GCRL opens new facility

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. - The University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Lab will soon open a new facility, the Marine Environmental Research Laboratory, at Cedar Point to study marine animals and their environment. About a dozen buildings are under construction or finished at the 200-acre site near the Gulf Islands National Seashore. Dr. Jeff Lotz, chairman of the Department of Coastal Sciences at GCRL, expects a ribbon-cutting in the fall. (Source: The Sun Herald, 04/20/09)