University of Southern Mississippi Marine Research Center

About this grant

This project will support infrastructure benefitting ecological resources by upgrading the newly built University of Southern Mississippi (USM) Marine Research Center, which is an existing public facility at the Mississippi State Port at Gulfport. The USM Marine Research Center is a two-story, 18,000 square foot state of the art building which was built to support marine research and education activities, and along with the University’s oceanographic research vessel, the Point Sur, supports Mississippi’s efforts to grow the maritime technology industry.