unified School District / Clark Middle School, San Diego Unified School District / Wilson Middle School, UC San Diego / Scripps Institution of Oceanography"