Marine Science Laboratory Opens

The University of Southern Mississippi has dedicated the new George A. Knauer Marine Science Building at the Stennis Space Center. The building features multimedia-enhanced classrooms and specially designed laboratories for the pursuit of education and research in biological, geological, and physical oceanography, marine chemistry and hydrography. The new facility also owns the distinction of being the first building constructed solely for higher education at the space centre. In addition to biological and geological oceanography labs, there will be specially designed marine chemistry labs with a clean room to accommodate the department’s high resolution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer used for trace chemical analysis. The department offers both master and doctoral degrees in marine science and a master’s degree in hydrographic science.