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Project Medusa In The Context Of Its Historical Time, John H. Costello, Sean Colin, William M. Graham, John O. Dabiri, Adam Benović, Davor Lučić, Vladimir Onofri, Mira Morović, Alenka Malej, Valentina Turk, Vesna Flander-Puterle, Hermes Mianzan, Gustavo Alvarez Colombo, Marcelo E. Acha

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

In 2000, the National Science Foundation, in union with Croatian and Slovenian science ministries, provided initial support for the international collaboration that has become Meduza project. The program was started with the goal of international collaboration. Our initial objective was simple - use this international collaboration to develop exiting scientific research involving medusae in Southern Adriatic waters. This international collaborationa has been of great importance personally and professionally to all of the investigators and institutions involved in the project, but we now ask what objective difference has the project made scientifically. We approach this question by comparing what we might …