THE BATTALION
Thursday, September 16, 1965
College Station, Texas
Page 3
Maritime Laboratory Class Termed Unique
A&M’s
Seaside School Initiated
ON DING’S TAIL
Student assistant Anita Sievers of Galveston and Dr. Sam
my Ray, Marine Laboratory head, examines flasks con
taining dinoflagellates, a family of organisms which can
be toxic to valuable fish. They also can contaminate
oysters, which then become a public health problem.
Texas A&M’s Marine Labora
tory in Galveston conducted its
first regular classes of instruc
tion this summer.
The facility, quartered in one
of historic Fort Crockett’s re
modeled buildings, has been de
voted entirely to research since
its establishment in 1958. But
now courses are being offered by
the university’s Wildlife Science
Department, Biology Department
and the Institute of Statistics.
A&M also has another unit at
the fort — the Texas Maritime
Academy. In the same complex
of buildings is the U. S. Bureau
of Commercial Fisheries Labora
tory, which makes its facilities
available to the Marine Labora
tory.
Dr. Richard J. Baldauf, who
supervises courses offered by the
Department of Wildlife Sciences,
said instruction was added to the
research activity at the labora
tory to put students closer to
their subjects. Classrooms look
over the greenish-blue Gulf of
Mexico where sports and com-
merical fishing are major enter
prises.
Dr. R. C. Potts, assistant di
rector of instruction in the Col
lege of Agriculture, and Dr.
CHARTER BOAT
This chartered shrimp trawler, Gus III, car- the Gulf of Mexico this summer. The Bu
ried technical staff of the U. S. Bureau of reau is concentrating on studies of the life
Commercial Fisheries and A&M Marine history and effects of water quality on
Laboratory students on research trips into shrimp.
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Sammy Ray, head of the Marine
Laboratory, believe the program
is unique. They praised the co
operation of the Bureau of Com-
merical Fisheries.
“There is nothing like this lab
and teaching service is the whole
western Gulf area,” Ray said
“The lab is serving as a marine
outlet for all colleges and univer
sities in this area, and I think the
system is better than each insti
tution trying to set up and oper
ate its own marine lab.’
He said that in addition to
A&M, students were enrolled
from Southern Methodist Univer
sity, University of Texas, Univer
sity of Houston and from several
out-of-state schools this summer.
One of those students was a
celebrity — Phyllis Johnson of
Galveston, also known as Miss
Texas in the 1965 Miss Universe
Contest.
Potts described the research
and teaching program as “break
ing new ground in the education
al field with help of the Bureau
of Commercial Fisheries.”
Milton J. Lindner, who heads
the Bureau, said the help and
cooperation is coming from both
sides in the arrangement.
Baldauf said 27 graduate and
advanced undergraduate students
were enrolled in the first six
weeks summer session and 20 the
second six weeks. Most of them
took a minimum of six hours of
instruction. Fifteen were in wild
life science and 12 in biology.
Courses taught were marine ich
thyology, population dynamics,
and advanced invertebrate zoolo
gy-
instruction during the second
summer term concentrated on
statistics, molluscan biology and
research problems. Undergradu
ate students had the opportunity
to conduct research with guid
ance of the Bureau of Commercial
Fisheries technical staff. Equip
ment included the Bureau’s char
tered shrimp trawler.
Students were almost constant
ly exposed to research, which is
and will remain the Marine Lab
oratory’s main purpose. Many
studies are underway, but the
following are the major projects.
(1) A study of toxic dinoflag
ellates, a group of organisms
which kill valuable fish. One of
the organisms causes the well
known red tide off the west coast
of Florida.
Dinoflagellates also can be a
public health problem. They
sometimes infect oysters, which
are then toxic to humans when
eaten.
(2) Studies of effects of vari
ous antibiotics on Dermocystid-
ium marinun, a fungus parasite
of oysters in the Gulf of Mexico.
The antibiotics are used for con
trol work in the laboratory.
(3) Investigations of the ef
fect of water quality on the snail
vector of schistosomaisis, a trop
ical disease of humans. The snail
is the host for a fluke which
causes the ailment.
(4) Studies on an oyster mal
ady known as Malpeque Bay dis
ease.
Regular courses at the Marine
Laboratory are offered only in
the summer.
Special non-credit extension
work will be given this fall and
spring.
FISH STORY
Student Lloyd Dean Koen of San Angelo discusses fish that
didn’t get away with Dr. Richard J. Baldauf of the Depart
ment of Wildlife Science. Koen is majoring in wildlife
science with a fisheries biology option.
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