Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "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"