Applicant: stroud water research center, INC

Stroud Water Research Center, Inc. will receive $400,000 in federal funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Chesapeake Bay Studies program (CFDA 11.457) from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024.

Through this Cooperative Agreement award, Stroud Water Research Center will establish regional hubs and liaisons to distribute environmental literacy and meaningful watershed educational experience professional development across Pennsylvania. Standardized processes and resources will be developed and refined to strengthen networks and enhance communication strategies to sustain efforts toward implementing meaningful watershed educational experiences in all Pennsylvania school districts. The work supported by this award will further the Chesapeake Bay Studies program's goal of providing information for the living marine resources of Chesapeake Bay through watershed education and training initiatives.

Title: building sustainable and equitable capacity support systems towards environmental literacy for all K-12 audiences across pennsylvania overview: the pennsylvania environmental literacy and meaningful watershed educational experience (PA elit/mwee) capacity building efforts have progressed to the next phase which necessitates a restructured organizational flow. Regional hubs and liaisons along with the standardized processes and resources to distribute elit and mwee professional development will be established and refined as structures and processes to strengthen networks and enhance communication strategies to sustain efforts toward the vision of systemic mwee implementation in all pennsylvania school districts.