Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "NOAA Earth System Science Courses: Building on the Earth System Science Education Alliance (ESSEA)","Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)","2008/2009: ELG for Formal K-12 Education",2009,NA09SEC4690011,"$645,815","Robert Myers",Virginia,Arlington,Arlington,VA08,"38.8943, -77.07719","2009-09-01T00:00:00 - 2012-08-31T00:00:00","The Earth System Science Education Alliance (ESSEA) is a successful teacher professional development program enhancing K-12 teachers' environmental literacy and ability to teach Earth System Science. The ESSEA 40+ educational institution consortium is supporting universities and other educational institutions in teacher preparation and professional development for pre-service and in-service K-12 teachers. This NOAA-funded project enhances and builds on this foundation by: 1) Using the ESSEA online courses as a model to introduce newly upgraded Earth system science undergraduate and graduate courses for teachers; 2) Introducing new Earth System Science data, analysis tools and educational resources to support the teacher courses; and 3) Disseminating model teaching practices and program success through annual conferences, continuing support, and presentations at geoscience and education conferences.","Birch Aquarium at Scripps, Texas A&M University at College Station, University of Maine / Ocean Systems Central Office School of Marine Sciences (COSEE)" "Visualizing Change: Training and Tools to Support Informal Educators","New England Aquarium Corporation / New England Aquarium (NEAq)","2013: ELG for Building Capacity of Informal and Formal Educators",2013,NA13SEC0080010,"$518,066","William ""Billy"" Spitzer",Massachusetts,Boston,Suffolk,MA08,"42.35914, -71.04977","2013-10-01T00:00:00 - 2017-09-30T00:00:00","A consortium of Aquarium of the Pacific, National Aquarium in Baltimore, New England Aquarium and Seattle Aquarium will build educator capacity in the aquarium community and informal science education field to more effectively communicate about climate change and its impact on coastal zones and marine life. The project will utilize NOAA datasets and visualizations in providing interpreters with training and strategic framing communication tools based on the best available social and cognitive research. The objectives of the project are to: (1) develop and test four exemplary interpretive “visual narratives” that integrate research-based strategic communication with NOAA data visualization resources; (2) test the application of the visual narratives in a variety of geographic regions and institution types (aquarium, science center, etc.) using multiple technology platforms; (3) build a professional development program for climate change interpretation with data visualization; and (4) leverage existing networks for dissemination and peer support. Other key partners include the NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory (VisLab), the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL), the Exploratorium in San Francisco, the Ocean Explorium in southern Massachusetts, and FrameWorks Institute.","Aquarium of the Pacific, Exploratorium, Monterey Bay Aquarium, National Aquarium / National Aquarium In Baltimore (NAIB), Science Museum of Minnesota, Seattle Aquarium, Buttonwood Park Zoological Society, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)"