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" "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"