Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Ocean Interpretive Stations: A Pilot Program for Coastal America Coastal Ecosystem Learning Centers","Dubuque County Historical Society / National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium","2007: ELG for Free-choice Learning",2007,NA07SEC4690005,"$443,671","Jerry Enzler",Iowa,Dubuque,Dubuque,IA02,"42.49649, -90.66111","2007-10-01T00:00:00 - 2011-09-30T00:00:00","This project creates a pilot program to deliver ocean literacy learning opportunities to 7 million people across the country through installation of dynamic Ocean Interpretive Stations at five Coastal America Coastal Ecosystem Learning Centers: the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA; the J.L.Scott Marine Education Center in Ocean Springs, MS; the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, IL; the National Aquarium in Baltimore, MD; and the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium in Dubuque, IA. These Interpretive Stations present vital messages of ocean literacy to the broad public using and expanding on a proven product in a free choice learning environment in four key sites across the country. The pilot kiosks provide the regional stories of Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic, the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River watershed and the Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific. The Ocean Interpretive Stations enhance ocean literacy among museum goers through multimedia offerings, providing current, newsworthy and foundational ocean topics to encourage visitor learning. The project has the potential to be disseminated to 18 other Coastal Ecosystem Learning Centers throughout the United States, with the possibility of reaching over 25 million visitors. The project outcomes are: Increased awareness of ocean issues on the part of visitors; increased knowledge of regional ocean issues; increased capacity of sites to provide additional resources to teachers in the four regions; and encouragement of additional partnerships in the future.","Aquarium of the Pacific, John G. Shedd Aquarium / Shedd Aquarium, National Association for Interpretation (NAI)" "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"