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" "Ocean Sciences Curriculum Sequence for Grades 3-5","Lawrence Hall of Science","2007: ELG for Formal K-12 Education",2007,NA07SEC4690003,"$720,641","Craig Strang",California,Berkeley,Alameda,CA12,"37.87921, -122.24652","2007-10-01T00:00:00 - 2010-09-30T00:00:00","In close collaboration and partnership, the Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) at the University of California, Berkeley, the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, the Coastal Ocean Observation Laboratory (COOL), Rutgers University Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences, and the Carolina Biological Supply Company will update, adapt, transform, and widely disseminate existing instructional materials from the LHS Marine Activities Resources & Education (MARE) and Great Explorations in Mathematics and Sciences (GEMS) programs. The materials will provide teachers with a standards-based tool for teaching basic science using the ocean as a compelling integrating context. The materials will be grounded in current research on teaching and learning and designed to connect to the Ocean Literacy Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts, and national and state science standards. The activities will be thoroughly pilot and field tested to ensure their effectiveness and applicability nationwide. The finished product will include print materials for teachers, with inquiry-based learning activities, student readings and data sheets, curriculum-embedded assessments, and commercially available materials kits that will allow the Sequence to be adopted by whole school systems and/or states (see http://www.lhsgems.org/CurriculumSequences.htm).","National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) Jacques Cousteau, Rutgers University"