was substantially expanded for Phase II with the admission of Canada, China and Japan, though India left the consortium at this time. Nevertheless, at the start of Phase II the MWA had expanded to 21 partner organisations across 6 countries and had a membership of 270 individual scientists. The expansion of the collaboration was largely the work of the then MWA Board Chair (Jan 2014 – Jan 2018) and current MWA director, Melanie Johnston-Hollitt. The MWA Project is composed of the following project partners as of 2018: Curtin University (Lead Organization) Australian National University Brown University CSIRO Kagoshima University Kumamoto University Nagoya University NAOJ Shanghai Astronomical Observatory Swinburne University of Technology Tohoku University University of California, Berkeley/Breakthrough Listen University of Melbourne University of Sydney University of Toronto University of Tokyo University of Washington University of Western Australia University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Victoria University of Wellington Western Sydney University Funding for the MWA to date has been provided by partner institutions and by allocations from national funding agencies: the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development (now the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment), the US National Science Foundation, the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Australian National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) administered by Astronomy Australia Ltd., and the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund Overview (AISRF). In addition, support for the MWA compute hardware was given through an IBM Shared University Research Grant awarded to Victoria University of Wellington and Curtin University (PIs: Johnston-Hollitt and Tingay). See also List of astronomical observatories LOFAR References External links Radio telescopes Astronomical observatories in Western Australia Harvard University Square Kilometre Array Shire of Murchison Interferometric telescopes