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)" "Building Environmental Literacy: How the Ocean Community Can Connect More Effectively With the American Public","Ocean Foundation / The Ocean Project","2007: ELG for Free-choice Learning",2007,NA07SEC4690007,"$375,100","William Mott","District of Columbia",Washington,"District of Columbia",DC00,"38.90543, -77.04676","2007-10-01T00:00:00 - 2010-09-30T00:00:00","In 1999, The Ocean Project completed a comprehensive opinion research on public attitudes, perceptions, and knowledge of the ocean ever conducted. The research identified a broad vacuum in public understanding of the ocean; a fundamental issue of ocean literacy. To further increase effectiveness in building ocean literacy, this project updates and expands The Ocean Project's research to create a more highly detailed database of public awareness, knowledge, and attitudes about the ocean and the impact of climate change on the ocean. It develops recommendations to enable free-choice learning educators to improve the ocean and climate literacy of their visitors. The study includes a comprehensive review of existing literature, qualitative and quantitative research, analysis of the data, and publication and broad dissemination, including recommendations for programs and content that build ocean and climate literacy. The work done by The Ocean Project is helping the ocean education community better understand the motivations, psychology, and emotions behind segments of the public's attitudes toward the ocean. These data are essential as the institutions, agencies and organizations of the ocean community work together and independently to engage people, inform decision-makers, and enhance ocean and climate literacy throughout the Nation.","California Academy of Sciences, Monterey Bay Aquarium, National Aquarium / National Aquarium In Baltimore (NAIB), Tennessee Aquarium, Texas State Aquarium, NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, John Ball Zoological Garden, Antioch University New England"