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University of Puerto Rico, Institute of Marine 

 Biology 



POSTAL address: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. 

 location: On island near La Parguera. 

 EXECUTIVE officers: Dr. Juan A. Rivero, Director. 

 Dr. John E. Randall, Director of Research. 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1954. 



scope of activities: Unrestricted in general marine 

 biology, systematics, plankton and ecology; graduate 

 and undergraduate instruction. 



season of operation: All year. 



physical environment accessible: Caribbean Sea, 

 Bahia Fosforecente (Phosphorescent Bay), Bahia 

 Boqueron, Laguna Joyuda; estuarine conditions, coral 

 reefs, and mangrove swamps. 



provisions for visiting scientists: Research and liv- 

 ing space for 2-4 visitors; no fees charged for research 

 space; dormitory rooms, $2 per day. 



major research and teaching facilities: Small 

 library; running sea and fresh-water, small aquarium 

 tanks, large aquatic pens; identified reference collec- 

 tions of echinoderms, sponges, gastropods, pelecypods, 

 horny corals, stony corals and other coelenterata, fishes, 

 some annelids, and crustaceans (copepods) ; machine 

 and wood shop, electrical and electronic shop (at Uni- 

 versity Campus); small boats and outboard motors; 

 vessels, 65 ft LOA, Carile, 27 ft LOA, Pelicaiio, 18 ft 

 LOA, Physalia. 



instructional program : Marine ecology (summer) . 

 SIZE OF staff: Seven at professional level. 

 important species available for laboratory 

 studies: 

 Coelenterata: Cassiopeia xamacbana, Aurelia aurita 

 Tunicata: Ascidia nigra, Ecteinascidia tiirbinata 

 Echinodermata: Oreaster retiadatiis, Ophioconia 

 ecbinata, Diadema antillarum, Tripneustes esctilentus 



MAJOR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC 



leaders: 

 Copepods of Puerto Rico (Juan G. Gonzalez and 



Thomas E. Bowman) 

 Coral reef and mangrove algae of southwestern Puerto 



Rico (LuisR. Almodovar) 



INSTITUTE OF MARINE BIOLOGY, MAYAGUEZ 



Antibiotics of algae (Paul Burkholder) 



Comparative study of voices of the Antillean frogs of 



genus Elentherodactylus (Juan A. Rivero) 

 Sponges of La Parguera (Willard Hartman) 

 Productivity of Puerto Rican seas (Juan G. Gonzalez) 

 Classification and biology of West Indian fishes (John 



E. Randall) 

 Coral reef ecology (Peter Glynn) 

 Ecology of agar-producing red algae and their 



epiphytes (Manuel Diaz Piferrer) 

 Biology of West Indian topshell {Citlari/nii pica) 



(Helen A. Randall) 

 Classification of Caribbean mollusks (Germaine L. 



Warmke) 



University of Texas, Institute of Marine Science 



POSTAL address: Pork Aransas, Texas, USA. /O 



executive officer: Dr. Howard T. Odum, Director. 



YEAR founded: 1941. 



scope of activities: Unrestricted basic marine re- 

 search ; graduate instruction. 



season of operation: All year. 



PHYSICAL environment ACCESSIBLE: Gulf of Mexico, 

 Laguna Madre, Bays Corpus Christi, Aransas, and 

 Redfish; sandy beaches, estuarine conditions, brackish, 

 shallow bays, grass flats, rock jetties, hypersaline bays, 

 and oyster reefs. 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Research and liv- 

 ing space for those interested in functional processes of 

 environments or those with local residences; no fees 

 charged for research space. 



MAJOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING FACILITIES: Moder- 

 ately complete library; running sea and fresh-water, 

 large outdoor ponds and tanks under construction, 

 small aquarium tanks; identified reference collections 

 of fishes, invertebrates and small herbarium; machine 

 and wood shop, skilled shop workman available; small 

 boats and outboard motors; vessels, two 18 ft LOA 

 cruisers and trailers, 42 ft LOA, M/V Ciencia. 



INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM: Biological oceanography, 

 advanced invertebrate zoology, marine chemistry, 

 marine geology, marine bacteriology, general marine 

 science, and marine botany. 



SIZE OF STAFF: Six at professional level ; 22 predoctoral 

 and employed graduate students. 



IMPORTANT SPECIES AVAILABLE FOR LABORATORY 



STUDIES : Stress is placed on understanding functional 

 processes in environmental sciences and not with em- 

 phasis on individual organisms. 



MAJOR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC 



leaders: 

 Metabolism of ecological microcosms (H, T. Odum 



and Robert J. Beyers) 

 Metabolism of marine bays of Texas (H. T. Odum) 

 Study of marine blue green algae (C. Van Baalen) 

 Distribution of marine fishes (J. C. Briggs) 



