Gulf of Mexico Alliance: Environmental Education Grant Recipients 2009

The Gulf of Mexico Alliance awarded $45,000 to each of the states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas to conduct outstanding environmental education projects. The Alliance Education Network awarded funding to seventeen projects – see the recipients below:

ALABAMA

• Alma Bryant High School – Bryant High School Oyster Gardening Project
• Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitor’s Bureau – Clean Coast Partnership Website
• Mobile Area Education Foundation – Exploring Sub-Watersheds within the Mobile Bay Area
• Weeks Bay Foundation – Watershed Wagon: A Rolling Watershed Education
• Wolf Bay Watershed Watch- Wonders of Wetlands (WOW)

(AL still received $45,000. There were more projects funded here since organizations requested smaller funding amounts.)

FLORIDA

• Florida A&M University Center for Water & Air Quality – Pilot Summer Program: Gulf of Mexico Stewardship & Conservation
• Sanibel Sea School – Podcasting from the Gulf of Mexico
• Santa Rosa County, Florida School District – Conservation through Education at the Navarre Beach Marine Science Station

LOUISIANA

• Audubon Nature Institute – Coast to Classroom
• Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries – Estuarine & Marine Lab Awareness Program
• Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium – Going Beyond the Bayou

MISSISSIPPI

• Jackson State University – Website for Aquatic Plants and their Habitats of the Mississippi Coast
• Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center of Arts & Education – Camp Leonardo: Where Science Meets Art!
• J.L. Scott Marine Education Center – Student and Community Outreach Symposia (SCOrs)

TEXAS

• Galveston Bay Foundation – Get Hip to Habitat
• Texas State Aquarium – Sunset Lake Invaders
• University of Texas Marine Science Institute – GK-12 Summer Field Science Program