The US Department of the Interior has provided a US$50,000 grant to help fund a design contest for a planned marine research and educational centre in St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands.
The most recent grant, signed last week by assistant secretary of the Interior for Insular Areas Tony Babauta, is just a portion of the more than $2 million the office has granted the project.
“The Marine Research and Educational Center is a visionary project that will provide the people of St. Croix, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the region a world-class facility for students, scientists and the public to learn about our coral reefs,” Babauta said in a prepared statement.
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{Karl Knight, an adviser with the governor’s office] said the center is expected to have labs, classrooms, dormitories, an auditorium and a boat dock. One of the new initiatives is to have the center run on electricity generated by water and wind .“As I understand it,” Knight said, “the consortium wants this to be a state-of-the-art green facility.”
Read more at the Virgin Islands Daily News.
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