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" "Exploring Inner Space: Linking Aquariums with Ocean Scientists","Sea Research Foundation / Mystic Aquarium","2009: Ocean Education Grants for AZA Aquariums",2009,NA09SEC4690043,"$1,799,964","Dwight Coleman",Connecticut,Mystic,"New London",CT02,"41.37327, -71.95316","2009-12-31T23:00:00 - 2014-12-30T23:00:00","This program is a pilot project and collaborative effort to develop partnerships and educational programming using state of the art technology. The project partnership is comprised of a leading ocean science research and education institution, the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography and its new state of the art Inner Space Center (ISC), and two strong national ocean science education networks: the National Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) Network and NOAA's Office of Exploration and Research (NOAA-OER) Education Alliance. In addition, two partner sites will serve as proof of concept sites and education hubs - Mystic Aquarium and Institute for Exploration (CT) and South Carolina Aquarium (SC), both affiliated with COSEE, the Coastal Ecosystem Learning Center Network (CELC), and NOAA-OER. Through this initiative, the ISC will install new Exploration Command Stations (ECSs) and enhance Ocean Today kiosks at the partner sites, strategically selected aquariums. Through this pilot project, the ECSs and kiosks (modeled after the original Ocean Today kiosk in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History’s Sant Ocean Hall) will form an Ocean Interpretive Station at the partner sites. The ISC will provide live links from the Center's facilities to the newly installed ECSs and kiosks using feeds from various remote Ocean Exploration platforms, including the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer and the exploration vessel, E/V Nautilus. The project's Content Development Team (CDT) will develop associated educational materials for use in public programs at the partner sites.","Oregon State University (OSU) / Hatfield Marine Science Center, Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science / Alaska SeaLife Center, Coastal Ecosystem Learning Center (CELC) Network, Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL), University of Rhode Island (URI) / Inner Space Center (ISC), South Carolina Aquarium"