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   - [Megan] I really
   appreciate the opportunity
  to have my own
  individual research
working on-one-one with
the professor here.
  - [Cole] We were just
  dissecting some fish today.
 We also will sometimes
 go out in the field,
either trawling for fish species
 or seine netting
 along the beachfront.
 - [Bob] Because we're
 only 15 minutes away,
   they can come out here, do
   a couple hours of research
  if that's what fits
  into their schedule
  and go back and do classes.
  - Primarily undergraduate
  students will come out here
  during their junior
  and senior years.
   Undergraduates do
   definitely get the
  opportunity to go
  out onto the water.
Our proximity here to Charleston
Harbor and to the ocean
  I think is what
  makes us very unique
in that we can be on the water,
  we can be in the estuary,
  we can be in a tidal creek,
  we can be in the open ocean
  within 10 or 15 minutes.
- [Erik] The fact that
we can do molecular work
cellular work all within
a stone's throw of where
those organisms actually
came from is essential
 to the kind of work
 that we do in our lab.
   - [Gorka] My research
   program is centered around
 behavioral ecology of fishes.
  - I'm looking at
  predator/prey relationships
  when the prey is not eaten.
 - [Bob] Students in my
 laboratory work on early life
 history stages of
 marine invertebrates.
  - [Nicole] I've dug hundreds
  and hundreds of worms
 for my experiments at
 four in the morning.
- [Eric] Virtually every
faculty member at Grice
 brings in undergraduates from
 the College of Charleston
to do research, not
just during the summers,
  but also year-round.
- [Pete] Various tanks
of shapes and sizes that
  researchers and students
  can use for their projects.
  There's a large sea urchin
  project going on right now.
   And we can vary salinities
   and temperatures
  on all the different tanks.
- [Bob] We work with four
other partners at Fort Johnson.
 The advantage of having these
 agencies working together
is that they all pursue
very different kinds of
scientific questions
and have very different
 kinds of scientific cultures.
   So if a student chooses,
   he or she can get involved
  in one of these
  other laboratories,
  take advantage of that
  opportunity to do a kind of
 science that they
 might be interested in
   and also make the contacts
   that are necessary
  to move on in those fields.
- [Erik] I fell in love
with the soft sediment
   and marsh habitats
   of the southeast.
  When I did my post-doc work
  at Harvard and at Stanford
I always had in the
back of my thought that
  I wanted to be back
  in the southeast.
 And I've always wanted
 to be at a marine lab.
 I really was attracted to
 Charleston as a place to live,
  and attracted to the College
  of Charleston which has
   an outstanding graduate
   program in Marine Biology.
 - [Nicole] What I
 love most about Grice,
 what's so great about
 Grice is there's just
  such a fantastic community.
 And so I have such an
 excellent support system with
my lab group but also
other graduate students
 and the other
 faculty here at Grice
  and then the support staff.
  - [Pete] There's always
  opportunities for the bright
   and the motivated student
   out here especially.
 And to get your name out
 there as soon as you get here,
   get to know your
   professors, ask questions
   and get your name
   known so that when
 a research opportunity
 does come up
an independent research project
  or a professor
  needs help in a lab,
 you're already known.
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