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Louisiana State University 
Baton Rouge 5, Louisiana 
Louisiana State University does not offer courses in marine 
science at its Baton Rouge campus. Summer courses in marine 
biology at Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Ocean Springs, 
Mississippi, are offered to LSU students. 
Coastal Studies Institute 
The Coastal Studies Institute is not an academic department. 
Its research activities are oriented toward geographic, geologic, 
biologic, and ecologic basic investigations in various parts of 
the world. To a very limited extent advanced graduate students 
may be provided field experience necessary for doctoral degrees 
in academic departments. Areas of interest are likely to start 
in water no more than 5 fathoms deep and to extend inland only 
as far as land may be characterized as "'coastal."' More detailed 
information may be obtained from the Director, Coastal Studies 
Institute, LSU, Baton Roge 3, Louisiana. 
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