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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA MARINE INSTITU 1 1- 



Doboy Sound ; sandy and silty beaches, estuarine condi- 

 tions, brackish, shallow bays, rivers and streams, salt 

 marshes, fresh-water ponds, and cypress swamps. 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Research and liv- 

 ing space for 3 visitors; a modest charge is made for 

 use of facilities. 



MAJOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING FACILITIES: Small li- 

 brary; running sea water, small aquarium tanks; re- 

 search and identified reference collections of local 

 invertebrate animals; machine and wood shop; small 

 boats and outboard motors ; 65 ft LOA, M/V Kit 

 ]ones. 



INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM: Courses otfered at Univer- 

 sity of Georgia with field work at Sapelo Island: in- 

 vertebrate zoology, marine biology, ecology, fisheries 

 biology, and ichthyology. Facilities are also available 

 to other visiting class groups. 



SIZE OF STAFF: Seven at professional level; 4 techni- 

 cians. 



SPECIES AVAILABLE FOR LABORATORY 



IMPORTANT 

 STUDIES: 



Anthozoa: 

 Crustacea : 

 Gastropoda 

 Pelecypoda : 

 Asteroidea: 



Renilla reniformis 



Uca pugnax, U. pugiliator, U. mi/hix 



Liltorina irrorata 



Moi/iolous demisstts 

 Luidia dathrata 



MAJOR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC 

 LEADERS: 



The cycle of phosphorus in natural waters (Lawrence 



R. Pomeroy) 

 Energy flow in the salt marsh ecasystem (Eugene P. 



Odum) 

 Near-shore sediments, ecology, and environments 



(John H. Hoyt) 



Macrobenthos-sediment relationships (Dirk Franken- 



berg) 

 Coastal processes; marsh and lagoonal sediments 



(Vernon J. Henry) 

 Sediment geochemistry and diagensis (Orrin H. 



Pilkey) 

 Physiology of salt marsh holophytes (Kenneth L. 



Webb) 



University of Miami Marine Laboratory 



POSTAL ADDRESS: 1, Rickenbacker Causeway, Virginia 



Key, Miami 49, Florida, USA. 

 EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Dr. F. G. Walton Smith, Director. 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1943. 



SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES: Restricted and unrestricted re- 

 search in all fields of marine science including meteor- 

 ology; graduate and undergraduate instruction. 



SEASON OF OPERATION: All year. 



PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: Straits of Flor- 

 ida, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea ; open ocean, coral 

 reef, and tropical Atlantic. 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Space for 25 visi- 

 tors; fees charged; living quarters available at the 

 laboratory and nearby. 



MAJOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING FACILITIES: Very ex- 

 tensive library, running sea and fresh-water, small 

 aquarium tanks; research and identified reference col- 

 lections of tropical Atlantic fauna and flora; machine 

 and wood shop, electrical and electronic shop, skilled 

 shop workmen available; small boats and outboard 

 motors; vessels, 80 ft, 75 ft, 60 ft and 45 ft LOA; 

 two shipboard laboratories. 



INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM: Year-round instruction in 

 cooperation with Department of Zoology, University 

 of Miami; plankton, biological, chemical and physical 

 oceanography, ecology, general and comparative physi- 

 ology, biochemistry, embryology, microbiology, phycol- 

 ogy, general invertebrate zoology, ichthyology, marine 



UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MARINE LABORATORY 



