GCRL opens new building

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. – The first new building at the Gulf Coast Research Lab since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 is now open. State, local and educational leaders were on hand to celebrate the opening of the new $1.2 million Field Studies Building. Field Studies is one of the major missions of the lab that was established in the late 1940s by the Institutes for Higher Learning. It now belongs to the University of Southern Mississippi. (Source: Sun Herald, 05/27/13)