Marine scientist gets USM award

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. - Dr. Robin Overstreet, marine parasitologist at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory and professor in the Department of Coastal Sciences, received The University of Southern Mississippi's Innovation Lifetime Achievement Award. Overstreet is recognized as a world authority on fish parasites and disease, and is credited with the discovery of hundreds of new species. He joined GCRL in 1969. (Source: University of Southern Mississippi, 11/17/08)