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        2013 Climate Change Education Principal Investigators Meeting | 
       
      
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        October 7, 2013 
          Arlington, Virginia 
  The 2013 Climate Change Education Principal Investigators Meeting,  sponsored by the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation (NMFS), was held at the Renaissance  Arlington Capital View Hotel in Arlington, Virginia on October 7-9, 2013. Under the NASA Innovations in  Climate Education (NICE) program, Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) has joined  with the University of New Hampshire (UNH) in developing the program: “Engaging Minority University STEM Education  Professors in the Science of Climate Change”. This program is designed to  empower faculty of education programs at Minority Serving Institutions to  better engage their pre-service teachers in teaching and learning about global  climate change through the use of NASA Earth observation sets.  Dr. Darnell Johnson of ECSU and Dr. Steven Hale of UNH serve as Project  Coordinators for this NASA NICE project. Three members from the second year  cohort of Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) presented a poster  on the 2013 summer workshop. These members were Kaiem Frink,  Mathematics-Virginia Union, Sheryl Bradford, Biology and Ervin Howard, Educational  Technology-ECSU.   
            The Climate Change Education Principal Investigators Meeting  served as a working meeting of principal investigators and other key personnel  of climate change education projects currently or recently funded by NASA, NOAA,  and NSF. The purpose of this jointly held meeting was to facilitate synergy and  collaboration among project partners as well as with other external networks to  expand their projects' impacts and leverage results. This was the third such  meeting and it focused on providing grant recipients with information on  current climate change science findings, how communities are responding to  those findings, and how projects can be scaled up and sustained. Additionally,  the scientists, educators, and evaluators represented approximately 120 climate  change education projects that shared information about their projects' impacts  and lessons learned.
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