Ballard got $2 mil for ocean exploration centre!

More than $2 million promised for ocean exploration center Oct 14, 04:22 NARRAGANSETT, R.I. (AP) - University of Rhode Island professor and marine explorer Robert Ballard has ecured more than two (m) million dollars in federal and private funding for a new center at the university.

The funding is for the Inner Space Center, which Ballard says will be the ocean exploration equivalent of the NASA command center for space exploration. The Inner Space Center is a component of the Undersea Exploration Center, which will be voted on as part of a bond referendum question in the November election. In the Inner Space Center, signals from research vessels will be transmitted to U-R-I's graduate school of oceanography. That way, students, faculty and researchers will have live access to oceanographic expeditions.

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