New GCRL director named

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. -- Dr. Eric Powell will become the new director of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, according to the University of Southern Mississippi, beginning in September. Powell is currently a professor at the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory at the School of Environmental and Biological Science at Rutgers University. Powell replaces Dr. Bill Hawkins, who retired June 2011. Hawkins led the GCRL’s expansion, which now includes 16 buildings at the lab’s 224-acre Cedar Point expansion site in Ocean Springs. (Source: University of Southern Mississippi, 06/12/12)