The National Science Foundation selected the Gulf-Caribbean Oceanographic Consortium, cooperatively led by The University of Southern Mississippi and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, to operate the R/V Gilbert R. Mason to expand research in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. Scientists will use the Mason to study environmental change, the global hydrologic cycle, biodiversity in the ocean, and more.
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