by MBJ Staff Published: November 16,2012
Tags: Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Thomas McIlwain, University of Southern Mississippi
Thomas D. McIlwain, a longtime marine biologist, fishery scientist and educator in Mississippi, has died after a three-year battle with cancer. He was 71. McIlwain had a 50-year career in marine biology and spend most of his time at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs. He was the lab director from 1989 to [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: June 25,2012
Tags: Eric Powell, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Ocean Springs, University of Southern Mississippi
Dr. Eric Powell will become the new director of the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL) in Ocean Springs. Powell is currently a professor at the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory, located at the School of Environmental and Biological Science at Rutgers University. Previously serving as director of the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: February 26,2012
Tags: Fisheries, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Pascagoula, Thad Cochran Marine Aquaculture Center, University of Southern Mississippi
The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory has honored former longtime marine fisheries scientist Tom McIlwain with an endowed chair in the Department of Coastal Sciences. Officials say McIlwain was a key figure in fisheries management. A native of Pascagoula, McIlwain earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Southern Mississippi. His doctorate was in [...] [...]
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