OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — Gulf Coast Research Lab has opened its new $1.9 million Field Studies building.
The ceremony was held Tuesday in Ocean Springs.
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The 8,400 square foot facility features classrooms and labs. It will be used to teach visiting college students who are enrolled in GCRL’s popular summer field program.
GCRL officials say a record 156 students from 25 states are enrolled this summer in the marine education program.
Officials say universities in land-locked states like Minnesota or Arkansas send their marine science students here for time on the water.
The lab can house, feed and teach them a semester’s worth of class work in a summer.
Field Studies is one of the major missions of the lab that was established in the late 1940s.
