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The Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies (HRI) [1] at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi [2] is the only marine research institute dedicated solely to advancing the long-term sustainable use and conservation of the world's ninth-largest body of water.
State Oceanic Administration, First Institute of Oceanography. FIO; State Oceanic Administration, Second Institute of Oceanography. SIO. [11] The University of Hong Kong's Swire Institute of Marine Science on the Cape d'Aguilar Peninsula on Hong Kong Island. SWIMS [12]
The award is part of the Cooperative Institute Program furthering regional and national interests in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. The institute is consistent with and expands upon the Memorandum of Agreement between MSU and NOAA, the NOAA notice of award to MSU of October 1, 2006, and the NOAA Cooperative Institute Interim Handbook.
Since the 1960s, the Florida Institute of Oceanography has unified marine science interests across Florida in the cause of understanding and stewardship of the coastal oceans. FIO has taken a leading national role in the scientific assessment of the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. [7] [8]
The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, [3] [4] mostly surrounded by the North American continent. [5] It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo; and on the ...
Gordon Pennington Gunter was born in Goldonna, Louisiana, on August 18, 1909. [2] [3] Arriving at Louisiana State Normal College in Natchitoches, Louisiana, [2] [3] with plans to study to become a lawyer or a French scholar, he instead took a strong interest in biology as soon as he took his first college course in the subject, [2] and he graduated in 1929 with a Bachelor of Arts in Zoology.
A woman in Washington, D.C., may call it one thing. A guy living off a main square in Mexico City might call it another. But a tug of war over referring to the immense body of water off the coast ...
Gulf of Mexico: Origin, Waters, and Biota. Gulf of Mexico: Origin, Waters, and Biota (Vol. 5, Chemical Oceanography) (published in 2019 by Texas A&M University Press) ISBN 978-1-62349-774-3; Deltas and Humans: A Long Relationship Now Threatened by Global Change. Oxford University Press. 2016. ISBN 978-0-19-976417-4. [9]