GCRL Post-Katrina

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After Hurricane Katrina
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
Ocean Springs, Mississippi

Hurricane Katrina's Aug. 29 storm surge tore through the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory campus, flooding all but one building. Many research, classroom and support buildings were lost, and all sustained damage.

August 30, 2005, photos by Dr. Patrick Biber, assistant professor of coastal sciences at the GCRL.

Anadromous Fish Building	Striped Bass Aquaculture
Botany	The vehicles floated out of the parking lot
More vehicles strewn about the complex	Research Building survived but surge flooded interior
Aquaculture greenhouse	Herbarium
Hopkins teaching labs destroyed by storm surge	Oceanography building high & fairly dry
Parasitology blown out by storm surge	Parking lot
Physical plant shop gone	Aquaculture
Front Entrance	Tanks and half tank
Toxicology building

 

The GCRL pier, amazingly only half destroyed

Waterline in Research Building is about two feet high

Toxicology building