The University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL), the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR) and Aqua Green LLC are partnering to produce popular recreational fish such as spotted sea trout, red snapper, and cobia for release into Mississippi waters. The group released hundreds of red snapper fingerlings onto an offshore artificial reef on January 24, 2013. WLOX Video 
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The new Aquatic Science Laboratory at Bel-Aire Elementary School in Gulfport makes hands-on learning available to students in discovering and learning about the creatures and habitats of our Gulf Coast region. The facility is the only one of its kind in the Harrison County School District. It was made possible by donation of approximately $10,000 worth of equipment from the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory’s Marine Education Center and a $5,500 grant from the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR).
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GCRL's Center for Plant Restoration (CPR) is responding to a growing need for practical information and local plant sources for coastal resoration projects. The Center is acting as a catalyst to encourage local private coastal plant nursery businesses and assure that suitable plant stocks are available for restoration projects on the Mississippi Coast. To accomplish this, the Center is creating a scientific knowledge base and information exchange hub for growers, restoration teams, and decision makers. The effort is particularly important in light of the anticipated increase in demand for plants for restoration projects in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Read more

Corey Russo
Corey is a Ph.D. candidate in Marine Microbiology at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory with Dr. Jay Grimes as his advisor. Now, Corey is on a yearlong internship working with Dr. Karen Nelson, the President of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Rockville, Maryland. He is engaged in a viromics project to collect clinical/environmental samples, isolate viral particles and viral nucleic acid, generate viral amplicon, and sequence complete viral genomes. The end product be viruses already identified within the collected samples. Many novel viruses will be also be recovered, sequenced, and identified.  Read more