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The University of Georgia 
Athens, Georgia 
MARINE INSTITUTE 
The university of Georgia Marine Institute, located at Sapelo 
Island, Georgia, is operated by the University. in cooperation 
with the Sapelo Island Research Foundation. Laboratory 
facilities include radioisotope counting and handling equipment, 
spectrophotometers, constant-temperature rooms, running 
estuarine water, chromatographic equipment, and library. The 
65-foot research vessel, Kit Jones, is equipped with both 
hydrographic and trawling winches, loran naviagtion, sonic 
sounding, and interior laboratory space. It can accomodate 
four scientists for work along the coast and over the conti- 
nental shelf. 
Research now in progress at the Marine Institute includes the 
following. Studies of near-shore sedimentation processes. Geology 
of the continental shelf. Geochemistry of carbonate sediments. 
Flow of energy and elements through the ecosystems of the salt 
marsh, estuaries, and continental shelf waters. Relation of level- 
bottom communities to sediments. Translocation of materials in 
halophytic plants, Collection and processing of organisms for 
studies of the biochemistry of bioluminescence. Collection of 
organisms for studies of microbial metabolism of uronic acids. 
Collection of organisms for a study collection of the regional 
fauna and flora. 
Staff: 
Dirk Frankenberg, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Zoology 
Vernon J. Henry, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Geology 
John H. Hoyt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Geology 
Orrin Pilkey, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Geology 
Lawrence R. Pomeroy, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Zoology 
Kenneth L. Webb, Ph.D. Assistnat Professor of Botany 
Associated members of the University faculty not members of the 
staff of the Marine Institute: 
Milton J. Cormier, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Chemistry 
Leon S, Dure, Ph.D. Research Assistant 
Robert G. Eagon, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Bacteriology © 
Eugene P, Odum, Ph.D, Alumni Foundation Distinguished 
Professor of Zoology 
William J. Payne, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Bacteriology and 
Head of the Department of Bacteriology 
Donald C. Scott, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Zoology and Chair- 
man, Marine Institute Advisory Board 
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