University of Southern California
USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences  
 

The University of Southern California's marine laboratory

(Wrigley Marine Science Center)

is located on Catalina Island, in the Pacific Ocean.

Catalina lab

 

 

 

The Marine Culture Room at the marine laboratory on Catalina Island.

Each larval culture vessel shown is 200 liters.

Culture room

 

Hybrid oysters from our studies of physiological indicators of "fast growth" (hybrid vigor, growth heterosis).