The new lab will allow researchers to see how marine organisms respond to multiple changes in environmental conditions at the same time.
A Dauphin Island bunker designed to house a generator for a military outpost has begun a new life as a source of cutting-edge science on the Gulf of Mexico.
Conditions that can be changed and monitored in the lab’s tanks include oxygen level, acidity, salinity and temperature. “What we do with our resources really matters. We’re always forced to rely on data that’s coming either from the East Coast or the West Coast, and we seldom have data that comes from the Gulf Coast, and our ocean is much different than those two oceans and so this is totally relevant to us,” said Valentine.
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