Project Grant 00905001

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) supports the Sierra Streams Institute, a nonprofit organization in California, to implement an environmental education initiative. The key activities include: Developing a Watershed Communication Toolkit (WCT) to enhance students' critical thinking and science literacy by facilitating communication between peers on regional watershed issues. The WCT will...

This $210,656 federal Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) supports Sequoia Riverlands Trust, a nonprofit organization, to implement an environmental education and community engagement program in Visalia, California. The project will design, demonstrate, and disseminate educational practices, methods, and techniques to increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors among...

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 awarded a $133,333 Project Grant to Earth Team A California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951). The grant will fund environmental education activities in Richmond, CA from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2023. Specifically, Earth Team will educate K-12 students and teachers about their local watershed through hands-on restoration projects, field trips, and youth leadership programs. They will...

The Salinas Union High School District Community Science & Outdoor Learning Collaborative will receive $199,680 under a one-year Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Marine Sanctuary Program (CFDA #11.429). The collaborative partnership between the district's educational services team, Bird School Project, and Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History will create and implement annual multi-week educator seminars and ongoing outdoor learning and...

This two-year, $298,908 project grant from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will fund the Cascade Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group to deliver meaningful watershed educational experiences and curriculum integration for all 5th grade students in the East Wenatchee, Washington school district. The goal is to increase authentic, locally relevant science education and student-led stewardship actions to improve local watersheds and recover imperiled salmon...

This $100,000 Project Grant was awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) to support a 2-year project from the Center for the Force Majeure Foundation. The project will engage 15-20 high school students in an intergenerational model to examine how hydrology and fire-adapted landscapes respond to the reintroduction of intentional fire in the Tahoe Basin region. Key activities include field trips, measurement and...

This $200,000 Project Grant award under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951), administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9, supports a 2-year project led by the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to train and support up to 90 teachers in 4 California counties to improve environmental problem-solving skills and natural resource management for up to 8,000 K-12 students. Key activities include developing and delivering a week-long summer...

The Sausalito Marin City School District received a $3,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Geographic Programs - San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund (CFDA 66.126). The funding will support the design, permitting, and construction of a 600-foot daylighted, vegetated perennial creek channel, as well as the installation of green infrastructure stormwater management features on the Martin Luther King Jr. Academy's Nevada Campus. The project also...

This $185,061 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to investigate the use of web-based virtual field trips to improve student learning and spatial communication abilities. The 54-month project, led by the University of Missouri in collaboration with Arizona State University, will develop an "iVISIT" virtual field trip platform to deliver multi-user, synchronous, situated learning experiences. The project seeks to...

This federal Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $498,331.00, was provided by the Bureau of Reclamation under the Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557). The purpose of the grant is to advance the understanding of the ecohydrological impacts of watershed restoration treatments in the upper Stanislaus and Tuolumne River basins in California. The key activities to be performed under this grant include leveraging existing data and science to quantify the combined impacts of...