USA: Maine Ocean Laboratory Receives Federal Grant for Oceanography Research

Maine ocean research laboratory is to receive more than $600,000 federal government grant.

National Science Foundation has provided the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Boothbay Harbor with $603,631 grant to carry out natural oceanography research.

The study will be conducted in the area of iron oxidizing germs.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950. NSF is the only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences.

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Subsea World News Staff , January 03 , 2012;