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The Research Consortia funded are: Lead Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute. Lead Institution: Texas A&M University at College Station. Lead Institution: Florida State University. Lead Institution: Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Lead Investigator: Edward J. Buskey, Ph.D.
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Boston University. Stanford University. University of Wisconsin, Madison. West Virginia University. Georgia Tech Research Corporation. University of Connecticut. University of Maryland. The projects include: ?. Topic Area 1: Electrochemical Performance Enhancement Activity.
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University of Alabama. University of North Dakota. North Carolina State University. Oregon State University. Georgia Institute of Technology. University of Cincinnati. University of Maryland - College Park. Princeton University. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Project title.
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Jeffrey Dangl, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Katrien Devos, University of Georgia, Athens. Yiwei Jiang, Purdue University. Ray Ming, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Reddy, Colorado State University. Matias Kirst, University of Florida, Gainesville. DOE-BER funded project.
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