New England Aquarium

The New England Aquarium will coordinate a collaboration of five aquariums to provide their educators with specialized training, materials, and tools to increase public awareness of ocean change. Twelve interpreters will work in teams to develop and test a "train the trainer" model for exploring the challenging issues of sea level rise, elevated water temperatures, acidification, and resulting threats to sea life and habitat with visitors in fun, informative, and relevant ways. By the end of the three-year project, over 200 interpreters will be trained, a toolkit will be developed for use with visitors, and a model training program will be refined for adaptation by other aquariums. The partners are the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution, and the Aquarium of the Pacific in California.