Oregon Institute of Marine Biology - Charleston, OR
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silverquill
N 43° 20.667 W 124° 19.700
10T E 392335 N 4799923
This unique school is part of the University of Oregon system, offering residential undergraduate degrees in Marine Biology, Masters and Doctoral Programs, summer internships, and advance research facilities with unique natural environments.
Waymark Code: WMB9FE
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 04/23/2011
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Here is a brief history from the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology:
"The University of Oregon has been teaching and conducting research in marine biology on the southern Oregon coast since 1924, when summer classes traveled to nearby Sunset Bay and used tents for dormitories and laboratories. In 1928-29, a portion of the Coos Head Military Reservation was selected as the permanent site for the University's marine program and in 1931 over 100 acres of the Reservation, including some Army Corps of Engineers buildings, was deeded to University of Oregon. These buildings became the first permanent classrooms, laboratories and dormitories.
In 1937, the Oregon State System of Higher Education shifted stewardship of OIMB to Oregon State University (then Oregon State College) until the Second World War, when the site was reclaimed by the federal government for strategic purposes. After the war, OIMB was returned, first to Oregon State College, then in 1955 to the University of Oregon. Until the mid-1960's, the facility served as a summer field station.
In 1966, the University undertook a two-year program of extensive building repairs and began using the marine station as a permanent, year-round research facility. A few years later, year-round educational programs were added to the existing summer teaching program. These teaching programs, as well as the research mission, continue to the present day.
In 1985, OIMB added new teaching laboratories, research facilities and dormitories with a major grant from the federal government. In 1999, OIMB celebrated the construction of two additional research laboratories as well as the Loyd and Dorothy Rippey Library. An additional program of building renovation is currently in progress."
This small campus is located in the picturesque Charleston marine basin adjacent to the Coos Bay U.S. Coast Guard Station. The natural marine environment of the southern Oregon coast, linking with such facilities as the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve nearby offering unprecedented environments for education and research in a living laboratory seldom duplicated anywhere.