PUBLICATIONS ISSUED: 



Puhlicaciones del Instituto Antartico Argenlhio (sci- 

 entific reports or monographs) 



Conlribiic'tones del Instituto Antartico Argentiito 

 (short papers) 



Recopilacioii de las Contr'tbuciones del Instituto 

 Antartico Argentina (collected contributions) 



Boletin del Instituto Antartico Argentina (regularly 

 published journal for the general public) 



Instituto de B'lologia Marina de Mar del Plata 



MAR DEL PLATA MARINE BIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE 



POSTAL address: Playa Grande, Mar del Plata, Argen- 

 tina. 



EXECUTIVE officer: Director has not been appointed. 



SPONSORING agencies: Facultad de Ciencias Naturales 

 y Museo de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata y 

 Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales de la Uni- 

 versidad Nacional de Buenos Aires (Faculty of Natu- 

 ral Sciences and Museum of the National University 

 of La Plata and the Faculty of Exact and Natural 

 Sciences of the National University of Buenos Aires). 



YEAR FOUNDED: I960. 



scope of activities: Unrestricted research on fish- 

 eries, general marine biology, plankton and coastal 

 ecology; graduate and undergraduate instruction. 



SEASON of OPERATION: All year. 



PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: South Atlantic 

 Ocean, Albufera Mar Chiquita, Lagunas de Los 

 Padres and La Brava, (eutrophic lakes), Rio (River) 

 Quequen Grande; sandy and silty beaches, brackish 

 shallow bays and mountain creeks. 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Research and 

 living space for 6 visitors; no fees charged for re- 

 search space. 



MAJOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING FACILITIES: Small 



library; running sea and fresh-water, small aquarium 

 tanks, all under construction; research and identified 

 reference collection of sponges, coelenterates, mol- 

 lusks, echinoderms, annelids, fishes and marine algae 

 available at the Museo de La Plata; skilled shop work- 

 man available ; vessels available from the Navy and 

 from fishermen. 



INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM: General zoology, inverte- 

 brate zoology, vertebrate zoology, comparative anat- 

 omy of vertebrates, animal ecology, zoogeography, 

 plant systematics (cryptogams), plant anatomy and 

 morphology, physiological botany and ecological 

 botany. 



SIZE OF staff: Five at professional level ; 2 technicians. 



MAJOR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC 

 LEADERS: 



Fisheries investigations (Francisco Gneri, Victor 

 Angelescu and Alberto Nani) 



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INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA MARINA DE MAR DEL PLATA 



Zooplankton (Santiago R. Olivier) 

 Phytoplankton (Sebastian A. Guarrera) 

 Marine algae (Rhodophyceae) (Isabel Kreibhon) 

 Carcinological studies (Eduardo E. Boschi) 

 PUBLICATIONS ISSUED: Revista de la Estacion de Biol- 

 ogia Marina de Alar del Plata (journal to be regularly 

 published) 



Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Division 

 Biolo^ia Animal, Laboratorio de Limnologia 



NATIONAL UNIVERSITY' OF LA PLATA. DIVISION OF 

 ANIMAL BIOLOGY, LIMNOLOGICAL LABORATORY 



POSTAL ADDRESS: Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque, 

 La Plata, Argentina. 



EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Santiago Raul Olivier, Jefe de 

 la Division. 



SPONSORING agency: Facultad de Ciencias Naturales 

 y Museo de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata 

 (Faculty of Natural Sciences and Museum of the 

 National University of La Plata) . 



YEAR founded: 1952. 



SCOPE of ACTIVITIES: Unrestricted research on the 

 general limnology, plankton and ecology of the lakes 

 of the Province of Buenos Aires; graduate and under- 

 graduate instruction. 



SEASON OF OPERATION: All year. 



PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: Rios (Rivers) 

 de la Plata and Parana, Chascomus Lake System, 

 Laguna (Lake) de Monte; estuarine conditions and 

 eutrophic lakes. 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Space for 8 vis- 

 itors ; no fees charged ; living quarters available nearby. 



MAJOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING FACILITIES: Very ex- 

 tensive library with moderately complete limnological 

 section; small aquarium tanks; research collection of 

 microfauna (cladocerans, copepods and rotifers), 

 Insecta, Crustacea, Pisces, Amphibia, Aves, aquatic 



