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Doug Meffert (LF ’08) leads research center in hydrokinetic power

Loeb Fellowship alumnus Doug Meffert is on a mission to end the southeastern United States’ reliance on fossil-fuel energy from the Gulf of Mexico.
According to a recent article in The New York Times, the professor of bioenvironmental research at Tulane University hopes to harness hydrokinetic power to “turn the region from a consumer of fossil fuels into a producer of renewable energy and, one day, an exporter of that energy.” Read the full article.
 

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