HRI BUILDING DESIGN
The $18 million HRI building was designed by
Richter Architects of Corpus Christi and
Watkins Hamilton
Ross of Houston. The 57,000-square-foot
facility houses offices, labs and meeting rooms for HRI researchers and selected
TAMUCC College of Science and Technology (S&T)
faculty researchers focusing on the Gulf of Mexico. The building was
first occupied in November 2005.
PHOTO GALLERY
LABORATORIES
The new HRI building
includes 12 research laboratories
which are used by HRI's endowed faculty,
HRI's faculty research associates and TAMUCC's College of Science and Technology.
WET LABS
- benthic ecology
- fish physiology & ecology
- ocean & human health
- fisheries & mariculture
- biodiversity
- instrumental analysis
- fish systematics
- environmental geochemistry
SEA WATER SYSTEM LABS
- one at HRI and one S&T
ECOSYSTEM MODELING LAB
- one at HRI
MEETING ROOMS
The HRI offers a variety of meeting venues, from its spacious
multipurpose conference room to smaller conference rooms and breakout
rooms.
HRI 127 Multipurpose Conference Center:
- auditorium seating, seats 200
- workshop seating, seats 110
- board room seating/U-shape, seats 30
- banquet seating, seats 80
Smaller Rooms:
- Executive conference room (HRI 318B, seats 18)
- Zachry conference room (HRI 122A, seats 6)
- Breakout rooms: two on 2nd floor and two on 3rd floor.
Each seats four people.
BOATS AND RESEARCH EQUIPMENT
HRI leases larger boats and ships for
offshore Gulf of Mexico expeditions but it has its own vehicles and
outboard boats with trailers.
FACILITIES
