Kerckhoff marine laboratory
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The William G. Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology
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The lab, located 101 Dahlia St., in Corona del Mar, CA, was established by biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan
in 1928 to replicate the facilities at the Stazione Zoologica
in Naples, Italy. It is one of the oldest marine laboratories on the U.S. West Coast. From 1962 until his death in 2002, Dr. Wheeler J. North
conducted numerous studies on the ecology of the California kelp forests while based at this laboratory. Current investigators include members of the Eric Davidson lab working on various marine biology related projects.
California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
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The lab, located 101 Dahlia St., in Corona del Mar, CA, was established by biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries relating the role the chromosome plays in heredity.Morgan received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in zoology...
in 1928 to replicate the facilities at the Stazione Zoologica
Stazione Zoologica
The Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn is a research institute in Naples, Italy, devoted to basic research in biology. Research is largely interdisciplinary involving the fields of evolution, biochemistry, molecular biology, neurobiology, cell biology, biological oceanography, marine botany, molecular...
in Naples, Italy. It is one of the oldest marine laboratories on the U.S. West Coast. From 1962 until his death in 2002, Dr. Wheeler J. North
Wheeler J. North
Wheeler J. North , born in San Francisco, California, was a marine biologist and environmental scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the California Institute of Technology...
conducted numerous studies on the ecology of the California kelp forests while based at this laboratory. Current investigators include members of the Eric Davidson lab working on various marine biology related projects.