Project Grant NA21NMF0080519

The Malama Honua Public Charter School Foundation will deliver outdoor education experiences and watershed education curriculum development under a $125,000 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Project Grant awarded on August 1, 2021. Funded through NOAA's Office for Coastal Management under the Coastal Zone Management Act, the project will engage K-6 students in 100 experiential learning opportunities in the Waimānalo watershed in Hawaii. Teachers and community partners 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 Project Grant award, provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the NOAA Mission-Related Education Awards program (CFDA 11.008), aims to ensure that rural teachers and students have access to a high-quality, local watershed curriculum to increase their environmental literacy. The $202,000 award to the Pontchartrain Conservancy, a non-profit organization in Metairie, Louisiana, will fund the FLOW (Fostering Literacy in our Watersheds) project over a two-year...

This Project Grant award of $137,172.00 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Ocean Acidification Program (CFDA 11.017) will provide 250 underrepresented 6th grade science students in Redwood City, California with a comprehensive 21-hour program to learn about their local watershed's connection to the ocean and the impacts of coastal and ocean acidification. The program will include 6 in-class lab experiments, water-based field activities such as stream studies and...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), supports a four-year collaborative research project to develop and implement a justice-centered water literacy curriculum for students in grades 3-8 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Working with a network of public charter schools and a steering committee of local community organizations, the research team will engage approximately 16 teachers and 640 students to create curriculum units that...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the NOAA Mission-Related Education Awards program (CFDA 11.008), provides $300,000.00 to the Ripple Effect Water Literacy Project to expand and enhance their existing Puddles to Floods Summer Institute (P2F) program. The key objectives are to: (1) extend the reach of P2F by offering aligned Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEEs) during the school year, (2) design and deliver...

This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Marine Sanctuary Program (CFDA 11.429) provides $199,907 to the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative in Lowell, Michigan. The project, titled "Advancing K-12 Environmental Literacy through Place-Based Stewardship Education (PBSE) in Michigan and the Great Lakes Region", aims to build capacity for increased statewide environmental literacy through PBSE and climate change education. The key...

This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Ocean Acidification Program (CFDA 11.017) provides $100,000 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to engage tribal and underserved communities in rural Alaska. The project will leverage the 4-H network to provide place-based, hands-on education to elementary and middle school students on ocean acidification and local impacts to marine resources and seafood supply. The project will integrate OA...

The Ocean Ecology Network Inc. was awarded a $402,000 project grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Unallied Science Program (CFDA 11.472) to coordinate, develop and implement sea turtle research and conservation initiatives in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2023. As part of the NOAA Unallied Science Program, which provides grants for biological, socio-economic and physical science research on fishery 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...