Experiment.com campaign wrap-up

Well, friends, the crowdfunding campaign for our oil spill cleanup project is over, and we didn’t meet our funding goal. We want to thank you once again for all your support, although, following the “all or nothing” model of Experiment.com, we won’t receive any funding for our project at this time. However, here are some great things we DID gain from this experience:

– Several student volunteers eager to get involved in research and excited about working on the project

– In-kind donations of equipment from colleagues

– Promising leads on new potential funding sources for this project

– Technical suggestions from experts

– New ideas for outreach and ways to communicate our research ideas to the public, especially those most directly affected by the environmental problems our work addresses

We’re still passionate about this project and we’ll continue to pursue this idea. Keep updated on this and our other research projects here on our website, and by following us on Twitter (@vfmcneill and @McNeillGroup)

Much love,

Faye, Mark, and Christina