Shannon Hesse of Cape Girardeau, a student at Southeast Missouri State University, participated in the 1994 Summer Marine Science Program at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs, Miss.
The laboratory, administered by the University of Southern Mississippi, offers field studies of plants and animals in their natural habitats as well as physical and chemical processes of marine and coastal environments.
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